End of May Already!

We have been here nearly three weeks! I have never taken so many pictures in my life. It is fun to look back and see what we have done already. Here I am at a restaurant with Sister Brown, Sister Robertson (lives downstairs) and Emi - works in the Church Office Building. We were at lunch to say goodbye to Sister Brown and a couple of others who will be leaving very soon! This is then name of the restaurant - interesting name, huh! Sister Aoyagi is coming out the door. If she looks familiar, her picture was in the conference issue this month. Her husband is a counselor in the North Asia Area presidency.

Rulon in his new pajamas!

Ordering a chicken sandwich at McDonalds. It cost nearly $7 and we split it. Won't do that again!

Interesting relief on a wall as we were walking yesterday on our way to Tokyo Hands which is a combination hardware/Target type store. We bought two pair of shoelaces - that's all! But we had an adventure getting there and back on the subway and the Japan Railroad. We did it all by ourselves!

I love the architecture here - this building is so tall and narrow. Looks like each floor has one apartment.

It's fun to look for signs - deja vu, anyone?

There are flower shops everywhere!

We were walking along a busy street tonight and there was a lot of police activity. I don't know what was going on but there were policemen at every intersection.

Several big buses with wire on the windows looked like they were there to put rowdy people in if there were riots.

I saw a procession with cars and on one was the flag of Japan. So maybe it was just a dignitary going by in a motorcade. Wish I understood the news.

I asked this lady if I could take this picture of her dog - he was dressed for the cool evening.

As we came down a steep incline, I saw this sign with the turtle. I think it must say to go slow!

This is Mori Tower - a landmark that we look for when we are walking.

See the fat building and the two skinny ones? The Japanese use every bit of space they can.

Blue Man Group billboard.

A fun little drugstore.

Outside of many restaurants you will see plastic food showing the offerings. The menu is also there so you can see the prices.

Another 100 Yen store - they are everywhere.

I finally got a good picture of a crow. They are huge here and you hear a lot of cawing.

A woman in a kimono - a minute later she was on her cell phone!

Want to go to the Hair Garden?

I took this for Dan - it was a sign near the subway station.

We walked so far and turned the wrong way. We were turned around. Luckily the angel missionaries were riding by and helped us see where we were.

Another familiar logo!

I thought of Ella and Tanna when I saw these banners with Hello Kitty on them!

When we finally reached familiar territory, we were very happy! This is Hanamasa - our little grocery store.

This is another landmark that we look for - notice the sign No Man's Land with the arrow pointing down.

But this is the best landmark of all! The Angel Moroni shows us where we are! We live just a couple of minutes from the temple.

We were glad to get home - now to pack for a week away. I will blog again when we return from Korea.