Nara, Japan (by Jacob)

On Thursday, we went to visit Nara. Nara is a city in the countryside of Japan. When we got to Nara we rented bikes because it was a great place to ride bikes. We went to a huge park where there are 1200 deer that just wander around the park and part of the city. When we stopped our bikes the deer came right up to us because they thought we had food. Every few hundred feet there was a person selling deer biscuits where we could buy some. I went up there with my mom and the guy gave the biscuits to my mom.  All of a sudden a swarm of deer came up to my mom but my mom got scared so she gave them to me and the rest to my dad. So my dad just kept on giving them to the deer, but my dad also gave me two so he didn't have to feed them all. One of the deer bit my dad in the butt two times!

Then after the biscuits were all gone we rode to a huge temple. The temple was the biggest wooden building in the world. The building we saw today was only 2/3 the size of the original building. Inside there were three huge Buddhas and a huge sculpture of a warrior. My favorite part of the temple was this little hole you can try to go though. I went through the hole really easily because I'm small. They say that if you can make it through the hole, it will bring you enlightenment.

 For lunch we ate at a really small restaurant in an alley.  It was a really good traditional Japanese meal of soba, okonimyaki (Japanese pancake), and udon.