River, Chau, Tiana, and Alexis take a moment to look over the fence and into nature.

Old temple with squeaky floors amongst other enemy notifiers is nestled in the city.

Why walk across a bridge when you can hop across?

Walked half a marathon around Kyoto on our Free-Explore day…

Step 1: Stencil hot wax onto fabric. Step 2: Dye fabric. Step 3: Wear tee with wax design.

Most interesting city map ever.

Learned how to make sushi, and while the actually cooking went well, the cutting did not.

Tea ceremony in the Geisha District.

Find garden with walkthrough of Japanese history here.

Wandered across this…

Hanging paper cranes for luck.

Hang unfortunate fortunes here to be reconsidered by the Gods.

Bamboo forests on the way to the temple…

Beautiful snowy day.

All these statues just amazed me.

Learned how to use this loom machine– so must fun!

***Projects on Kyoto coming soon!