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We're back in Tokyo, this time with Kirsten (and Kirsten's computer, and the free wi-fi in the hotel lobby.) In a few hours K & I will meet up with Naomi, my Japanese KITH friend whom I haven't seen since that magical time with Scott in Montreal in July 2001. She'll be our native Tokyo guide. The adults (ha ha) are on a day trip to Mt Fuji so we have some blessed freedom.

My impressions of Kyoto: It's pretty. Kind of boring, but pretty. It's red maple season and the colours are mind-boggling. I kind of get that Shinto idea that if something in nature moves you it's because of the spirit, because I'm pretty sure I fell in love with a flaming maple spirit of some kind that inhabited a tree near our hotel. I also took the opportunity in this land of plenty (of sugar) to have a gingerbread latte in the Starbuck's in the mall by our hotel. What happens in Kyoto stays in Kyoto. I'm pretty sure I'm undoing 2 years worth of low carbing in this country. It will be a very lean Christmas for me. But it's really, really fun to eat whatever I want. Really.

Kyoto is all shrines and temples. They got kind of the same after awhile. We went to one that was really, really awesome in that Big Bird visited it in Big Bird in Japan. The Sanju-Sangen-do temple with the 1,001 statues of Kannon. That was neat.

My favourite thing about Japan is watching my sister speak Japanese to everyone. They keep saying to her, "Nihongo ga ojouzu desu ne" which she tells me means "Your Japanese is good". That's MY sister!

HAPPY BELATED CHERYL DAY and HAPPY BELATED THROGSGRAFEN! Both were on Thursday. I had sukiyaki on Thanksgiving, but I had a great turkey dinner at the Morts' on Wednesday.

See you on Sunday!

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