Happy October, everyone! Halloween is right around the corner so I teamed up with my blogger babes, Elaine, Ashley, Grasie, Sheryl, Sydne & Taye to share a super fun halloween costume inspiration that you can do solo or with your group of friends! Talk about #SQUADGOALS, amiright?! It was super easy and so much fun – you can image the HILLarity that ensued while taking these photos! Check out their blog posts, too, to see their favorite photos from the shoot!
Our last photo set from Tokyo – I wore this look for our afternoon tea at The Peninsula Hotel from my last post if you didn’t catch it yet! We shot these on our walk to the Ginza train station. Despite being a little overcast (it rained the following day) the weather was nice and warm during our entire trip! Such a great time to visit this beautiful city!
We had the opportunity to enjoy The Peninsula Hotel during our trip to Tokyo and experience their incredible Afternoon Tea as well as an indulgent dinner at Peter. This gorgeous luxury hotel is located in the Marunouchi business district, opposite the Imperial Palace and Hibiya Park. It’s also just a short walk to Ginza, where you’ll find your Chanel & Hermes shopping heaven. Of course, that aspect alone was pulling at my heart strings! 😉
PETER
Perched on the 24th floor of The Peninsula Tokyo, Peter offers an absolutely stunning view of Tokyo’s sparkly city lights! It’s definitely a must see. The view is equally as breathtaking during the day if you happen to be there for lunch. We enjoyed an impeccable Japanese A5 Wagyu dinner with the perfect wine pairings. The restaurant is the ideal setting for an elegant date night or business meeting, leaving you feeling like you’re on top of the world!
*photo courtesy of The Peninsula Tokyo
*photo courtesy of The Peninsula Tokyo
Peninsula in Pink
An annual event since 2010, all of The Peninsula Hotels across Asia, Europe & America will show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month with special events and pink-themed amenities, donating proceeds to local breast cancer charities. At The Peninsula Tokyo, staff members will be adorned with specially commissioned pink ribbon pins while the hotel florals will be decked out in pink as well. The highlight this year is their collaboration with Chen Man, China’s most celebrated avant-garde photographer and multimedia artist! The Peninsula Tokyo will become a shining pink beacon with all sides of their 100-meter exterior illuminated in pink. If you’ll be in Tokyo next month, make sure to stop by and check it out! It’s definitely making me consider a last minute trip just to see this beauty! I know it’s going to be such a beautiful site to see!
Special thanks to The Peninsula Tokyo for spoiling us!
Chris and I always try to take the time to reflect on our favorite parts of trips and have found that one of the highlights of traveling for us is getting to immerse ourselves in the culture. Our unexpected must-do is always visiting the produce markets to see what locals buy, how they shop and picking up fun snacks without a clue what they are! We’re not really ones for historic places – not that we don’t like them (we actually spend a lot of our Netflix/Amazon time watching historic documentaries!) – there’s just something about the thousands of other tourists around us at those “must see” spots that we personally find too distracting for us to enjoy when traveling. Of course, many people do enjoy seeing those places and there are great landmarks to visit (I hear Mount Fuji is incredible!) but it really depends on what kind of traveler you are – everyone’s different! Over the years, we’ve realized that we truly love learning more about the pop culture – what the locals do, where they eat, shop and find entertainment! Don’t get me wrong, these places also get tons of tourists (after all, we are tourists, too) but it’s different from being mixed in with the locals and being completely surrounded by fellow tourists with not a single local in sight, you know? 😉 but I digress… we loved doing the Shibuya Scramble, running across the notorious Shibuya Crossing cross walk that endures half a million pedestrians a day… or wandering the streets of Shinjuku, drinking vending machine beers or munching on yakitori from little huts down dark alleys (Memory Lane/Piss Alley) and falling head over heels for the cutest hidden neighborhoods like Kagurazaka and Daikan-yama!
