Carla, Cody and I visited Kyoto for the last time today... Sadly it was a cloudy day, but we still had fun and visited the most famous temple in Kyoto: the golden pavillon. The temple was of course gorgeous but it would have been more spectacular on a sunny day to see the reflection in the lake. There were many visitors from all over but especially grade schoolers going around interviewing strangers to practice their English I guess.
When we exited the gardens we noticed there was a traditional Japanese tea house where we could sip Japanese green tea with a traditional "golden pavillon" treat. We tried it and the tea was sumptuous but overly priced. I was a bit disappointed that this was not a tea ceremony, but just having tea with a little treat in a nice tea house.
We then left for a restaurant called "Bikkuri Donkii" or Surprised Donkey. This restaurant is American-far-west themed and well themed at that. Cody and I had seen another franchise of this restaurant in downtown Osaka and had always wanted to go there so when we saw there was one in Kyoto we took the opportunity to go. The was alright and not too expensive.. the best part about the restaurant is the ambiance and the decor.
That day I told goodbye to Carla and gave her a rendez-vous in Hong Kong in two weeks.
Tomorrow we will be packing up and spending time with the host family because it will be the last day Cody will be there.
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