Besides that whole bit of organizing and arranging, I stopped at the Yoyogi-hachiman shrine that was on the way to the embassy. (See above.) It was really small, but people really go to it since I saw about 5 people there. On the way back to Heiwadai, I also stopped at Meiji Jingu, which I'd been overlooking on all my trips to Harajuku.
Meiji Jingu has one of the biggest (if not the biggest) wooden gate in Japan. There were also a bunch of sake barrels stacked up like a wall next to the path leading to the shrine. I'm not exactly sure what it was there for, but it looked cool. XD I took a picture of the sign..maybe one of these days I can figure out the purpose of it. One of my favorite things at Meiji Jingu is the tree where everyone places the votives they've written their wishes on. There are sooo many of them in so many different languages. (I saw Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, French, German, I think it was Arabic...and a bunch that I couldn't really identify.) It's kind of cool to see so many wishes and hopes all in one place.
I didn't write one myself. Maybe I'll go back one day and do one. I was going to, but I didn't know what I wanted to write. There were some families taking their 7, 5, and 3 year olds to temple for the Japanese 七五三 (7,5,3) thing. It was really cute to see them all dressed up and trying not to step on the middle of the gate when they walked in. (You're suppposed to step over it, not on it.) That's all for now!