Falling In Love

I fell in love with Japan while I was in Tokyo, I had such a brilliant time and I stopped feeling homesick and started appreciating the fact that I AM IN JAPAN!!!!! Sometimes I forget that little detail. We visited Meiji Temple, one of the biggest in Japan and chanced upon a ceremony blessing children who are 3, 5, and 7 years old. There were so many cute children in gorgeous kimonos stumbling around collecting pebbles and lapping up the attention. I was getting really broody, at that moment I really wanted to have one of those kids, they were just so adorable! There were a couple of toddlers in red and pink kimonos who were posing for photos for their parents, they had on the biggest, cheesiest grins but the sweetest thing was when they held up three fingers instead of two for the peace sign. My heart broke. It was so sweet! Our luck didnt stop there, just when we were about to leave, an attendant in ceremonial robes led a wedding procession across the courtyard with the bride dressed in the most intricate white kimono and shaded by a huge red parasol. Everybody just stopped, it was so beautiful!

Still going after my neon lights photo, we headed for Shinjuku and stopped at one of the busiest crossings in Japan. A guy cuts a striking figure in the chaos, he was standing still dressed in a white tailored suit, but we were the only people not moving in the throng of people. He looked over and smiled, we smiled back. We headed over for a chat, turns out he's a Dutch model on an assigment and sure enough there was the photographer and make-up people nearby. When we returned to the same spot over an hour later, he was still standing there posing for the camera.