The next day was Senso-Ji and Nakamise shopping street. It was about a 5 minute walk to where we were staying, so that was a nice commute. We started at Senso-Ji and Grandma called, so Grandpa gave her a tour. It was very cute and started a cute trend of calling during some of the stuff that Grandpa wanted to show Grandma. I have several pictures of Grandpa with his phone out at arms length. They are mostly pictures of a quick Grandma tour. We found out as we got to the grounds that we just happened to be there when they were going to be doing a special celebration with a dragon show. We toured around the grounds and then found a good vantage point to watch the show. After that, we tried octopus balls and found a good lunch spot down a side alley. Then we shopped the rest of the day. Mostly in a shopping street specifically for tourists, then I went to rest after dinner while everyone that wanted to found the nerdy anime/game/train stores. I hand washed a few clothes and tried to lay them out to dry in the apartment. It reminded me why you need sun to dry clothes in humid places.
Train boys looking at trains.
They needed a bathroom, so they got a quick treat so they could be customers. Sam found out quickly that you don't freely use bathrooms without being a customer. He wanted to wash his hands and disappeared for a minute... he was stopped by a man that told him, "You no use toilet in Japan." We had to explain to Sam that we needed to be paying customers to use the bathrooms unless they were public ones. Grandpa said that it was going to be a long trip for Sam not being able to use any toilets in Japan and holding it til we went home.... hehehe.
This was our first experience with cream filled mochi. We were hooked.
I reached up to get a picture of the street exactly when Ada did. I thought that was pretty funny so I thought I'd include the picture here too.
After the dragon show, they allowed people to come touch it if they wanted. I think all of us got a chance to sneak between the crowd and touch this beautiful puppet.
Sam was absolutely amazed by the Japanese flutes. They're made out of bamboo and are really neat.
You can see the incense.
Octopus ball. Evelyn and I liked them.... everyone was only so so on them.
Seth got bit by some mosquitos at the park the day before and developed an allergic reaction. His arm was swollen and hot to touch. Grandpa had some Benadryl and we gladly gave some to Seth for about two days. We kept Sam's 2 epi pens handy too.... just in case it was needed.
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