Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Shibuya

On Sunday we got up and headed off for Shibuya. Shibuya is a huge shopping district in Tokyo. We went there last year very briefly so we knew that we wanted to go back and spend some more time. We had gotten a map from the concierge at the hotel. She told us that we could take the bus there. We hadn't taken a bus this year so we decided that we would try to take the bus instead of the train. it was so nice. It picked us up really close to the hotel and droped us off infront of the train station in Shibuya. It was way nicer than taking the train. If we took the train we would have had to take a subway then switch onto a regular train. It would have taken us twice as long. I wish I knew how to take more buses because I would rather jump on a bus rather then take a train and walk.

Here is Tony and Vann on the bus.
Right outside the train station in Shibuya.


This lady was playing a drum and wearing an advertisment infront of a store.




This guy was inside a very high class department store making these dolls.


Kids playing with toys in the kid section. Notice they don't have shoes on. You never wear shoes where there is carpet.
This was a house we saw. None of there houses look alike.
We saw this quad just driving down the street. We thought it was kind of funny because it had California license plates on the front of it.

I love this Disney Store.
Vann trying on snowboard boots while Tony and I were looking at jackets.
After we finished in Shibuya we headed back to the hotel. One of my friends that I met over here that has a little boy Vann's age was going to meet us at the Hotel and spend the night. We were planning on taking the boys swimming together.

New Sanno and Tokyo

Last weekend we went up to Tokyo and stayed two nights at The New Sanno Hotel. We had a good time. Saturday after we got up there we walk around the city that the hotel is in because our room wasn't ready for us to check in. We decided to go explorer areas that we had never been to before. We ended up finding several parks for Vann to play at. After walking around for a couple hours we went back to the hotel and checked in to our room. Vann was dieing to go swimming so we got changed and went swimming. Vann loves swimming. I wish our hotel that we live at had a pool because he asks to go swimming everyday. The base has a pool but it doesn't have a sallow end. Vann had so much fun as you can tell by the pictures.