Little Tokyo

We went to the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo because they had a new exhibit opening today about origami. Jacob was beyond excited especially since we told him we would take him shopping.

We learned a little about the history of origami.
Jacob took some notes along the way on pieces he wanted to try and make.

I particularly enjoyed the owl in the center of this display.

Our last photo before we were told there was no photography allowed in the exhibit, oops.

We recognized one of the artists from the video Between the Folds that Jacob has been watching many times. We introduced ourselves but Jacob was a little shy beyond saying "hi".

The exhibit was impressive and well worth the visit. Jacob bought some new origami paper at the gift shop. The museum has a couple more Target Free Family Saturdays coming up so I think we will come back.

For lunch we had Japanese food of course. We ate at Mr. Ramen. I had a bento box which was great but very filling. I did not finish my lunch. Jacob had ramen noodles for the first time and loved them.

After lunch we walked around town to do some shopping. Jacob picked out some more origami paper, origami paper case and he picked out two origami books. Little Tokyo is the best place to look at origami books, they had the best selection we have ever seen. Many of the books were written by the artists we had seen on the video Between the Folds.

We enjoyed our little vacation day in downtown LA and look forward to going back soon.