We decided to spend the day in Hiroshima at the peace park memorial. What a humbling experience it is to tour the area where one of the atomic bombs hit in WWII. To see the devastation and hear the stories about what happened was heartbreaking. This museum is such a stark difference than the war museum we saw in Tokyo. At one point during our walk around as I was reading about the many innocent civilians killed and the school children’s personal stories I was overcome with emotion. While there you can’t help but hope for peace in the world. Part of the museum was closed for renovation and won’t open until next week. It was still a powerful message even if we didn’t get the full experience.

After the peace park we went to lunch at a moss burger place and shopped at the outdoor shopping place for some souvenirs for our kids. Moss burger is a japanese burger place and Corey insisted we had to have one while we were here. It has a weird sauce on it and a big slice of tomato. It was a good burger just a little different. The green drink we had with it was a melon soda. Corey has been looking for melon soda in the US since he came back from Japan. You just can’t find one so of course we had to have one. We only walked about 6 miles today but our feet are tired. Our muscles are a little sore too from yoga last night. We will see what tomorrow brings.