Yesterday night after getting back from Inet cafe, i had my first vending machine dinner, the place I went to looked like a traditional diner but when you order you select your meal from a vending machine, then hand your ticket to the coutner, shortly after your meal is delivered to you.
Today as predicted by a random street entertainer it started raining all day, what was funny to me personally was that all the millions of people that ride bikes around here were doing the same thing today but holding umbrellas at the same time!! and i:m surprised at the number of old people that ride bikes around here, where do they get the energy from?? must be from all the cheap food you can get anywhere…
We were going to go temple hop:ing today but we postponed because of the rain, and when it rains here it rains and dosn:t stop, but its not to bad that you have to not go anywhere just annoying because you are already wearing so many layers of clothes that you need to put another rain coat layer on top. finally gpantrip should be working good from now on, it has been moved on to a new machine which is working but knowing the laws of science that it wont last for long. Today to stay out of the rain we went to a Kyoto crafts store, which was 7 floors high and had everything from traditional Japanese swords to all the oldest fans, paintings and clothes, bayon spent his weekly budget in a little over 2 hours. on Friday we are heading to the ryokan which i can:t wait for and don:t expect to be in contact until we leave there for Osaka… I will leave you know with some pictures, i have many more stories but not enough time to share them now.
This is Bayon on a panda….
This is the hotel at Kyoto with checkin girl in photo (everyone we ask to be in photos does peace sign)
This is the guy that predicted the rain… he also did bayons name in JAP….
This is at the airport at our first of many vending machines… (i thought it was kit kats in some kind of drink form, i was disapointed to find out it was a glass jar with about 5-6 mini kit kats :( )
This is us in Tokyo somewhere…
This is us at some random food place….