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This past week was pretty standard, but my weekend was busy....

On Sunday I went to Kamakura (southwest of Tokyo, on the Pacific Ocean side) and saw the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine. After meeting some friends, we headed to the shopping district in Kamakura and then the shrine. There was a wedding taking place at the shrine, so it was neat to see the bride and groom in their traditional clothing as they left.

This is a statue at the entrance to the shrine. There was one on each side of the bottom of a large staircase leading up to the main shrine.

Here is the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine. It was huge and beautiful. It is hard to believe that this building was moved here in 1108. Some of the buildings here are so old and well-kept, that is hard to believe they are that old.

On Monday, it was a national holiday here in Japan. Some of my staff decided that we should all go to Disneyland in Tokyo. The weather was great, and one of the families that take lessons at our school also happened to be there. We spent the day at the park, which was at capacity. It was busy but fun nonetheless. We rode all of the main attractions and also checked out the Halloween stuff (they don't really celebrate Halloween over here).

Those are the highlights for this week. Hope everyone is doing well!