Ninja Villiage

One of the top things the kids wanted to do again was the Ninja Village.  

We channeled our inner ninja's and had a blast.

We prefer to go on an American holiday because both times we did that it was pretty dead in the village.

The show was amazing.  It was a cute but at times intense play done by the ninjas.  Beatrix and Calista were scared at times from the fight scenes.  They play was asking for audience involvement and kept asking us questions in Japanese.  There was only one family there besides us and we didn't really know what was being said.  The girls ninja must have felt more comfortable with english though because sometimes when there was a question for the audience she would repeat it in english.  

At the end of the play the kids got to run up on stage and look for three hidden ninja stars.  It was funny because Calista and Beatrix went straight behind a tapestry, which was also a secret passage way they saw in the play, and didn't come out.  I'm sure there were directions in Japanese to not go into any door or backstage because the other child didn't try anything like that.  After the stars were found by Penelope, Leon, and the other boy, we just kept standing there waiting for Calista and Beatrix to pop out somewhere.  It was an awkward minute because I think the actors wanted us to leave and didn't realize that we were missing two little people.  And we honestly didn't know where they were but we also felt like it would have been rude for us to go backstage looking for them.  So I started shouting their names and they eventually came back out wondering where the ninja stars were because they didn't find any.  

We spend hours there just taking our time and really checking everything out.

We even found a short TV show they were playing that was made inside the village.  It reminded me of the ninja version of Power Rangers.  We watched it while we ate our sandwiches we brought from home.

Beatrix found a spot to spy on people on the floor below.

Scarlett is wearing my hat.  It wasn't part of the costume but my actual gardening hat I got from the garden store.  It is very very light, you can barely feel it on your head.

One thing the kids really liked was the maze house.  You had to find your way out but it was full of secret passage ways.  No one wanted anyone else to show them the way so we spent a long time going through one at a time.  Calista and Beatrix went together but after about five minutes they came back out the front door saying they couldn't figure it out.  I ended up going through with them.  It was so cute watching them trying to find which wall was really a door and such.

I'm glad we went to the water area last.  Calista and Beatrix left the place soaking wet.