Engrish, anyone?

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If you like reading my blog entries, check out my niece's take on her visit here. She is a VERY clever writer with a fabulous descriptive vocabulary.

She loves describing food, and has earned points for being very adventurous!

Also she has a photo line up of our "bean paste faces." It is not to be missed.

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Shoes.

I am still pretty obsessed with footwear. I love looking at the outrageous shoes, boots and wild variety of styles I encounter everytime I step out. I am now comfortable enough to take pictures unobtrusively, and plan to share some of the sights with you. So today I will share some pics of shoes on a woman on the train, and shoes we found in an underground lair in Harajuku.

I am guessing that the styles will get more exciting with the approach of spring, so stay tuned.

It's hard to tell, but these are red velvet shoes. Eat your heart out Dorothy Gale.
We've been having a discussion as to what "Group Treedom" is.
These metallic beauties are often seen paired with jeans.
Imagine colors 2 shades more vivid, and you have the real things.
Leopard print has to be my all time favorite!

Fake food for sale

Kappabashi is a fun place to go to find everything you could ever want for the kitchen or restaurant. We went there today and found fake food- it's everywhere in Japan. Outside of almost every restaurant you can find a display of what's cookin' inside. The displays are made out of- ??? resin or something. Some of the displays are so convincing, I'm sure they are real. But TODAY! We found a couple of stores that sell the realisitc looking fruits, veggies, rice dishes, meats, curries, sushi, dumplings, beer, desserts- everything. What a hoot.

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Conveyor Sushi: It's the real thing.

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Time is winding down for the Wayman girls' visit. So today they checked a few more things off their "must do" list: bought happi coats, found fake food charms, bought more jewelry, met their friend from Allegheny College, went up Tokyo Tower, ate in an authentic Japanese restaurant for lunch, bought their tickets to Nikko for their trip tomorrow and visited the kitchen district. Whew! Oh yeah- and really good conveyor belt sushi for dinner. Sandra loves to try new food.

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