Our first day in Tokyo and leaving Kamakura-- ETHAN

Monday, August 14th

Today I woke up and Yuji was up.  He just came in from India! So then I went back to tell my mom. She was already awake and we went back down  and I met Yuji. Rina and her brother Kazuki were there. We met Rina 4 years ago in Chicago and we had never met Kazuki. Right before we left Rina and Yuji gave us AWESOME CANDY and Yuji gave us each !10,000 YEN! In American money that would be 100 dollars!

Then we took the train to Tokyo. Rina and Kazuki came with us. The first thing we did was The Owl and Hedgehogs Cafe. There was a one hour wait so we ate udon for lunch in that time. When we went in there were SO many OWLS! My favorite one is the great horned owl which is SO big!We also got to hold hedgehogs. They are SO cute! All of them are squirmy. They are poky even with gloves and the owls felt weird because they have claws. We also fed the owls. They flew off the branch and ate the food.Then we went to Loft and got a little shrimp named Shrimpeno and a big sea monster named Deno. Then we went to our hotel we are staying in and it is called Asakusa view hotel. It has a VERY good view. For dinner we had beef that you cook yourself (yakiniku)! It it so hard not to burn it! And SOOOO good!!