Japan- Day 1

I hate waking up. Always have, and I most likely always will. But despite my hate of being woken up, my friend woke me up at around 6 30 in the morning. Breakfast consisted of weirdly under-cooked eggs, fish, rice, orange juice, and a bunch of other weird Japanese dishes. The first stop of the day was a huge observation tower to see all of Tokyo. It is a very compact place and I'm amazed that so many people can live there. Pictures were taken and I got the awesomest souvenir of a sword and shield key chain. Next, we hit a Shinto shrine and got our purification on! The temple was beautiful and everything, but I'm pretty sure most of the stuff there would creep my mother out. There was a wedding procession that was a lot like a funeral- the people were dead silent. It was a little on the creepy side. Then it was ice cream time! Black Sesame and Cherry Blossom. Both were terrible. Finally it was time to go shopping. While there, we started a game that required us to take pictures with random people. That was pretty fun, but the worst part was when the random Africans there tried to pull me and my friend over and kept saying they wanted to sell us stuff and that they liked my accent! Weirdos.

Purification!

Air view of Tokyo