Good Luck and Bad Luck

Today, we went to Imperial Palace and Nijo Castle in Kyoto. What a huge place the palace is... and what a bummer to figure out that the palace is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.... we walked on and on until I finally asked a gurad and knew if its open or not.

A piece of advice, people who might want to go see this place should be careful not to be too close to the wall/fense. Like we did, an alarm will be set off and scare you.

So, in the morning, we had little fan. But in the afternoon at the Nijo Castle, we happened to be able to see an hawk show which is held twice a year! What a good luck we had! As usual, I took bunch of pictures.

Also, today is the first day to perform in public for this girl and her hawk who are blinking in this photo.

A hawk was thrown in to the air by a performer like this.