Tokyo con Bree a la Clara Day 2

So, the train station is about a 30 minute walk at my pace with Clara on my back. Lets just start out the day with that. A 30 minute walk to the train station at 8:30 in the morning.

We get to Ginza and try to Matsuya department store but it doesn't open until 10am and it was only 9:15 or so. So bree looks at the map and says

"Well it looks like we can just walk to the Imperial Garden from here."

I think to myself "no, we shouldn't do that." yet heard myself say, "Sure. Ok."

THREE HOURS LATER!!! WE find the freaking garden!! I was so over it. Stupid Imperial Garden. You can't even see the palace from the garden (that I could tell, and Frommer's corroborates this) but wahtever. Her map was crap and I should have spoken up. BUt it eventually became the principle of hte thing-we WILL Find the garden! We WILL make it to the Imperial East Garden!!

We were faked out a few times before we reached it, but we eventually made it. With the help of a not so crazy Japanese man who found us an English Speaking "Tokyo Tourism" person to help us, and a lot of complaining (at least for my part) we did make it. We also had a pit stop at a fountain park. And took teh subway ALL THE WAY BACK.

Clara fell asleep for about an hour (before we hit hte fountain park but during another really nice walk through an equally nice park that was not the imperial garden). I took her off my back and wheeled her forwards until she fell asleep then I pulled her behind me becuase it was easier on me. One we hit hte garden she was awake and she walked aroudn a bit. Fed her some raviolis while we sat on a bench. Showed her the fish off hte bridge, showed her the flowers, she picked them then trhew them on the floor.

We stopped for some food for us at the train station on teh way abck and it was rediculously hot curry! Whoa! So hot! Bree thought it was fine but I was having some issues. The ladies all thoguht clara was adorable, but I was glad bree was there to help wrangle her. We put her between us on teh bench with all our gear on the seats opposite us at the table.

We took teh train abck to the Ginza shopping district and walked around Matsuya for 10 mintues, didn't find what bree was looking for, went to the bathroom, got some groceries from teh basement shop, then tok the train abck to Roppongi station and walked to HB about 3:30pm.

We ate some dinner from what we bought at Matsuya (or the grocery store on the bottom floor of Matsuya--Clara enjoyed the Apple). Clara peed 3 times on the floor and pooped all over my suitcase (it was gross, not only ebcuase it was on my suitcase and she got some appendages in it, but becuasei t was basically an entire can of mandarin oranges that she had for breakfast that morning). Clean up was surprisingly easy though, after the "AHHH!!! WHAT?! You pooped ON my suitcase?!"

I put clara down to bed and Bree and I started watching Mama Mia but went to bed at 8:40 bcuase we were both exhausted from all the walking.

The phone rings at 9:40pm. I bolt up in teh pitch dark and think "WAHT?! What's goign on?! What's happened?! Is someone injured?! Who could be calling at this hour? ITs what, 2, 3 am? This must be seirous! where's the phone? WHY IS IT SO LOUD?!"

I get out of bed, stumble around hte bed, stumble to the other nightstand (Which is right by bree's head) and fumble to find the shaking mass that is the ringing phone (Again, right by bree's head) and pick it up

"hellO!?!"
"Uh. . .this is front gate. Yoru pass expired."
"What?"
"Uh, you visitors pass, expired. You need to come sign again."
"What?"
"Pass only good for 24 hours. So Pleasse come sign it again."
"Oh, oh. Um. . .she's sleeping."
"Oh"
"Can I sign it for her?"
"Um, ok."
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute"

I hang up the phone after a few tries (its still dark) and go to turn on the light. Bree wakes up (or at least admits she's awake now"

"Where are my shoes?"
"Why? What's going on?"
"your pass expired. I guessi ts only good for 24 hours so I have to sign again."
"Oh. Do you want me to go?"
>pause< "Yeah" "ok"

So, after that minor interruption, we slept very well for the remainder of the night.

BUt seriously, it felt like they were calling at 2am. We were SO tired from all the ridiculous walking that day.