Our first visitor!

Rikki was officially our first visitor from home! She just left today and we had a WONDERFUL time with her while she was here. We called her our "test dummy" because she's the first out of 5 people that are going to be coming to see us throughout the next month or two. So we got to experiment with her what types of things were the best to go see and do! Her first day here, Bea and I took her to the Imperial Palace while the boys were at practice. It was pretty cool (even though we were looking for an actual single building, when finally we realized that you can only go inside the East gardens, not the actual palace itself.)

It was a lot of walking and poor Rikki was extremely jet-lagged. But she was a TROOPER! We took some good pictures that day because the weather was actually fairly decent. She also got to go and see 2 of Ty's games (and they won both of them! Woohoo!) We went and saw "A Christmas Carol" in IMAX 3-D so that she could experience a Japanese movie theater, where you have assigned seats and adult booster chairs!

We went on a double decker (roofless) bus tour that took us around the heart of Tokyo and to Tokyo tower and the Rainbow Bridge (which was GORGEOUS right as the sun started to go down at 4pm!) We shopped quite a bit, but unfortunately decided to save Shibuya and Harajuku shopping for the last day. Unfortunate because it POUREDDDDD. It was raining when we woke up, but we decided we would be fine with umbrellas and jackets. Wrong. Two hours into our excursion our feet were soaked (and we were both actually wearing real shoes, not just flip-flops), and we were frozen to the bone.

We kept going to Harajuku where I discovered a 4-storyForever 21 and H&M! Awesome! But we didn't really have the patience to go in (there was a quadrillion people everywhere and we were starting to get irritated from all the umbrellas smacking us while we were making our way through the area!)Note to those who have yet to visit still: Personal space is not an option here. You deal with it or you freak out. Those are the options you have. Some days we can deal, some days we crack under the pressure. But people don't wait for you to be nice. You need to be pushy to survive here. That's just how it goes!

Anywho, we had a great time with Rikki. And hopefully she had a great time too! Next up: Adam....coming tomorrow!