Kyoto!

Me and Rebecca (バカ先生）went to Kyoto for our last (so sad ;_;) 3 day weekend, it cost us 14,000 yen to get there and it cost us the same to get back -_-

Anyways, as the Shinkansen is getting closer to Kyoto the towns/cities that we pass are covered in snow. (We were in a hurry that morning so i didn't get a chance to check the weather before leaving) When we get there, it's snowing. I of course don't really care cuz it's snow. It was soo pretty... then we had to try to find our hostel with unpaved streets -_- not very fun. Every where you go it's really slippery. We took about 20-25 min walking from the station to our hostel(the next day all the streets were paved and it took us 10 min to walk to the station).

On our first day we saw some temples and we went to a handy-craft store where i painted my own fan ^_^
dinner we went to a Japanese-Kyoto restaurant where i drank sake...yummy

On the second day we went to Nijo-jo (castle) where they have nightingale floors which make the floors "sing" as you walk on them.
For lunch we had some awesome ramen in a little mom n pop ramen shop.
after that we tried finding the Anime Museum, but didn't see it (ok so we really didn't "look" for it, just looked around while we headed back to the station).
We headed back to the hostel for a bit, it was getting hot under all the layers of clothes since we thought it was going to be cold like the day before.
Wrong!

After that brief detour we head for the Golden Temple.
while there we noticed that there were no toilet paper there and that you had to have some tissue or buy some, oh and you can't flush it either.
*note* there is a gold and silver temple but only the golden temple is covered in gold

Later the night we had a Japanese dinner and then did some karaoke with of course something to drink
*note* at karaoke places you can order food, dessert, and drinks (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
We then went to the lovely Starbucks to cool down.

When we got back to our hostel they were still recording a TV show, which is like a comedy hour kinda thing. We thought we were coming back late enough to be over, so we stood by the side and watched....
then they asked if there were any other American's around. I whispered "we are" thinking no one will hear us, but no, the nearest guy to us did and he was part of the crew and when "the audience" (other guest) didn't respond (which i didn't know, couldn't see them) they quickly turned the camera to us to ask us about if we knew the American comedian they(the American guest taking part of the show) were talking about.
we of course didn't know who the hell they were talking about since i only know Hispanic comedians.

Next day we went to see the temple with over 300 tori (red gates). i didn't expect to stay for an hour there, it's a temple. We were just going to take some photos and leave....we ended up staying there for 2 hrs! but it was fun so it was ok.

We finally left for home around 2 pm and we didn't get home til about 8 pm.
It was a long commute but we still had fun ^_^