Sunday after lunch (which was okonamiyaki- one of my new favorites), the grandmother, mom, and aunt dressed me in kimono and then we went all over taking pictures. Putting on a kimono is a very complicated process! There are at least 10 parts one has to wear, and you can't do it alone; it took proabably 45 minutes to get me all dressed. It was very fun, though. The obi I am wearing in this picture (obi is the patterned belt-like thing in the middle) cost 800,000 yen [that's about $8,000!!!]. We were taking so many pictures, I felt like a Japanese movie star.