By Will

KYOTO, Japan, November 27, 2012, 9:28 p.m.–Today was a  really fun day but I am just going to tell you about the “experience” we had at vegetarian dinner at a Zen temple. We got there and took off our shoes at the entrance. The monk told us where the bathroom was and I thought we were supposed to GO there so everyone went to the table and I went to the bathroom. I put on these slippers and then got lost. I finally found our table.

For one, we had the whole room to ourselves and chairs were not just ANY chairs they were super awesome puffy rotating chair thingys–they were GREAT. They first brought out a plate of many different small pieces of beautiful food (I had NO idea what it all was). And we took turns picking what we were going to eat. So far everything was pretty good. It was lots of tofu and different things. We came to this little bowl of fried peas. The peas were great plus you could eat the dried seaweed bowl (Uh.. well I HOPE we could because we DID)

Then came out this pink thingymabop. I thought all the food so far was GREAT so I did not expect any TROUBLE from it. I went ahead and took a great big BITE out of it. I chewed and chewed and… AAHH It was worse than pancakeflabbergast! I gagged in front of everyone. Man I SERIOUSLY needed a emergency banana.

I managed to eat it. After that it was pretty good for the rest of it. We had some pickled ginger (that’s pretty spicy) and…I probably should have NOT eaten it in ONE bite I was not feeling GrEAT after that. There was rice and stuff but I did not eat much. We got a cab back to the hotel and Dad and I went to the hot baths. And I came back and wrote this blog, while we watched a crazy Japanese dancing competition.