This is just going to be a short post to get me started on my Christmas vacation (February's half done-I'd better get Christmas posts done soon!).After a couple of very busy weeks in the middle of December, I left for the United States on the 24th, which ended up being the longest Christmas Eve in my life. Not in the idiomatic sense of "oh, what a horrible day! That was the longest day of my life!" but in the chronological sense: I left Tokyo in the
mid-afternoon on the 24th and arrived in Portland at 7:00 am on the 24th. But, I'm getting a
little ahead of myself-this is just supposed to be the prequel. On the way to the airport, Mondo and Aiko met me, and we spent a few hours hanging out at the Narita Temple, having lunch and waiting for my flight at the airport. Narita Temple is about a 15-minute drive from Tokyo/Narita airport.The street lined with shops leading to the temple reminded me of a similar street in Kyoto where I visited last summer. Many of the restaurants lining the street serve eel, and you can see barrels of eels waiting to be filleted and turned into someone's meal. So, how do you feel? Does a real eel meal appeal? (sorry--I couldn't resist the rhyme)
The temple grounds are very beautiful, but we didn't have enough time to actually tour the temple itself-maybe on my next visit. After looking at the area, we had lunch at a little cafe (no eel-I had Italian food) and then headed for the airport.
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