By Will

Today we woke up to have a good breakfast at a random coffee bar in the fancy district of Karashiki. The person there served us really good fresh-squeezed orange juice. Then we had eggs followed by toast, bacon and tea.

We walked along the canal when we saw a bunch of guys with rice hats next to boats. They were offering rides. We did it and got to wear rice hats like them. It turns out those hats were REALLY uncomfortable. But I wore it anyway because they looked cool. Our boat driver talked to us about baseball. It was really cool.

We wandered around for a while before getting on a train to go biking. We rented some old rickety bikes from the little old lady who worked at the shop. She told us to follow the little bike signs and we will be fine (yeah right!). The last time I rode a bike was like…uh… two years ago. So I bet you can guess how THAT started. Of course we had no helmets so It was a little different. We followed the signs for a while before getting lost my mom and dad argued for a while before Helen said “Uh guys?” She pointed out where to go and we finished the next three miles smoothly (Trust me three miles are not hard on a bike.) We stopped at a little temple and Helen got a good luck charm. We were almost to the end when Helen fell into a rice paddy while taking a picture. She got up fast and said, “Is there straw on my back?” We returned our bikes and went to dinner at a pizza restaurant (I know in Japan? Ha!). It had really good pizza. After that we went back to the hotel.

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