All Aboard! When I found out that Thomas the Tank Engine was coming to Seattle for the Day Out With Thomas: The Steam Team Tour 2019, I immediately hopped on the wagon…errr the train! Avery’s not really a fan on Thomas per se, but he is a fan of trains! Every time he sees the [...]
Now on it’s 10th year and safe to say there were MUCH fewer injuries than in Pampona! Plus, they’re were goats running along as well!
I absolutely LOVE to see a city from a birds eye view. So it was no question that I had to see the Tokyo Tower while visiting Tokyo. The Tower is 1,092 feet tall, which is just a couple hundred feet shorter than the Empire State Building! Tokyo Tower is a self-supporting, steel lattice tower [...]
A giant robot is exactly what many Americans picture when they think of Tokyo. Right?!? Or is it just me?!? Getting to Odaiba was an adventure in itself! We got lost by which trains to take and when to get off. But we eventually made it there! Those who visit Odaiba, an artificial island in [...]
Being one of Tokyo’s oldest neighbourhoods, it’s almost no question what things to do in Asakusa: the Sensoji Temple (also known as The Asakusa Kannon temple) grounds is one of the main highlight of the area and just such a great place to explore! Before entering the temple complex, you enter through the Kaminarimon (‘kaminari’ = thunder [...]
Forget traditional museums as you know it because it’s about to get much sweeter than that. I’m a sucker for sweet treats, so you can imagine my eagerness to make it to the Dessert Museum - a world of giant candies and confectionery, where you can feast your eyes on all sorts of magnificent sights. [...]
I’ve always wondered how the world would look upside down…so glad we stumbled upon this topsy-turvy town at the “Upside Down Museum”! So much fun trying to get all creative and using your imagination to create a picture out of what your eyes see as backwards, inside-out and upside down!
