My Weekend, Part One: The Aquaduct Walk and Thanksgiving
So, this weekend was very different from my normal ones. First of all, I had three days off, which was totally awesome after two weekends in a row of speech contests on Saturday. Second of all, we had to shy away from all major sites cause of the maple leaf insanity. We originally intended to see Nanzen-in, but we decided against paying to go inside once we saw the massive mob of people. Instead, we decided to take a walk along the aquaduct and see where it would lead us.
A silhouette of ones of the buildings at Nanzen-in:
A decoration on top of the incense burning area:
A decorative bell:
Some fallen leaves on the moss:
The arches at Nanzen-in:
A decoration on one of the tiled walls:
The aquaduct, going across the top of the arches:
The aquaduct, heading towards the water reservoir:
The beginning of the reservoir:
A bridge:
A boat and a wheel in the reservoir:
A mossy stone bridge leading to a house:
Two grainery-style buildings at a mountain shrine we came upon:
A pretty tree:
Would you go in here?
We did. The ceiling was so low I had to bend a little:
A view of the grainery-style buildings from above:
A bridge on the shrine's grounds:
The torii against the fall leaves:
Some ceramic komainu:
Close-ups:
Some little plates with what I think are prayers or requests to the kami written on them:
Bamboo in the forest:
A holy cow:
More pretty fall colors:
After that, we took the subway home and stopped in a bakery on Kitayama street. Here is what we got:
Teddy's roll cake:
My pie like pastry:
Then, later that evening, we had Thanksgiving dinner with our friend Yoshi. Here is a picture of our feast:
Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, peas and rolls:
It was quite tasty.
The next post will be about Saturday!
A silhouette of ones of the buildings at Nanzen-in:
A decoration on top of the incense burning area:
A decorative bell:
Some fallen leaves on the moss:
The arches at Nanzen-in:
A decoration on one of the tiled walls:
The aquaduct, going across the top of the arches:
The aquaduct, heading towards the water reservoir:
The beginning of the reservoir:
A bridge:
A boat and a wheel in the reservoir:
A mossy stone bridge leading to a house:
Two grainery-style buildings at a mountain shrine we came upon:
A pretty tree:
Would you go in here?
We did. The ceiling was so low I had to bend a little:
A view of the grainery-style buildings from above:
A bridge on the shrine's grounds:
The torii against the fall leaves:
Some ceramic komainu:
Close-ups:
Some little plates with what I think are prayers or requests to the kami written on them:
Bamboo in the forest:
A holy cow:
More pretty fall colors:
After that, we took the subway home and stopped in a bakery on Kitayama street. Here is what we got:
Teddy's roll cake:
My pie like pastry:
Then, later that evening, we had Thanksgiving dinner with our friend Yoshi. Here is a picture of our feast:
Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, peas and rolls:
It was quite tasty.
The next post will be about Saturday!