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      <image:caption>On our way home from the bouldering gym, the search for the white whale continued at this adorable store called Itimi. We found the Ashley Williams holy grail. My dream dress (way out of my price range, an XXS, and not practical at all, but a girl can dream). They also had the matching trash flats to this dress, which are what I have truly been searching for (that and anything in her custom bunny print that I can get my hands on), but they were a 39 shoe instead of a 40! So close!!!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>if any of you actually made it this far you are amazing and get a gold star! thank you for reading:)))))</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>still not quite sure what this was but it was very good. It is a cold square scrambled egg on a stick but it was sweet like watermelon or cantaloupe. Overall 8.5/10</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One can’t go to Tsukiji fish market without getting fresh fish, so our last stop was a sushi counter where we got 4 pieces of tuna with all different cuts. If you know anything about mer this is her holy grail. Overall 12/10</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The sushi counter also had fresh salmon sashimi available and we couldn’t resist. Overall 10.5/10</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We don’t have a lot of pictures from shopping but our final destination was a store called Gentle Monster. A cool sunglasses brand with interactive art inside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The flavor of this was amazing, but the texture was… less than ideal. We were super excited about this one, so we were kind of bummed it didn’t live up to our expectations. Overall 6/10</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One thing about japan is that unless you are shopping at a grocery store fruit is not that easy to come by. Needless to say we were very excited to see this strawberry stand amongst the market. We got strawberries on a stick, strawberry and cream sando, and the fan favorite Daifuku Mochi (pictured). Overall 9.5/10</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I binge-watched two Sophia Coppola movies and still had 8 hours of flight left so Conner and I started a new season of Survivor. Mixed in with lots of intermittent sleeping and chatting.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>and so we were off! after a slight panic regarding if the taxi took credit cards we mustered the courage to call one over. Then we were on our way. Through endless underground tunnels which had to have been miles long.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tokyo is so much greener than we had expected! It is so beautiful and clean, even the air smells different. During check-in instead of replying “yes” in Japanese (hai) or English, Conner decided to take a journey to visit our South American friends and responded “si” and almost let a señor slip out. After we checked into our hotel, we took much-needed showers and headed out to the most life-changing 7/11 ever. We are so excited to explore more tomorrow after hopefully many many hours of sleep. Enjoy some photos of Conner in our cool PJs we got from the hotel, a bit of our room, and our walk to 7/11!</image:caption>
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