Sun Temple

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The day that we went to the temples near Nara was pretty cold.  It wasn’t particularly windy, but I was wearing like five layers, all long sleeved, and I was STILL cold.

 

I was losing patience with the freezing and walking by the last temple.  The sun had finally started to come out though – and this was around 4pm – and I decided I needed to take advantage of it.  So whenever the tour guide stopped, I found a place where the sun was shining brightly, planted myself at the front of it, turned around, faced the sun, and turned my face up.  I felt like a plant of some sort.  But it was really nice, and warmed me up for just a second.  People thought it was funny, but some people – even adults – realized what I was doing and copied me.  One even stood right next to me.  It was really nice, though, and I wondered how awesome it must have been for people to lay around there hundreds of years ago during the spring and fall when it was nice and warm.