Remembering back two weeks ago.....

Just two short weeks ago we were waking up in Tokyo, with no major plans and perfect weather off we went to wander through the city.

First we need coffee, and in heading there we get to witness a window washer lose his balance and go swinging wildly away from the building. He spilled half his bucket of water all over the sidewalk below, getting a few people...
Once we were fueled up we just stared walking, we had seen a lot of Tokyo when we were here last year so it made for a nice lazy day of just walking and seeing what we would run into.

For lunch we stopped at a great German style beer hall that had beautiful mosaic work covering the walls.Finally, after walking what Tina believes to be somewhat over 10 km, we made it back up to the small restaurant that we went to last year so that we could see the owner that had sent us photos of the cherry blossoms.

But, as you remember we found out when looking into trips to Kyoto, it is the Golden Week and a lot of places are closed. This small little restaurant is closed too with a small sign saying that it will re-open just after we leave for Hawaii. There is someone inside so we knock on the door anyway...

The owner comes out and is glad to see us - we gave him a photo of all of us from last year, and he decides that he will take us to another good little sushi restaurant in the area that is still open.

The sushi master and his wife

The food was excellent, and this tiny place was packed. We pulled out our little travel printer and printed off a picture of Tina and I with the owner, and after some mangled Chinese between us, Tina writing Chinese, and finally a call to his English teacher - we agree to come back to Tokyo sometime when his restaurant is open so that he can treat us to a great sushi meal...