We took the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. THIS was our favorite city in the orient so far! Out of China, Korea, and Japan...Kyoto was AMAZING! It was one of the cities that wasn't bombed in WWII and from the places we have visited, was the neatest "old world" city yet.
Gion is an area in Kyoto that is still an active running Geisha entertaining area. Look at those old buildings, with all the
traditional lanterns and
writings on the doors. Very neat!
We saw about 6 Geisha within the hour we were there. I had read the book Memoirs of a Geisha years ago and that was all I was thinking about when we'd see one hurry past us. It was just like how they explained things in the book. Very mysterious too!
Us walking around looking at the different
restaurants and buildings. However, I felt like it was really
inappropriate to have Ana out in this entertaining district after dark. Kinda like Vegas when the sun goes down...so we went back to our hotel for dinner.
On the way to our bus to get to the hotel we ran into random Japanese people walking around in Japanese garb so I went up to them and asked if we could take a picture with them...
hee hee!
In our hotel there were 5
restaurants and Marc asked me to choose. So we had had an
authentic Japanese Steakhouse meal in Tokyo and I loved it so I was excited to do it again. The menu was posted outside the door and a meal for two was $27. Let's do it!
The meal was AMAZING! It ended up being an 8 course meal and I'm thinking the entire time...WOW for $27 ya can't beat this! The
chef was the best too. Ana was loving our tomatoes in one of our courses so she asked for more and we told her we didn't have anymore. Well, without us knowing he was even paying attention, let alone spoke English...he comes back with a bowl of tomatoes just for her. So sweet! THEN this shrimp is on a skewer and he puts him on the grill and Ana says, "Mommy he's
movin"...sure enough that shrimp was and Ana gets upset so the chef covers him with this spatula. BUT he sure was yummy! Then the chef gets Ana a "special" bowl of ice cream to end the meal.
SO at the end of our meal, Ana asks to go potty and I take her. Marc pays the bill, we take this picture of our amazing
experience and head up to our room. On the way Marc says, "So Jenna how much did you think that meal was?" WELL, I did the conversion wrong...in Korea it is $1 to 1000 Won...BUT in Japan it is $1 to 100 yen....I was off by a zero! BUT that $270 meal was GREAT!!! AND we got extra tomatoes and ice cream! Ya gotta
appreciate the jeans, pony tails, and 3 yr old in a 5 star
restaurant! Never was good at math...and for Marc to be that laid back about it...I thank God everyday for this man!
Gion is an area in Kyoto that is still an active running Geisha entertaining area. Look at those old buildings, with all the traditional lanterns and writings on the doors. Very neat!
We saw about 6 Geisha within the hour we were there. I had read the book Memoirs of a Geisha years ago and that was all I was thinking about when we'd see one hurry past us. It was just like how they explained things in the book. Very mysterious too!
Us walking around looking at the different restaurants and buildings. However, I felt like it was really inappropriate to have Ana out in this entertaining district after dark. Kinda like Vegas when the sun goes down...so we went back to our hotel for dinner.
On the way to our bus to get to the hotel we ran into random Japanese people walking around in Japanese garb so I went up to them and asked if we could take a picture with them... hee hee!
In our hotel there were 5 restaurants and Marc asked me to choose. So we had had an authentic Japanese Steakhouse meal in Tokyo and I loved it so I was excited to do it again. The menu was posted outside the door and a meal for two was $27. Let's do it!
The meal was AMAZING! It ended up being an 8 course meal and I'm thinking the entire time...WOW for $27 ya can't beat this! The chef was the best too. Ana was loving our tomatoes in one of our courses so she asked for more and we told her we didn't have anymore. Well, without us knowing he was even paying attention, let alone spoke English...he comes back with a bowl of tomatoes just for her. So sweet! THEN this shrimp is on a skewer and he puts him on the grill and Ana says, "Mommy he's movin"...sure enough that shrimp was and Ana gets upset so the chef covers him with this spatula. BUT he sure was yummy! Then the chef gets Ana a "special" bowl of ice cream to end the meal.
SO at the end of our meal, Ana asks to go potty and I take her. Marc pays the bill, we take this picture of our amazing experience and head up to our room. On the way Marc says, "So Jenna how much did you think that meal was?" WELL, I did the conversion wrong...in Korea it is $1 to 1000 Won...BUT in Japan it is $1 to 100 yen....I was off by a zero! BUT that $270 meal was GREAT!!! AND we got extra tomatoes and ice cream! Ya gotta appreciate the jeans, pony tails, and 3 yr old in a 5 star restaurant! Never was good at math...and for Marc to be that laid back about it...I thank God everyday for this man!
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