Dad and the Boys in Japan 2

DAY 5 - Today Dad , the boys and Paora came to my school where they had a lesson with one of my classes. this was really cool and like paoras school the boys were again like lil superstars as the students were amazed at the boys and saying "kawaii", "kawaii" again. It was good my students to have a good interaction with the whanau and paora.

DAY6- Today we trooped to kyoto to look at the sights. we visited Toji temple, Kinkakuji, and Ginkakuji. This was a big day but Dad was amazed at the temples and the construction of the temples out of wood, it really blew him away to the piont where he was saying" gee its abit over the top isnt it".all in all it was a great day

DAY 7- today it pissed down with rain , but that did not stop us as we ventured to Hikone castle and checked out the castle and its surroundings.

DAY-8 chilled

DAY 9- today after recharging the batteries we headed to Nara to check out Todaiji temple. The boys were blown away by the deer that were wandering the streets and that you could fed and pet them and also that there were heaps of them. Dad was really impressed with the two huge wooden carvings of the warriors and at first thought that they were carved out of one tree but then after seeing how they did it was impressed at they you couldnt see the joins of the wood.

Dad and the boys were amazed at the sheer size of the temple and the amount of work gone in to build this temple and bronze Budda

DAY 10 - Chilled

DAY 11 - Well today after finding a plank of wood last night, was full on with making a Tewhatewha. Dad asked paora what he should carve, paora suggested a couple of manaia, then dad said why not a Tewhatewha, we then said sweet, and so the was us helping dad with the Tewhatewha. It was cool for paora to see the process of making and carving a tewhatewha and he is interested in having abit more of a tutu when we return home. It was a pretty rough job but for what we had and the resources we had on hand it turned out to be the miki. So a big thanks to dad from me and paora for carving us a tewhatewha.

later on that night we introduced dad and the boys to our favourite restaurant " StaminaTaro" japanese BBQ and all you can eat. This was a cool way to end our time in shiga before heading to Osaka. Dad reckons he might have to build one of those when he gets home...

Day 12 - Well today we all headed to Osaka. We started at USJ universal studios japan. We arrived about 10:15am we tried to do as many of the rides as we could but with all the long cues we did enough till we were nakid. Went on snoopy water slide, jaws, watched the water world show, jurasic park, backdraft and spiderman... an awesome but tiring day..... we all enjoyed the day and left about 6pm. headed back to the hotel and chilled, then headed out for dinner and a look about Osaka. Went up on the huge hep ferris wheel and went for a tiki in a huge gadget store, picked up paul a mp3 player which he was rapt with.

Final Day - Sent the whanau off about 11ish... said our goodbye's... pretty sad but a little envious too... felt like buying a ticket and jumping on with them. but said sayonara and headed on our way home..... so overall was an awesome time having them here with us... really made us forget japan and teaching ... thanks!