Katys birthday was a while ago now but we made sure she had a good day.
In the morning when we woke up we made Crepes. We got different fruit and some peanut butter to go inside and of course we got some whipped topping to make them even yummier (Myla liked the cream too :) - I am surprised Katy's crepes had any cream left as Myla liked to lick it all off).
Then after breakfast we went to Fushimi Inari Shrine. Here Katy got to take part in a Shinto ceremony and was blessed by a Shinto priest after he said a prayer for her. After her blessing she was given a small box of things to take home -rice, seaweed, and one other thing and she asked if she needed to eat it all to have a good year :)
Then in the afternoon we had a basketball game so she took the girls there.
The game was in the afternoon so when we finished we had some time to go out for dinner. We wanted to do something that we hadnt done before and went to Shabu Shabu. If you get a chance to try this I definitely recommend this. Shabu Shabu is where you have a big pot of sauce - ir at our restaurant, 2 sauces. One of them was a chicken based sauce and the other was a fish based sauce.
When you sit down at the table you turn your pot of sauce on so it heats up and starts to boil. When the sauce is hot you take the very thin slices of beef (or pork if you choose) and drop them in the sauce where it cooks. You also get dishes of vegetables that you can put in the sauce. This a very healthy meal and one that was very good. I think there are some shabu-shabu that are not all you can eat, but the one that we went to was. So, all we had to do was open up the menu (there was pictures) and we could point to what we want. We had an hour to eat (many of the all-you-can-eat places here have a time limit of 60 or 90 minutes) and we pretty much had the restaurant to ourselves as we went after our game. This was out first time and we really liked it; it costed about $30 a person but it was well worth it. I would recommend it if you make a trip to Japan and would like a nice a meal and want to try something Japanese! Myla really enjoyed it as she was able to help put the all the veggies and the glass noodles in the sauce, and had fun eating all the different types of food that we were able to get.
In the morning when we woke up we made Crepes. We got different fruit and some peanut butter to go inside and of course we got some whipped topping to make them even yummier (Myla liked the cream too :) - I am surprised Katy's crepes had any cream left as Myla liked to lick it all off).
Then after breakfast we went to Fushimi Inari Shrine. Here Katy got to take part in a Shinto ceremony and was blessed by a Shinto priest after he said a prayer for her. After her blessing she was given a small box of things to take home -rice, seaweed, and one other thing and she asked if she needed to eat it all to have a good year :)
Then in the afternoon we had a basketball game so she took the girls there.
The game was in the afternoon so when we finished we had some time to go out for dinner. We wanted to do something that we hadnt done before and went to Shabu Shabu. If you get a chance to try this I definitely recommend this. Shabu Shabu is where you have a big pot of sauce - ir at our restaurant, 2 sauces. One of them was a chicken based sauce and the other was a fish based sauce.
When you sit down at the table you turn your pot of sauce on so it heats up and starts to boil. When the sauce is hot you take the very thin slices of beef (or pork if you choose) and drop them in the sauce where it cooks. You also get dishes of vegetables that you can put in the sauce. This a very healthy meal and one that was very good. I think there are some shabu-shabu that are not all you can eat, but the one that we went to was. So, all we had to do was open up the menu (there was pictures) and we could point to what we want. We had an hour to eat (many of the all-you-can-eat places here have a time limit of 60 or 90 minutes) and we pretty much had the restaurant to ourselves as we went after our game. This was out first time and we really liked it; it costed about $30 a person but it was well worth it. I would recommend it if you make a trip to Japan and would like a nice a meal and want to try something Japanese! Myla really enjoyed it as she was able to help put the all the veggies and the glass noodles in the sauce, and had fun eating all the different types of food that we were able to get.
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