Adalei - a star in Japan! (July 2007)

Everywhere we went in Japan, the people took notice of Adalei. They would stop and talk to her. Often, they wanted to hold her or touch her. This woman kissed Adalei and Adalei kissed her back. The people were so friendly and just loved Adalei. It was often hard to keep going based on the number of people that would stop us to see Adalei.







The Tokyo Temple had a room for children to play while waiting for their parents to do temple work. These little girls just loved Adalei. They took her to eat snacks with their family and totally entertained her while we were there. We didn't have to be concerned about Adalei wondering off as someone was constantly holding on to her.















Adalei found this cute bear in a department store in Osaka. She was so cute. She loved the bear and wanted to take him with her. I told her I'd take some pictures so she posed for me. I think all the photo shoots she had while we were in Japan got her to posing for pictures!








Here's a cute pose of her hugging the bear.













I sure had a hard time finding a Japanese doll for Adalei to take home. Most of the dolls were collector dolls. We found this doll the last day before we left in a department store by the train station. It cost 4708 yen or approximately $47. Another doll was approximately $209 so this one seemed cheap! We only saw one little girl with a doll while we were in Japan. This doll has a kimono and looks like a Japanese girl. Adalei loves her doll and named her Iya. Nate said this is an actual Japanese word so we wonder if she picked it up at the nursery when we went to church. I'm happy she loves this doll.








This is a picture taken at the Osaka Castle. There were several groups of girls taking pictures of Adalei and you can see that Adalei loved the attention very much. When one person would stop to take a picture of her, it wasn't long before a small group would be assembled with more people taking pictures of her.








This is a picture of Adalei on the train. You can see the girls just wanting to touch her hair. There were rarely other Americans in the part of Japan that we were in. It seemed like they hadn't seen blonde curly hair before and they all thought she was so cute. They thought Adalei was the child movie star Michelle on Full House.









These girls had fun with Adalei on the train. She was entertaining everyone.














Adalei became fast friends with this cute little Japanese girl. It was raining and the little girl was sharing her umbrella with Adalei.











Look at all the people taking pictures of Adalei. I was waiting to take a picture of Nate, Misty and Adalei with the temple in the background. I had to be patient for awhile until this photo shot with Adalei the star was finished.










We had dinner in Kobe and these two waitresses just fell in love with Adalei. It was a good thing as they didn't seem to mind the mess Adalei left behind at the table.











This picture was taken in Nagoya. We were trying to find a kimono shop. Nate shopped to ask directions and the people were touching Adalei even though she was asleep. This young man was excited that she was sleeping and holding his finger in her hand. Others at this location were touching her hair and her arm while she slept. It took awhile to get directions since the people were so distracted by Adalei.






These girls in the train station were so excited by Adalei and took lots of pictures.













We were waiting to cross the street in Osaka. This gentleman was part of the construction crew. He came over and gave Adalei a few pieces of candy and talked to her for a couple of minutes.
















This photo shoot was at the Osaka Castle. It took awhile to see the sights as every where we went, Adalei was also in the spotlight.