Day two, Wednesday! This is a short Tokyo trip and our last day touring Tokyo. We decided to go to Ueno Park and the zoo. The last time we went to Ueno we saw magicians, musicians, other strange performers, enjoyed people-watching, and sampling the food kiosks. It wasn't quite like that this time. The park was empty! I'm not sure why everyone was gone, but it was still a pretty walk through the park.

The zoo is wonderful! It's large with a great variety of interesting animals. They do a wonderful job with most of the habitats and overall it's very pretty. I love this relaxing bear!

It was pretty hot and muggy and the boys don't last as long as we do. So we saw about half of the zoo before getting some ice cream and shaved ice and decided to head back. We got cute, obligatory face-in-hole pictures of the boys!

We saw a five-storied pagoda!

Heron was amused by the animals, but he didn't start imitating noises like Rhino did at his first visit to the zoo! I think it's just because we didn't stop by the polar bears this time.

Mom & Dad let Rhino take photos with their camera (sorry sweetie! You're not touching my camera just yet. Maybe soon you'll get your own!) He is really excited for "picture! picture!" He does horizontal and vertical (the cutest!) photos and checks to see how they look after. He too a ton! Here's a picture of a pigeon he was photographing above (well, a minute before. I'm not sure what he was photographing above!)

We don't have a lot of familiar American restaurants up here in Misawa. There's fast food on base, a McDonald's in town, and a KFC in the Shimoda Mall and Hachinohe. I'm not crazy about fast food! In Tokyo they have a handful of other restaurants that you would see in the States. When we went last year with Liz and Nicole, we went to the Outback Steakhouse. With Mom & Dad, we had dinner at TGI Fridays. Yay! I feel silly eating "American food" in Japan, but we really do get our fill of Japanese food! And I wanted a steak!

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