Japan: Back to Kawagoe! Nikko meets my folks!

Kai in front of Tenkai at Kita-in temple.  A head priest of the temple back in 1590.  

Back in Nippon!  It's always a shock.  Soooo many people, so much infrastructure, so many buttons on your toilet seat, and everyone riding bikes without helmets on.  It's good to be back.  The food here is amazing... now only if I could get a decent IPA in Japan... after our flight it took a few days of adjusting (... as in Kai would wake up at 4 am), but overall the jetlag wasn't that bad.  And with my folks around to help when the kids need to be helped, we adjusted rather quickly.  Here are some pics from the first few days of our trip.

Ojiichan teaching Nikko to dance

Nikko made Obaachan happy with no effort.

Thomas!  Turns out he's big here in Japan too!

Kai eating Ramen.  He's gotta learn to slurp... 

Our makeshift Bumbo for the first 2 days...

then we found this one!  Booya!