Japan 2.0

Are you ready for way too many pictures from Japan again?  I won't even be sad if you don't read the whole thing.

The day after Christmas was Todd's birthday!  He is a good sport to travel on his birthday so we didn't bring any presents for him or really make as big of a deal out of it as we should have, but he always knows how much we love him. He is the best! 

After breakfast we drove to Kamakura and visited some sites there.  We went to a Buddhist temple ground that was beautiful.

Let's talk about how much Katelyn loves Spencer.  A lot.  She loved to be able to hang out with him for almost two weeks!

Emma was really excited about the caves that we were able to go in.

She also asked to pose for this picture with my Dad.  That doesn't happen very much so we always have to take advantage!

Emma obviously did not ask for this picture to be taken.

After the temple we walked up the road to see "The Great Buddha"

 The next day was my parent's 30th wedding anniversary!  Hooray for them because they are the best parents ever.

The girls in the family were able to be dressed in traditional Japanese Kimono.  Let's just talk about how it takes 30 minutes to put it all on.  Who knew!?

How cute is Emma's tiny Kimono? I died.

It takes about 15 minutes just to tie the bow in the back.  Too much work if you ask me.

Later that afternoon we went to volunteer at a local orphanage.  It was fun to be able to spend time with the kids there.  Our girls, especially Katelyn, were the center of attention.

The 28th, Jeffrey and Brooke's Wedding Anniversary, we spent exploring downtown Tokyo.  We did alot of walking, and shopping and went to a nearby Shrine.

Don't worry about all of those people in the intersection.  I thought it was funny that they had that many crosswalk lines when really there are so many people that they just stop cars in all directions and everyone just walks wherever they want.  It was fun to just walk around and look at all of the huge buildings.  My Dad and Spencer were nice and took the girls home after a little while, Emma would have rather played dress-up at their house than go shopping.

And that will do it for this portion of the trip.  The last post should be up soon!