-Japan has lots of sushi. In Tokyo we went to this restaurant where they would put little plates of sushi on this thing that would circle them around and after it had circled them about a half an hour, they would take them off.
-On either side of the temple there would be big guardian deities.
Watching the puppet show...
-In Takayama we went to a puppet show and a puppet made me a scroll that said "dream" first in English and second in Japanese.
-"Arigato" means thank you. "Doy tashi ma-shi tea" means you are welcome. "Konichi-wa" means hello. "Hi" means yes. "Doe-zo" means go ahead.
In the cedars on the Tokkaido highway (samurai trail)-We walked on a samurai trail when we were at the Fujiya hotel.
-Tokugawa Ieyasu was a very famous samurai and the first shogun on Japan. Samurai are special Japanese warriors.
Showing off their chopstick skills!
-I learned how to use chopsticks.
-Before we go in a jacuzzi or a bath, we usually have to wash off.
-They had vending machines all over the place.
-Whenever you wanted to go on a train, it was only a couple of blocks away. The trains are really, really fast.
-Mount Fuji is the biggest mountain in all of Japan.
-When we were walking down an alleyway towards our apartment, we ran into a geisha, a special kind of Japanese girl. Her housing mother was nice and let us take a picture with her. A housing mother is a person who helps take care of the geisha.
-We went to the Tokyo Disneyland on Emma's birthday.
-I wrote two haiku which are special Japanese poems.
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