September 29, 2009

Took off to Ueno, which is near Asakusa. We had originally planned to make Ueno one of the stops for yesterday, but some of the things there are closed on Mondays and Fridays. We saw a couple more shrines in the beautiful park.

Yes...it was raining...yes, Grace managed to find a teal umbrella!

Johnny took us to Torihage for dinner. The owner, Kato-san had taken very good care of Kyle and Kevin during their visits in 2004 and 2006, respectively. It was absolutely wonderful to meet him and his family. There couldn’t be a more wonderful family. He served us one of the best meals ever.

This was a dish Kyle and Kevin raved about. It's layers of potato...and bacon. Ho-LEEEE! Now we're raving about it, too!

We then went to have a drink at his son, Ken’s bar which was down the street.

After that, we went to one more restaurant managed by a most joyful old woman. She’s simply known as “the old woman”—or Obasan. The tiniest woman and she remembers and misses our oldest son—who is about 6ft 3in. She can’t speak English and his Japanese was, at the time, very limited. They managed to communicate well enough and it was one of Kyle’s favorite haunts during his long visit.