Relaxing pushed to Today.

Woke up this morning and was talking with Grace. We decided that since we have to change rooms tomorrow we probably should make today relax day so that there isn't that 7 hours period of homelessness while they clean stuff and we have no room.

Another thing we entertained ourselves with this morning was the fact that we both decided the greatest discovery we have made here is the existence of sweat towels. They really are useful little buggers.

Hello Kitty so cute!


All this morning it was basically nothing but reading and laying around. We did end up taking showers and then we just lay down again to read Harry Potter. Wow eventful. I then was in need of getting out of the room. We walked towards the station and just meandered once again. Of course we stopped and picked up some cheesy bread for Grace and then headed to Starbucks for me.

We love our cheesy bread!





Oh, don't worry I had a real meal last night.



Grace on the other hand who does not like Japanese food.



At least I got her with the Kernel



Then we had this odd quest for today. Find 100yen 150ml Coke can from a vending machine. I know it sounds odd but that is a hell of a lot of coke for really cheap! Since we had seen several machines that had them we kept meaning to stop. But, kept forgetting. Then we finally found one on the way back to the hostel and Grace was able to buy one finally. Then I went to get one too and wouldn't you know it she got the last one...

The one she stole from me...



Then she also got FANTA



Note: Later tonight we plan on exploring the Gion District. Will let you know how it was!

Morning Jumble & Afternoon Temples

Got up today and realized we needed cash so we went over to the 7-11 and tried to withdraw $ for Grace. Well the transaction was not allowed so we tried a lower amount and were able to get that. Then she wanted to withdraw a little more, well it didn't let her and then we decided I should try because I needed cash after yesterday and the hostel fiasco. It didn't let me withdraw though. So with the little bit of money Grace was able to get out we got a bite to eat and then headed back to the hostel to
hammer out the banking issues. I called the Visa card help and our bank to let them know we were on a trip since both of us failed to let the bank know in advance...whoops. Regardless of the problems everything is working fine now and we got a bit of useful information from the guy at the bank that we didn't know before.

Onto the Toji Temple which has the tallest wooden pagoda in Japan.





Watched these turtles sunbath for a while =)





Took the bus to the wrong stop but it some how led us to a book store that had Harry Potter #7 in english. That just happened to be Grace's quest for today because she just finished reading the 6th and needed to get the next one. So our wrong turn was really the right one.



We also tried to go to the costume museum but after all that they were closed today. *back story* So the wrong bus stop was originally what I had down as the stop to take for the costume museum. So here we are wandering around looking for the building when it wasn't even in the area. That was when we happened upon the bookstore. We then hopped back on the bus and got off for the second temple of the day and as we are walking towards the main entrance I see the building that houses the costume museum. I knew from my directions that it was close enough to walk to the temple but what I shouldn't have paid attention to was the last minute bus directions I put in there. whooops! *end back story*
We walked to the other shrine that was near the second one of the morning but there was a lot of construction going on and it wasn't worth going in. So it was back to the station with us. Well on the way one only needs to guess what we saw...Starbucks. Anyway then we got on the bus to go to the Inari Shrine which is suppose to be really awesome. It was.

Sorry for the blur, lots of people were waiting to get the shot, you get the gist.



Hellow



Action Shot



NAT: after all that studying up, it was just as cool as we thought it would be.



KIM: On the way down, cows something for Amanda *Note* I am still keeping up with the book, but I have yet to seduce anyone with my phrase or find something naughty (unless you consider the manga back at the other hostel that I have waiting for me...but I will try and figure out which one of those I will complete.)



The wheels on the bus go round and round. Waiting for our ride back to the hostel, I promise its the right direction this time.



DAD: Just for you some more KOI!!!!