Tokyo con Bree a la Clara Day 3

Clara woke up at 5:30am. Awesome. I finished mama mia with her in the other room while Bree stayed in bed. Clara goes down for her nap at 7:30am. We're in no rush to get an early start to day after yesterday. Bree decides to walk to the lawson's or family mart for a razor.

She leaves. She comes back.

"I can't leave without you."

Ah crap. Fortunately teh front desk was able to help us out. They also had a bit of a free breakfast which was nice. Bagels and toast and schmear and liquids to drink.

We take the train to a station near Hama Rikyu Garden. While walking to the garden we stop in a big building with lots of eateries in it and get some food to go so we can picnic in the garden. We make it to the garden adn I take clara out of the backpack and she manages to get her pants covered in dirt and food in 2 minutes nd 18 seconds (practically).

I got her a sandwich but it was a waste of 340 yen because she just ate the egg drops in my egg drop soup and the tofu chunks and the tofu chinks out of Bree's rice bowl.

WE walked around the gardens which had some really awesome big, old trees. Not as many flowers as the imperial one (I'll give it that) but I really liked all the big old trees with fresh spring leaves on them. We also saw a wedding couple (He was white, she was Japanese and they were both in traditional wedding kimonos which were very pretty). Then we took the 1:35om ferry up the Sumida River to Asakusa.

Once we get off hte ferry i don't recognize ANYTHING. Tyler navigated last time and I guess I paid negative amounts of attention. We get to a signal and ask a lady next to us for SenSoji Shrine or Nakamise Dori and she points us in the right direction. But we hit it perpendicular instead of head on. But it didn't matter because the temple is undergoing cleaning or renovation or something so it was all covered. We crossed Nakamise Dori and went around so we could come back up it the full length (or most of hte length) leading towards the temple. Bree bought some fans and I bought a green parasol because Clara was starting t to get a little sun.

A woman took our picture (but really a picture of Clara) and I took a picture of a group of High School boys laughing their heads off in front of the gate. I took a picture (lots, actually) of Bree trying to tie the paper to the rail. We have no idea what it means or what its for, but it was mostly just to cover our Karmic basis. Unfortunately she ended up almost breaking the thing and taking down a bunch of other tied on papers, but she didn't. But it was close. I'm sure hte karma gods were just laughing at us.

We hung out around a pigeon memorial off to the side then decided to head back before rush hour. It wasn't so bad even though we hit the train at 4pm and had a 30 minute ride back to Roppongi station.

We had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe (I know I know, but I only packed so much food for clara). It was CRAZY expensive! But pretty good. Especially since Bree bought and she let me get a Fudge Sundae (which was really really good). ON the walk back home Clara fell asleep in the carrier again while I was wheeling her around.

Bree Rocked the Tokyo navigation and got us safely back to the hotel. I totally would have never been able to cross this stupid huge street we needed to cross. Bree found a way and also some teeny side street that was the right direction! I broke down and asked a random guy herding people into a taxi where Hardy Barracks was, and I literally had to turn my head around and it was right there. So she totally did it. It was awesome.






Here's bree getting the "praryr scroll" or whatever it is (we still have no idea--she just put 100yen in the box and picked a drawer)






Here she accidentally pulls the stick out of the holder when she tied on her prayer strip






and she got distracted so she ripped her prayer strip in half while tieing it on so she had ot pick it up then tie on half a prayer strip (yes, I am laughing at her right now but still taking pictures)



Then she had to put the wire back in the holder so she didn't leave it broken : )









Clara passed out in the stroller/backpack but US IN front of Hardy Barracks at day's end! Woo hoo!!