Tired again... heres a short summary of today:
Ginkaku-ji: Silver pavilion, not so silver… undergoing construction but the garden path was very pretty.
Shisen-do: Poets house… he was a hermit and lived there alone… pretty amazing, sat on the engawa forever
Saiho-ji: Moss temple garden place… had to learn calligraphy to enter to show your devotion… we entered a temple with a couple monks and about 60 people… we each had our own calligraphy set and paper to trace the writings… the recited the prayer and then we copied it… pretty sure it meant we were accepting Buddhism… guess I’m Buddhist now
Daisen-In: House for the rock star monk of them all… he is a really good poet and famous… guess he has his own tv show… he was there and took a picture with us and talked to us…. Then he signed our sketchbooks… he was a ladies man because all he would say was
“What is your name?”
“Kate”
“Ahhh Kate… beautiful name, beautiful girl, beautiful mother and beautiful father”
Or something like that… he was quite hilarious… we also had green tea and a cookie in the tea room
Then I went to my first Japanese bathroom and might I say I am quite awesome at it… no problems yet

Tonight we went out searching for a 400 year old bookstore but we think it was closed… found a lot of shopping… mostly closed but I did manage to buy a few things… a duck of course and some souvenirs for others… I swear my English is getting worse as we try to speak Japanese… oh well… more pics…