On Monday morning, Benny and I flew to Tokyo for a weeklong trip. He is attending a work conference and I'm sightseeing during the day. Today was my first day out and about and luckily I went with another Navy wife, so I wasn't alone.
We spent the day at Ueno Park, where they have the beautiful cherry blossoms. Unfortunately the blossom season ends in early April, lasts only a few days, so we missed it. There were two trees with blossoms left on them and they were so pretty. Everyone took their picture next to these trees.
I also visited the Tokyo National Museum where I saw a special exhibit on the history of Buddha statues. It was so interesting, but the museum was very crowded. I learned a lot about Japan in the few hours I was there, but I also have a million more questions about this country, its history and culture, but no one to ask. I plan to start reading as much as I can get my hands about this place.
The highlight of the day was eating a green tea ice cream cone. I spilled some on my T-shirt and now have a green tea stain on the front of it.
I would post pictures of all these adventures, but we don't have Internet service in our room and I have to use a community computer to post this message. I'm hoping to find a hip Internet cafe with free access by the end of the week, so you all can witness my first trip to Japan's capital city.
Until then, dream of cherry blossoms for me.
3 comments:
How exciting! Can't wait to see the pictures. Your adventure sounds like so much fun Michelle (hard to believe it's not just a trip, huh?)
How are the navy wives there? Anyone else get there when you did? Any fellow Iowans.
Can't wait for pics! So cool!
of course you spilled ice cream on your shirt! I knew that was going to happen before you wrote it, because that's something I would do.
I have cherry blossom pictures from Seattle, just have to find them.....
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