Family Visit, part 2

More pictures from the family visit:




Photos:

• Top left: my dad and my sister in Kamakura
• Top right: only in Japan will you find a "Cup Ramen" game at an amusement park
• Bottom left: a view of Tokyo to the north from the top of Tokyo Tower. In the distance you can see a group of skyscrapers in Shinjuku, which is where the next picture was taken later that night.
• Bottom right: a view of Tokyo to the west (I think) from the 51st floor of the Sumitomo Building in Shinjuku.

Family Visit, part 1

My family's here this week for a quick visit, and I am so excited to see them! Here are a few pics of what we've been up to for the last couple days:

























Photos:

• Top left: Asakusa Kannon-do Temple, right before the lightning storm.
• Top right: painting on the ceiling of the temple
• Middle left: Torii outside Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi Park. You can see my parents at the base of one of the posts.
• Middle right: even though we'd had lightning and thunder earlier in the morning, the sun came out for a while in the afternoon while we were at Meiji Shrine.
• Bottom left: We went to Tokyo DisneySea today and arrived just in time to see the parade for the Spring Carnival. Nice stilts...
• Bottom right: no smoking sign outside one of the "Little Mermaid"-themed roller coasters.