So, I was going to write yesterday I was going to write about what we did that night, but when we got back I was so exausted I just flkopped in bed and went to sleep. So, now it is Sunday morning and I am writing!
So... Lets see, before we met Yuri, mom and I went wondering around. We found a shop that sells wird things for medicine and stuff, dead animals, herbs, rocks, and stuff, wandered inside and mom bought the first thing of this whole trip!! A little dead sea horse for \200!!! How cute!!!
I also bought a 2 dollar apple to eat. Fruit is VERY expensive!!!
Then at 10 we met Yuri at Azuma bridge which is 2 minutes from where we are staying. We walked over to the Kamonarimon, which has a huge buddhist temple. The whole area was filled with shops and crammed with people. LOTS of poeple! We wondered around. Her mom(Yoko) bought everyone a Japanese sweet, which was more like a slightly bitter cracker. We wondered in and out of shops filled with very overpriced items. Mom bought post cards. Eventually I bought some stuff, but I`m not telling you what it is mwahaha!!!
We also went into the temple. Through some money in this thing and then you make a prayer. Before that you go over to this thing that has lots of insense sticks burning, and you wave the smoke ito your face. Its to make you beautiful or something. It smelled really good.
Yuri is 16, her brother is 9. He was really cute. Really shy and quiet but still really polite.
We then went to eat okonomiyaki. It was so cool. We went into this small building, up some stairs. They asked us to take off our shoes and then we were led over to a low table that had a flat grill/pan thing built into the table. At first I thought you had to sit on the ground with your legs under you, but a actually there is a hole under the table where you can put them. After ordering, a lady brought over maybe 5 bowls of mixures of different foods. They weren`t mixed up thuogh, just all set in a bowl together. One was like, a raw egg, corn, wheat flower, and the main food, cabbage. The lady turned on the grill thing and then left. After a while, her mom took the first bowl and mixed it up and poured it on the grill. Then we all took a metal spachula and mixed it around and spread it out. After a little while we all took these tiny tiny little spachulas that we all had, and you would scrape a peice of the batter up press it on the grill until it was crisp and would stick to the spatchula and then flip it over and eat it. (I hope that made sense : ) I was really bad at it.
Then Yuri and her mom mixed up he other two bowls and each one poured it into a panacake. Then they put sauce on it, bonito flakes, and nori flakes. Then we let it sit till the other side got crisp. Then her mom took two of the big spatchulas and fliped it over. Yuri did it wth the other one, but hers fell apart.
After those coked we cut them up, and then put a peice on everyones plate , and ate it with chopsticks. Then They made me and mom mix up a bowl pour it out, put the stuff on it and flip it over. Mom did hers perfect and mine fell apart some. What the heck!!
After this they watched some of our videos of home, and then we headed out to the subway! Duhdudhu!!!! I`ve never been down a subway before. We went down 5 flights of stairs.
We took that to a train station, took the train to another station, took that train station to.... HARAJUKU!!!!!! Fashion paradise!! And, dad, stop complaining about walmart!!! I didn`t take too many pictures, but mom got video. It was crammed. There is one street filled with clothes shop after clothes shop. It was crammed with people. We actaully did a good job of not losing each other. I really wanted to go into a lolita shop, so we went up in one of them. It was very pink and bright. They had different styles, gothic, country, punk, but most of it was sweet Lolita, so it was very bright. Well, I coulkdn`t resist myself... I couldn`t buy a hundred dollar dress, so I got something else... and nope, I`m not telling you what it is!!! You`ll jut have to wait until I wear it!!! Actually Yuri bought it for me as a present.
Then I stoped in a shoe store and bought a pair of shoes. I could`nt buy shoes so I bought the next best thing. They were a little big, They only had 3 sizes, small, medium and large. I was a small, and it was still to big. What`s with that?! They were \2000 ($20) Mom doesn`t really like them, but Tearah, you will. When I got to Kobe with Tomoko, I will proably buy a dress. They only reason I didn`t this time, is beacuse we ran out of time. We also got a Blue berry crepe. Very yummy. Then at abvout 4 we headed back.
Oh, ya!!! We haven`t had to get pushed onto a train yet, but we came pretty close to it on the way to Harajuku. Yuri`s mom, did shove me on it a little when I hesitated though. You didn`t have to grab onto anything to balance, Just lean on the nearest person!
We got back to Asakusa at around 5. Sat at a small temple right buy the hostel and gave them their presents. It was really nice, and my favorite thing so far. I loved shopping! And while things are expensive, they are so cute it is totally worth it!!
After that, my feet were killing me. We decided ot walk to the \100 shop.. Took us a while to find it. But once we got there MOM went crazy and started buying everything in sight!!!
It was a really great day! Today we are going to hang out with Saki!
Mom says Hi!
Cheyanne, could you call the cousin`s and get there address? Also, can you make sure they have this blog? Thanks!!
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