Wed Oct 5, Birthday, Ghibli and Unagi

Today's my birthday, and Chika and her mom and I went to Mitaka so I could show them the Ghibli museum. This was the only day it has rained on us since we got to Japan, but it was okay since we were going to be inside most of the time. We took the obligatory photos out front with the giant Totoro in the ticket booth and up stairs with the statue of the robot from Laputa




Then we went back home just in time for Chika's dad to pick us up from the station and we all went to a fantastic unagi restaurant (river fish in general, actually) where we had unagi no kimo (guts), unagi, koi no arai. It was all really good, and made for a perfect birthday dinner.





Then we went home and got packed =( But then Chika's dad stayed up late enough for us to have one last evening of drinking together, and Chika and I drew an eye on the daruma that we bought in Ikaho.