tokyo day 2! snow!

the next day, we woke up to discover that it is snowing!! so happy! yuki (snow) everywhere! we never expected it to snow. what a pleasant surprise.
from the hotel room, we overlooked the railway tracks which are all covered with snow. i love snow. looking at the snow always fills my heart up with a quiet kind of happiness. thank you for letting me be there to enjoy this moment.
my frozen smile. : )
today we will be heading for shimokitazawa and then to kichijoji. this is our 5th time to tokyo so we decide to visit the areas just a little away from the hustle and bustle of downtown tokyo.
the snow getting heavier... yippee..
kym's favourite shop - ragtag. it sells secondhand designers items which are just as good as brand new ones, at a much reduced price. brands like comme de garcons, frapbois, mercibeacoup, number (n)ine, undercover, tsumori chisato, marni, hussein chalayan, anything you name it. this trip alone, we went to 5 ragtags. kym's aim: to visit all ragtags in tokyo.
then we went to kichijoji to shop around and then visited the ghibli museum of animaton. if you like anime, you will love hayao miyazaki. and this musuem shows you the creation of the characters like totoro and my favourite, howl's moving castle. i love this photo. the shop, the colour of the pail, the wall, the falling snow, the little fence round the tree...
we walk across the bridge through the park to get to the museum, its just beautiful everywhere i look.
i planned to do the duck paddle boat but its closed due to the heavy snow. next time maybe. : ) i love the swans.
i love the feeling of snow falling on my face (freezing) and also eating the snow. kimochi ne..


then as we walked on, we met Mame (which means beans), this cute little inu who wants to play boru (ball) with us. and on that day, its actually the Setsubun celebrated yearly on the 3 Feb where you are supposed to throw beans. the special ritual of bean throwing (mamemaki) in the temple is to cleanse away all the evil of the former year and drive away disease-bringing evil spirits for coming year. what a co-incidence, we did not throw beans but instead we met a dog call bean. mame kept wanting to play with us, after some broken japanese with his owner, we finally understood he wants us to kick the boru. it was so fun! i am so happy! well at least i have some encounter with bean that day so it should keep us away from evil spirits this year! hehe.
peko peko dinner time! ramen shop along the street. i had moyahi (beansprouts) ramen! atsui (hot)!
tonite, kym fell asleep halfway through viewing the photos we took in the afternoon. again, this is not posed. hahahaha. his fingers are firmly clasped on the camera. sugoii ne.....