Wednesday-Kappabashi Dori with dad, Thursday-Morning tea and Friday at the library

Hey everyone,
On Wednesday we had another day off and we decided to take my dad to Kappabashi Dori (ka-pa-ba-she door-ee). My dad really enjoyed it there because there was a lot of different cooking things to look at. We walked into soooooooooooooooo many different stores with knives, bowls, pots, pans and every other cooking implement under the sun. We bought a bamboo steamer (no it doesn't steam bamboo, mmmmm steamed bamboo) and a ceramic knife. A ceramic knife is a lot better than the ordinary steel knife because they never go blunt and it doesn't cross contaminate food (basically if you cut up a fish and wash it then cut up a potato the potato doesn't taste like the fish). Ceramic knives are also super sharp. They also add a metal thing in the knife when the make them so you can't sneak one past the metal detectors at airports. On Thursday we went out for morning tea with my mum's friend Sanae (San-eye). We went to the Yostuya (Yot-soo-ya) Atre (part of the train station) to a cafe/bakery called PAUL. I had a massive chocolate tartlet (I decided after that I'd never have a whole one by myself again). It was really yummy (and hard to cut into with a plastic fork). After we had morning tea we went upstairs in the Atre to get hair cut for my brother. That took for-ever. I had my iPod with me but it ran out of battery after a bit (which was super annoying cause I had nothing to do). After my brother got his hair cut we walked down to Yotsuya San-chome (san-cho-may).We walked in and out of shops. We found a video rental store but the selection was limited. On Friday we walked to a library. They had an English section. Mum got some cook books and some other books, my brother got the 3rd part of Lord of the Rings and I got a book that I thought was cool but it turned out to be BORING!! On Friday night there was a small earthquake. It was a bit scary cause the whole building started shaking. Up the top on the 6th floor (the floor we're on) had a lot of swing, that kind of made it worse.

Bye for now,
Chloe