Continued!

A view from the shrine steps

Ryan's reaction to his fortune

One of the things to do is to get your fortune. You donate 100 yen, at least that's what it is at this shrine, and here you shake the cylinder till a stick falls out. On the stick, there is a number that corresponds to the drawer where your fortune is. It can be good, regular, or bad. Ryan and Tim got bad ones! So with the bad ones, you tie the fortune to the ropes (behind Ryan) and hope the wind blows your bad fortune away! Good or regular ones you can take home! It was fun for the 3 kids to get their fortunes. We had fun, but were exhausted after a long day walking around. While the train ride there was pretty good, the train ride home was a bit crazy. We were packed in like sardines for the entire hour and a half way home. We all had to stand the whole way home, which made for grumpy kids. We are looking forward to exploring more of Tokyo, though the kids keeping bugging us to go to TokyoDisney or DisneySea! I think that may be a spring trip!

The kids were bummed that Aunt Connie had to go home, but maybe one of the Japanese clients' cases will bring her back to Japan!