World Heritage Fun

We are desperately trying to make it through the World Heritage Sites of Kyoto. Actually I think we are going to give ourselves permission to miss a few. Yesterday we took a train journey to Nara for the day where there are another 8 and only managed to make it to two. The kids are really feeling like vacationing in Japan, so we are letting them. We went to two WH sites yesterday in Nara one was a big bronze Buddha at the Todai-ji Temple (this time it was the building that was the largest wooden structure in the world not the Buddha itself, he is only the largest in Japan at a mere 16meters). The other was the second largest (by a few centimeters) pagoda in Japan at the Kofukuji temple.

The main hit of the day was the deer they have wandering around town. There are apparently over a thousand deer wandering around the huge park there. There are people all over who sell some sort of deer pancakes to feed them. We bought a couple of rounds of pancakes ($1.50 for about 8 wafers) for the kids to feed the deer, then Heather invested heavily on her own behalf. It was a nice sunny day and there is lots of shade in the park (thank goodness because we accidently tried to take the sunscreen in our carryon to Japan and got it and the Crayola kid scissors confiscated--things find their way to the bottom of the bags--we thought we had taken all the contraband out...I actually got written up onto some sort of list because of trying to carry the scissors on).