Hotter than yesterday!

The beauty of having five weeks is that you can go hardcore and then take rest days. That's what we did on Tuesday. We spent the morning chilling out, blogging, drinking coffee and then went to Starbucks to meet Karen for some more coffee. After that Jen, Jo and I went to UniQlo to do a bit of shopping. From there we caught the free bus to the onsen--a hot spring spa where you lounge in different hot pools, saunas and have a thorough scrub.

On Wednesday it was back to touring mode. We swung by Meguro and visited the Nature Study Park, which preserves the rainforest flora of the Edo Plain. It was gorgeous--so lush and quiet and in the middle of Tokyo!




Taking a quick break from turtle watching.



Flowers = butterflies, bees and hummingbirds



A chilled out Joanne.



This pond was full of crawfish!


Even though it was close by, owing to the insane heat we took the metro to Tokyo Tower. It is an Eiffel Tower look-a-like. However, it was built in 1958, is red and white and is 13m taller than Paris'. We were going to go up, but the line was a bit long.

After the tower we toured the area known as Roppongi. We sought out some contemporary art galleries, but they were closed as this week is a Japanese holiday.

Then we were attacked by one of Tokyo's many roving mad robots!!!

This is Maman, in front of Mori tower. This is a new development that has transformed the neighbourhood. It is very fancy, full of fancy shops and fancy restaurants--too fancy for us.

Awww, aren't we cute?