It’s Chen’s day. He enjoys going to museums and looking at weird boring things. I say these things are boring, but when I’m actually there I suspect there are times where I have more fun than him; like when we were at the The Louvre and I had an absolute blast in the Greek and Roman sections. Anyway, on the way to the National Museum we came by a small shrine and since we hadn’t been to one yet, and we knew the Senso-ji was going to be chockablock later, we took a look around – careful not to disturb the funeral happening nearby.

Make a wish.

Love these things. They remind me of our time in Japan as children.

Welcome to the Mueseum

The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
The gallery was amazing, and there were all these little statues, each one was different. This damn child was running amok in there banging on all the cabinets and being a bloody brat. The parents were doing nothing. No idea why they weren’t kicked out.

Loved these!

Smooooooothhh
Then we came across a room full of calligraphy and I was in heaven. Everything was *swooooooooooooon*. I couldn’t stop ogling everything and took about a million photos, but here’s just one.

It looks typed!!

Samurai

Another calligraphy shot.
After leaving the museum we actually got a little lost getting back to the station. We couldn’t find the metro trains for the longest time, so we ended up walking to the next station. No idea how we got so lost. We stopped for some ice cream and bun along the way.

Milk Soft Ice IC#24 HM#10

Chen had a panda bun riddled with red bean.
Dad suggested we go to Senso-ji and since it was still relatively early, we set off to find that the giant lantern in the front was covered for renovations. Buuuttt…we walked into the tourist aisles anyway and bought some dango!

Yummy dango made fresh.

The Chen bought some red bean blobs.
I was hungry and we still hadn’t tried pancakes yet, so off we went to Ginza for some munchies. Dad called at this point and told us not to eat too much because we were going to another of this restaurants in the evening. TOO LATE! We were at pancakes!

Eggs ‘n Things

Sodas. You gotta order a drink wherever you go.

A mountain of fluffy cream – Strawberry, whipped cream, macadamia nuts [¥1,080]

Something savoury because we had to adult. Sausage, sunny side up, rich [¥1,130]

Giant paper clip

Ground floor

Look how cute these pens are!

Rainbow
Yeah, we bought things. Also, we were early back to Shinjuku for dinner and found another Itoya at the top of the department store and bought some more things before meeting up with Parents for dinner.

Nadaman なだ万

I didn’t eat that bean

Fish

Apparently very expensive alcohol

More fish.

Tempura that I was forced to ingest.

More forced feeding

Delicious steak

The ice from the alcohol interested me more.

GIMME SUSHI!!!
Then, I couldn’t decide which dessert to order so Dad let me order all four.

Dessert #1 Sago, ice cream, red bean paste in coconut milk

Dessert #2 Seasonal fruits with cointreau jelly

Dessert #3 Cold mascarpone soup with seasonal fruits

Dessert #4 Japanese brown tea flavoured pudding

I ATE ALL FOUR!!!!!
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