Wednesday night Matt came in and informed me we were headed to Tokyo the next day. We need to go to the Immigration Office and start the process on changing our visas from 90 day to long term. We hit the 10:00 am train to Tokyo and went straight to the Immigration Office to get that out of the way. Matt’s experience with the Immigration Office is it can make for a very long day. We must have picked a good day because we were in and out in less than an hour. So we headed out for lunch. We decided on a quick, cheap lunch so we could get going and then have a nice dinner. We went to a little fast food restaurant by the station and got gyudon (thinly sliced beef on top of rice in a bowl).

We had decided the night before to have a Reagan friendly day so after lunch we headed to the Ueno Zoo. It was a pretty big zoo but we found our favorite spot only five minutes in. They had spider monkeys! I now know what my favorite zoo animal is. Seth went as far as to ask Katie if he could take one home. They swing around like crazy and use their tails like another limb. Even though we could have spent the whole day just watching them, we managed to pull ourselves away and check out the rest of Ueno Zoo. I have to admit though we did come back before we left to stare in awe of them for a few more minutes. It took us over four hours to see the whole zoo. Reagan loved it but it was really hot and naptime so she did get a little fussy about half way through. She crashed out for a bit but didn’t sleep long . . . too much going on around us. I think her favorite part was either the monkeys or the petting zoo. They had a section with rabbits, baby chickens, mice, and guinea pigs that you could hold and play with.

After the Zoo we went to a little amusement park for kids right across from the Zoo. Reagan rode a few ride and we got some ice cream. We went to the park to eat our ice cream and let her play for a bit. Pretty much a perfect day for an almost two year old: Zoo, rides, ice cream, and a playground.

We did try to sneak a few pictures as a family into the day but Reagan was way more interested in playing.

After the park we were all getting hungry so we decided to head back towards the train station and just find something close. We found a great curry restaurant on top of this huge electronic store. It was really good. I am falling in love with this thing called Naan. It is right up there with tortillas and the cheese naan is a pretty good replacement for a good ‘ole quesadilla. We caught the 8:00 pm train home and called it a night. The trips to Tokyo really wear us out.