Tokyo Day 5

In the morning we went to one of the many parks Tokyo has, Ueono Park. It was very beautiful and filled with lots of different shrines.
I can only imagine how gorgeous this park will look when all the cherry blossoms are in bloom!

We stumbled across this huge market place with all pretty Japanese arts and crafts.

We also discovered the park has a Zoo and since we like animals and we had some time, we wandered in. Wow this is one huge zoo! We didn't go through all of it, but it was very nice.

Cuteness at the zoo gift shop.

Sweet vending machines!

After the relaxing morning it was off to the recording studio. My hubby's music was ofcourse the main reason that brought us to Tokyo in the first place!

Love preparing some new lyrics for recording.

Me taking pictures of myself.

After the session the producer and his wife took us to a small local yakitory restaurant, which turned out to be an adventure. It was a lovely little eating house. The owners, husband and wife, were of the old school Japanese and didn't get many Americans in their restaurant, but were very happy to see us. At first they didn't directly talked to us, but through our hosts, which didn't seem strange to us since they spoke Japanese and we didn't. Our friends took us there since we don't eat red meat and a yakitory place there only serve chicken and vegetables. Perfect for us you would think. Our friends did the ordering for us when it became clear that the owners we're about to go on a vacation the next day and didn't have everything in stock. We basically got what they had. Ok, chicken is chicken right? When the first pieces of yakitory came to the table i already had my doubts. Uhoh. This didn't look like chicken. I took one bite and didn't know what to do. I really didn't want to offend the owners, they were so sweet and we're hopefully looking at us, and i didn't want to embarrass our friends, but i could not eat this. What was this? I almost threw up in my mouth. Had to swallow. I looked at my hubby. He wasn't eating but looking at me in pity. Are you allright honey? I can't eat this. I feel so bad.
We learned that in Japan they really use everything from the chicken. Not just the meat. I was eating chicken heart! I finally managed to swallow it by what time everyone noticed me and my husband were not going to finish our skewer. I just couldn't. I am still sorry about this. Luckily the rest of the dinner went better, expect for another skewer of chicken skin. And not crispy grilled, but soft skin. The evening did turn out to be a happy one. Especially since the moment me and my hubby showed off our eating with chopstick skills to the owners, which resulted in a lot of laughs and clapping.
It was late when we left the restaurant, my husband was very tired and had to be rested for the next day. Rehearsal, a radio show and the live show at the album release party!