I’ve been enjoying our Asia trip, but it’s definitely been a fair bit city focused. I was seriously feeling the need to “touch grass”, so I signed the girls and myself* for a half day trip rafting. It was about 45 minutes by train outside Kyoto. The river was pretty, and we really enjoyed swimming and jumping off rocks. The experience of being on a guided raft was a little weird at this point. Either of the girls could have easily captained the raft without an issue on this river, which was easy class 2, but the guide didn’t even have us paddle in the rapids, just drop into the middle of the boat.

Sooo, not exactly perfect, but still a really enjoyable outing.

*Kim would have enjoyed rafting, but Kim’s mom would not, so they stayed in Kyoto and went shopping and got a massage.