Here's how we look on the way to Otokoyama.
Olya models the complete ticket set-- this is before we will spend these on four (*FOUR*) sets of tea and sweets.
This is where the kencha is.
Other Gakuen students on their way in.
Everyone gets an attractive rosy glow when photographed inside an orange shrine.
Aliisa and Paivi may have thought they had cool iPhone cameras, but Lindsey's invisible hand camera blows their silly Apple technology out of the water.
My favorite thing in this picture is the white elephant. Do you see it?
Aliisa and Paivi say that this is not some sort of Finnish national uniform, but we are not convinced. To be fair, we ended up with two in grey, two in green, two in almost-identical-purple (see below), and for awhile we had Kyoko who matched Sarah's red.
Adorable children being brought for 7-5-3 day pictures and so on.
First seki sweets-- the same as from kencha. But Linda gets so small next to them!
They are also very delicious. I saved one for the next day (the cherry blossom. I just ate it about an hour ago.)
Autumnal soba-- an incredibly dangerous meal to eat without a table or tray or tatami while in solid color silk kimono!
These ladies came coordinated.
Hamana sensei did not manage to score a seat, so he got special backward service.
LOOK AT THAT DRAGONFLY LID REST!
Leaving the main tea on special day of bonus mats out into the garden.
Mine are the red ones.
All finished and kicking it on the Kiku couch (chrysanthemum).
What is this and why is it at the shrine?
Also, there is a memorial to Edison because apparently he used bamboo from this place to make the first lightbulb. They celebrated with a big stone AND an electric car charging station! Tesla is probably cursing in his grave.
All the boys just dropped their fancy pants right at the entrance. This is very mittomonai [disgraceful] (and you can see that they know it.)
Purple twinsies, unfortunately a bit blurry (it was dim) in kimono magazine photo shoot style.
The cable car takes us back down.
Then we ended up in Gion for a bit. Had a real-live-Maiko sighting, and were ourselves relentlessly sighted by camera-wielding tourists of the Japanese variety.
Lindsey displays the Penguin drink at Sarasa.
Linda contemplates beer, which is actually small but appears large in camera-perspective.
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