\nEveryone was told to wear red, white and green, so this was all we could come up with. Not pictured- our red knee socks!
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe run and party was thrown by my friends Kuang and Mai. I thought I’d also share another snippet of a busy day with my visitors- going to the Tokyo Sky Tree<\/a> The Sky Tree is the world’s second tallest structure. It’s also just really pretty! Tomorrow: running 5 miles then back to tanabata dance class! I’m excited because I haven’t been since my friends arrived a few weeks ago. Will be good to see my dance pals again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Wednesday! I had a wonderfully lazy Wednesday because it was my rest day! I just worked on cleaning up the apartment and now that my visitors are gone and I have the time, started studying more diligently for my CPT exam. I’m hoping to take the test when I’m stateside this fall! I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,364,293,275,63,76,272,11,363,365,362,187],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baking","tag-cinco-de-mayo","tag-cooking","tag-cupcakes","tag-disneyland","tag-friends","tag-hash-house-harriers","tag-japan","tag-sightseeing","tag-sumo-hash","tag-tokyo-sky-tree","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMai and I
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\nAfter the run, Kuang brought out a ton of delicious home made Mexican food. So good! Dan and I also made our GuacAMAZING<\/a>. It was also Kuang’s birthday that weekend, so I made him a cupcake cake in the spirit of the holiday!
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\nI should add, that was the most phenomenal chocolate cupcake I’ve ever made. If anyone wants the recipe, give a holler and I’ll post it!
\nWith my running friend Yukie and coworker Erica
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\nBrittany, Amanda and I with the Sky Tree during the day
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\nSky tree at night
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\nAs you can imagine, the view was incredible. You pay to be taken to the observation deck, and once there you can pay a little extra to go up an additional 100 meters.
\nSo we did just that! And look, even the elevators are cool! Exposed, lit-up elevator shafts
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\nWhat’s that in the distance? I found Disneyland, then waited til 9pm (only like 15 min) for the fireworks to start!!
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\nDan and I
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