We woke up early again today. Sayumi's mom made us breakfast: small portions of egg, sausage, salmon, miso soup, rice, and she even gaves us some umeboshi and something else that was delicious which I'm not quite sure what to call.
After breakfast her parents dropped us off at Kinkokuji Shrine, and we went and toured around in there a little. In English, it's called the "Golden Pavillion," 'cause the main building is --well--gold. After that we went to another temple called Ryoanji with a big rock garden. A few groups of middle schoolers asked to take their pictures with us, which is always fun.
After we were done at Ryoanji we took the bus back to Sayumi's parents' restaurant, which is called Kurikuma. Our meal was, as always, delicious; it's getting to the point where I'm worried I'll be too spoiled to stand to eat any food once I get back to Colorado in July. For lunch I ordered the konoha donburi, which was a egg, fish, and shiitake mushrooms over rice, with small sides of pickled raddish, burdock root and carrot, and udon. As we were leaving the restaurant, Sayumi's mom gave Andrew, Will and I each a choice of a bamboo bookmark or little paper geisha letter holder that they sell as gifts. I got a bookmark with owls on it.
We took the bus to a big shopping district of Kyoto and shopped around for a few hours again before we had dinner. I got a long skirt, which I'm happy about, because it's been rather cool here lately and I only packed for warmer weather.
After dinner we got crepes again, because the place where we went gave us abnormally small portions for higher prices, so we didn't eat much there. Then we looked around at shops some more, but since it was late they were all closing, so we hopped on the train and came back to Sayumi's.
Tomorrow we're going to Hiroshima in the morning, which will be exciting. I'm looking forward to visiting the peace memorial.
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