Grateful for:

1. Eating at a Russian cafe today: pelmeni, borsch, beef stroganoff, shepherd’s pie and tea with jam.
2. Finishing reading the fascinating Getting Where You Are book yesterday.
3. Going to Kyoto Botanical Garden light up.
4. Visiting conservation domes at night.
5. Seeing cacti as tall as two story building
6. Seeing lots of beautiful plants and flowers.
7. Finishing another Vanuatu website.
8. Watching whole 3 episodes of Rome, the story just keeps getting better.
9. Going to Arashyama light up last night and seeing light up bamboo forest in the rain.
10. Seeing one of the best gardens to date with one of the best views – at night and in the rain.

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• business,
• food,
• Japan,
• Kyoto,
• movies,
• nature