This is what we saw as we walked into Nara Park - deer action!

Then we realized these little guys were everywhere, and we could feed them!

These deer were so cute and Hank-like - all they cared about is food.

Just hanging out about 3 meters from the busy street - no enclosure at all.

We go the money shot, but not w/out the lady struggling to figure out our camera

There were probably thousands of these deer everywhere!

This is about a 50 foot sculpture behind a mesh screen.

It looks more like a painting from this angle.

Toda-ji Temple set amongts amazing mountainside.

This is supposedly the largest wooden building in the world, and it houses the Daibutsu, the largest Buddhah in Japan.

Cherry blossoms beginning to bloom.

I love the little horn looking things on top of the temple

Cstomary to burn incense before entering the temple.

Daibutsu, the largest Buddhah in Japan.

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See Jason at the bottom to put the Buddhah into size perspective

Little girl feeding from the safer quarters of the car

Wandering around Nara was wonderful1

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Awwww, baby deer!

Finally we found this pond in Nara Lake, after much searching.

We relaxed in the little hexagonal building on the pond for a while, taking in the beautiful scenery.

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Signs everywhere about the deers, yet we had not a clue what they said.

For all we know, they could have been warnings not to do certain things to the deer.

Our second mission of the day, finding a Diet Coke!

Now this may not be considered a mission anywhere else in the world - every vending machine either didn't even carry diet coke, or they were sold out.  This must have been our 8th vending machine that finally yielded the very tasty, and Japans sugary mix of the diet drink.

Turtles everywhere!

More turtles sunbathing on the log. . .

A combo of two of Jason's life favorites - videoa games and drumming!

This video game was actually quite cool, and I even got a chance to drum out a couple songs.  Jason was loving it!