a day of walking, drinking beer and eating sushi

hey everyone!
how goes it? I've had quite a good day, not nearly as busy as yesterday but still pretty tiring... we caught the train down to Kyoto station, which is literally HUGE - ten floors of shopping mall around it

- then walked up to Sanjusangendo temple, which is a national heritage site(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjusangendo) as its main hall hosts 1000 armed kannon, a type of buddha statue, and a huge seated buddha. The statues were beautiful, and the work that went into hand-carving them each individually is inconceivable. Unforntunately we couldn't take any photos, but I took a couple of the exterior of the hall. This is one of the most famous and popular temples in kyoto, as it is right in the centre of the city, so it was pretty overdeveloped and commercialised compared to the smaller ones we visited yesterday....

After this we caught the underground up to the gallery and spoke with Takaya about the exhibition. A few compromises were made, but I think everyone's okay, apart from Kosho who feels like he's being tested a bit (kind of like Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kinobi, but a little less positive). But it all got a bit better - we met Helga Weiss, who has a show on at Weissraum at the moment and a couple of other people involved with the gallery, and we all had sushi and beer (which for Ross and I was rather challenging, as neither of us have drank much for a long time, and they kept topping our glasses up!Also, it was 5pm....). The food was good, and I even ate octopus and more chicken!
We then spent a while wandering around looking for party hats (ross wants to put hats on all 1200 raikan statues at Kosho's temple) and ended up on the roof of Kyoto station, enjoying a pretty epic view! So now we're back home and pretty tired - Ross has crashed out, but was talking about sleeping up in the temple tonight and I'm going to hit the sack pretty soon too I think.

ross at weissraum
Hope everything's good back home.
love