From morning till night we walked

Almost like the pioneers!!! Only . . . not quite. Yesterday, Jason and I with our son, Alyx, went on a long sight seeing trip. From 9:30 in the morning till around 7 at night we walked. Ok, well I guess we didn't walk the WHOLE entire trip, but it sure felt like that to me. 

We walked to the train station (thank goodness we're not too far from it), took about ten minutes or so. Then we caught three different trains and were on them for about an hour and a half. Then we walked to our first destination, the Horyuji Temple. It was pretty astounding, for being the World's Oldest Wooden Building The entrance fee was ridiculous though, the cost was 1000 yen per adult, so $12 each in American money. It had a museum full of famous Japanese Buddhist artifacts. Three hours after walking and looking around, we left and gratefully took the bus took the bus back to the train station so we could walk to our next site. On the way, we stopped so I could get some ice cream to help renew my energy, haha, and we ran into some mini stores on the side. But the real surprise was the multiple times I saw deer wandering around. When we were nearing the second temple, there were groups of deer surrounding people, begging for food. People were petting them too!!! It was so crazy, but cool too. The Todaiji temple, World's Biggest Wooden Building, took a lot longer to get to and I already felt so exhausted (and gross) from the heat/humidity and the distance we traveled. But I appreciated it more than the first. The cost wasn't too crazy here, 500 yen each, we did end up buying a few things though. :) The temple was really beautiful! Inside had a big buddha that was GIGANTIC!! It was also interesting to see the many different types of people there and how they worshiped him. 

Last of all, we visited a natural garden. It didn't have too many flowers in it, but it was a really pretty sight to see. All kinds of trees and plants. Green everywhere! Once in a while we saw some hydrangea, in blue, purple and pink. It was actually a rather small garden, but for the beauty it was amazing. :) It started to rain a little while later and we had a little scare on our way to the train station, but we were all right. We then relaxed   on the train ride home and had some McDonald's shaka shaka chicken, which was delicious, before we made spaghetti at home. :) It was a long but amazing day.