Konichiwa!

We made it to Japan and Kyla traveled great! This is the view from the Royal Park Shiodome in Tokyo. She loves our room and loves the city! We fell asleep at 8pm (earliest I've ever gone to bed) and we all were wide awake at 3:30am! Hah! Perfect time to go to the Tsukiji Fish Market and have the freshest sushi of our lives for breakfast! Oyi-shi (yummy)! 

I can't believe we missed the auction of the big tunas even though we were up so early! I really wanted Kyla to see it! Fish 6-8 feet long (yes I said FEET!) that go for tens of thousands of dollars! Taro and I saw it our first trip to Japan, but the pictures got lost in transferring them somehow. Ugh! It's really funny to see this little Japanese man standing on a wooden box, talking at the speed of light, and every once in a while you can catch a "Hai! Hai! Hai" (Yes)! I guess they do it earlier in the summertime so all of the sushi chefs from all over Tokyo can buy fish, cut it up and have it ready for breakfast first thing in the morning.

 I did, however, catch a (blurry) shot of one of the carts they drive around the market.They use ice picks with 2-3 strong Japanese guys to pick up the fish and put it on the cart and drive back to their restaurants. It's a really funny looking vehicle...like the motor of a lawn mower and a barrel as a gas tank with a massive steering wheel and pedestrians DO NOT have the right of way! Haha! 

So as we speak, we're on the bullet train going 300 miles an hour! We're on our way to Numazu to see Taro's family and the summer festival! Yay! Sayonara!