Kyoto and Tokyo use the same letters....

So, I just got home from being gone two days in Kyoto with a decent stop in Tokyo on the way back this afternoon. I tell ya what, it's a long train ride! So, we went to Kyoto because we will be doing one of the music videos at a temple there, so we had to go check it out and meet with some people there. It's a beautiful city...even in the rain.
It rained the entire first day (Wednesday the 17th) we were there which didn't stop us from buying umbrellas and walking through the city to a large temple at the top of the hill. I imagine that all would have been much more beautiful and enjoyable in more sunny conditions in less soaked pants and shoes. I guess that it was because I was wearing my brothers old chucks that aren't exactly waterproof....okay, they're full of holes and not even really shoes anymore.....that everyone kept telling me that I should buy new shoes. Whatever! I like 'em! Nothing a little hairdryer action at the hotel couldn't fix and prepare me for another full day of walkin around today (thursday the 18th). If I had internet at the hotel last night I would have blogged there and then had this as a separate day...but if I were to do that now, it'd just be lame! So, I'm not, but at least


I'll make it a new paragraph. We woke up this morning pretty early and went to Hoji Castle which was really old and pretty incredible! Of course, like many good "tourist spots"....you can't take photos inside. Okay, so......that's lame!

*insert tangent here about lame places with "No Photographing" signs*

Anyway, it was beautiful there for sure, and although cloudy, it wasn't raining today. Something really really cool about that temple was the floors! Yeah, the floors, they were awesome. They were called nightingale floors because.....they sounded like birds when you walked on them. They were made specifically so that when walked on they squeak; so that during the time of the Shoguns (old school leader dudes) it was more difficult for a ninja to sneak in to the castle to assassinate him. Don't laugh, seriously, they were made as a ninja alert system. And almost as cool was in some of the rooms, like the meeting rooms and shoguns office, etc, there was a set of doors in each of them. There would be some heavy duty samurai guys chillin behind the doors so that IF a ninja got past the bird floors and into the room they could burst out and get him! Yeah, intense, I know!

Yada yada, walked back to the train station took a train to another town/city **insert tangent about what the heck the difference between those two is** where we went camera shopping for David's sister; she got a nice new camera. And then back to the train and on to Tokyo....which is basically like a really clean version of New York, with a few less (or maybe more) Americans. It was fun walkin around watching people and what not....all in all a good time there....where David bought a sick new computer for the video editing (if you know him I'm sure you'll hear about it soon enough).

Okay, this is getting long...like the train ride from Tokyo back to Kamogawa (approx. 2 hours). Now I've seen more of Japan and it's still pretty great...and still different from what I expected. Oooh, I also go interviewed by some junior high kids at the castle we went to this morning....practicing english for school; they did alright.