When we were planning our trip to Tokyo I called my brother to tell him and found out that he was also randomly planning his own trip to Tokyo at the same time to see the Tokyo International Film Festival. We decided to combine trips in a way – he is staying with us sleeping on the living room couch and in exchange he is our personal babysitter. It works for both of us 
Rowan LOVES her uncle and he is getting smothered under her attentions, but is hanging in there quite well. For those of you who don’t know my brother – he is quite a bit younger than me at a youthful 21 years old! I feel kind of bad for him because we are so laid back and go to bed early and wake up at the crack of dawn. He took a crazy flight here with 3 layovers and a total of 30 something hours travel time and stayed awake for the whole thing! He is a champ though and was able to sleep through the night on his first night here. Of course Rowan woke him up at 6 am. He is a musician for a living and couldn’t believe that it was 6 o’clock in the morning – in his words “this is not an hour that I am familiar with”.
Last night – Friday night – he was determined to hit the town. He was solo though because Jason and I rarely see it past 10 o’clock. When we got up this morning he told us all about his night out. Apparantly he spent over $100 on 4 drinks. Needless to say he is quite bummed and won’t be hitting the town for the rest of his time here. Looks like he is stuck hanging out with the family…
Here are some pics of the past couple of days – at a temple/shrine we visited; going out to eat; and one is of Jacob on his first night here. We went and got some food from some vendors and sat in Shibuya square eating and checking it all out. He kept giggling. We also had tea with some yoga students after class one day and there is a picture of that too. There is a mother /daughter here who practiced with our teacher in Encinitas a bit and they have been super nice and sweet with Rowan. Also, a woman from Mexico who brought her tablas and wants to have some kind of jam session with my brother in a park. Wonder what the Japanese will think of that?
