Kyoto, May 24th, 2008
Yesterday, May 23rd was a long day – getting up at 4:00 and getting to the airport – only to find that there was a 1 hour delay. 15 of us were flying Delta and 21 on United with 2 wives joining us in Beijing in a couple of days.
Sunday, we started with breakfast at the hotel and had a wonderful sacrament meeting in a room at the hotel. 100% attendance – that doesn’t happen very often!
We left the hotel after sacrament meeting for sightseeing of many Buhha and Shindu Temples and lots of Shogun stuff. We were exhausted at the end of the day.
May 25, 2008
Woke up early – every morning is wake up at 4:00 because it gets light here that early. We packed and had our luggage out the door by 6:00. The bathrooms in the hotel are just like Papa Charlie’s RV bathroom and very similar to bathrooms on cruise ships.
We left the hotel and walked to the bullet train station to go to Toyota – about 35 minutes ride going 170 miles an hour. We are now on a bus headed to Toyota plant about 1 hour away. The children here are wonderful – they want to try out their English. They are always happy and waving at us. We took pictures of the children in their traditional dresses. While traveling on the way to Nagoya we saw tons of rice fields which are full of water – very interesting. I took pictures on the train and will post them for you to see. The food has been interesting – for breakfast today in our box “breakfast” we had many different sandwiches with meat – and then a cold piece of chicken nugget and a cold small hamburger pattie. – no fruit – no doughnut. Very interesting!
We just left Toyota and had a wonderful tour. I wish that we could have some of their smaller cars – like the Wish and we saw a future 1 person car – which looked like a wheelchair that was enclosed. It was fun looking. What a good tour they give – they give 20 tours a day to schools. You have to make a reservation for the tour 3 months ahead of time. The do not like to fire people – so they make sure that they have people in the right job.
We are back on the train, headed to Tokyo – we ride a train for 10 minutes and then transfer to another train and head to Tokyo. It is about 1.5 hours after that.This time we are in a non-smoking car – but it is next to a smoking car and everytime the door opens – it feels are car with smoke. We have lots of leg room – too bad the airlines don’t have seats like these!
Tonight at 7:00 we will meet up with Scott Murdoch for dinner and I will take a picture of him and post.
Love, Mom
7 comments:
We have enjoyed reading about your adventures, Riley loved reading about the train and how fast your where traveling. Kenzie wanted me to tell you that she lost her first tooth yesterday. I thought she was going to faint when she realized that it had come out. She was up at 6:15 am the next morning to show us what the tooth fairy left her. Have a great time! we love you!!
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Outstanding mom and dad! Enjoy China, i loved it ere. Were are the pictures? Did you go to the forbidden city?
Loving the blog Mom! Glad you and Dad are having a good time... We need pictures tho! Make sure you try new things and meet new people.
Very intresting about the rice fields and haveing no fruit we want to see pictures. Casy and I went to check the house out, it has been rainy in Utah County since Sunday everything looks dry. Take care Love you lots.
Hi enjoying the amazing asin adventure. Have fun and stay safe.Love you sandy
I hope you guys are having fun! eat some sushi for me. Can't wait to see pictures love you guys. Im doing just fine in Washington DC
Still loving the posts Mom - Keep them coming!
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