Saturday, January 26, 2013

Yokohama

 Our first trip to Yokohama! This is Dane standing in front of a really cool piece of art, not sure what it is called! It took us about an 1hr to 1hr30mn to get Yokohama. We left by ourselves and were able to figure out the trains, we feel very confident now that we could get anywhere we need to go. It was a really fun experience reading the train schedules and figuring out which lines to be on, it is actually much easier than we thought. Once we arrived in Yokohama, we exited out of queens east gate and were in a mall, where we met Lena, Chris and Gabe. I had some phad thai for lunch and Dane had curry. Beau had some milk! ;) We looked around in the mall and surprisingly the Japanese culture is completely enamored with Hawaii. They have Hawaiian stuff everywhere. Another cool thing about this mall was that it had a complete men and women's nursing/changing room! It had 3 or 4 big changing tables, a big circle seat in the middle and two close door nursing/changing rooms for people who needed a more private atmosphere, they also had sinks, instructions for making bottles of milk and all sort of things for moms and dads.I thought this was really neat, and wish we had such nice accommodations at home! After experiencing some of queens east mall we went out into the city, it was beautiful outside, however super windy!! Me and Lena are becoming pro ergo nursers!

 This is an old Japanese dry dock in the city square! You can go down into the dry dock, as Dane shows you below.

 This is the Yokohama ferris wheel, I brought my giant lense today thinking that I wouldn't need my small lens, to my surprise, my giant lens really zooms! I had to be super far away to just get this picture! Ha!
 Here is the water! Right outside the city square.



 Me and Lena in the mall getting some Gelato! I had pistachio and milk flavor! She had fudge and chocolate strawberry! So good!

 Red brick warehouse!! Awesome mall!
 Beau's not too happy!


 Giant arch. Couldn't get it all ins since the lens is too big.
 World porters, another mall we went too. Lots of malls in Yokohama.
 That is Landmark Tower in the background! Really windy!!

 Me and the Voths walking down the street in Yokohama,back to the trains!

In the subway, there were some really old huge safe door hanging on the wall that we thought were pretty neat!

Back home to Sakura after a long day of walking and sight seeing! Having a great time in Japan!

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