Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Yokohama-Part 2-Giant Ferris Wheel

I know I am a little slow posting the rest of our outing, but here it is FINALLY!! I hopefully will be catching our blog up to speed within the next week. Anyways, so last month we went to Yokohama. After going to Chinatown we walked along the waterfront to the Giant ferris wheel. This is one of the largest ferris wheels in the world and also doubles as the world's largest clock. It takes about 15 minutes to go all the way around and you get some SPECTACULAR views of the city.
As we were walking along the bay, we saw a ton of interesting things. First was that they were having a huge Octoberfest. It was kind of funny to hear German music and see tons of Japanese drinking beer and celebrating a german holiday. We also walked by and there was a HUGE crowd around this guy. We thought he must be pretty good, but Eric and I just laughed because it was about one of the worst street performers we have ever seen.

Giant Ferris Wheel--it is at a little amusement park.
This is a famous spa--you can kind of see all the people on top of the roof soaking their feet.
Japanese are notorious for building things on top of roofs. Here is a mini golf course on top of a roof.
Team Nelson in the giant Ferris Wheel--look at Ethan and Kailey--don't they look like they are having TONS of fun!!

We thought this was a funny game to have--you had to throw things into the cup of noodles

Kailey playing in Anpanman

Kailey riding Anpanman--he is everywhere!
Eric thought this was cool, so he took a picture of it--it is a wall that has grass growing on it.

1 comment:

brooketolman said...

in your family picture, eric looks like he's having the most fun. Typical dad.