Our last stop was in Kyoto, a very beautiful city where we stayed in a Japanese Ryokan run by a very wonderful old lady. A Ryokan is a traditional boarding house, where we slept on mats on a Tatami floor. The bathrooms were communal, and we were given slippers and robes to wear. We were all exhausted from hard charging it the last few days and lounged in the room for most of the night, drinking cup after cup of tea. The place was so relaxing, just filled with tranquil energy. This was the perfect place to recharge the batteries for the night, and was a definite highlight of our trip.
The next day we checked out a Samurai castle that is right in the middle of town. It had lots of lovely gardens and 500 year old buildings and paintings. The craftsmanship is amazing, even more so because it was all built by hand.
Don’t ask me why, but Aaron was determined to eat an egg-burger from McDonald’s before we left. It had a patty, fried egg, some sort of disgusting strips of animal fat, and was slathered in pink mayonnaise. Never under any circumstances would I put that thing in my mouth. He munched it do
wn with a smile.
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