First day in Tokyo -- by Izzy

First Day in Tokyo! By Izzy August 14, 2017

Today we woke up and met Momo and Jiji's best friend, Yuji. Rina and her brother Kazuki are related to Yuji and they we there, too. Ethan and I have met Rina before when she visited Momo and Jiji in Chicago. Rina gave the kids some snacks and candy and Yuji gave us each 10,000 yen!!! We are very lucky to get that much money!

We packed up and we were driven to the train station because it was raining. Rina and Kazuki went with us. We took a few trains to get to Ikebukuro, where the owl park is. Only the dads didn't go to the owl park. We went inside but the people at the counter said the wait would be around an hour!! So we made a reservation for an hour later and we outside. I said that I wanted udon for lunch and I was in luck- there was a udon place right across the street! We ate lunch there and it was really good! We went back to the owl park and we were able to get in! Ethan, Vincent, and I fed the owls. We put a glove on and the barn owl would fly to us and perch on our arm then we would give them the food with tweezers. After they ate the little piece of meat, the owl flew back to its perch.

The hedgehogs were in a wooden box with some fake grass on the bottom. Their was a hedgehog in the box that had a metal ring around him. The picture of the hedgehog is above. We got to hold some owls and hedgehogs-both were really cute. After that, we walked to Loft and got a few small things. We met up with the dads and went back to the hotel. A few hours later, we went to dinner. We all met up with mom's coworker Yasu and his family. We had Yakiniku which is meat that you cook on your own on a grill on your table. I had fun cooking it and also LOVED eating it!