Oh for the love of...

This is the view we woke up to on Monday morning. Luckily we had our visit to Kyoto scheduled for the next three days, so we managed to flee the upcoming snowstorm. Good thing, because we were dumped with another 40 cm. Check Lewis' site for what we missed out on.
It reached Holy Crap levels of coldness the day we left.
Seriously cold.
When we arrived in Kyoto it was snowing a little, but impossibly sunny at the same time. Very charming. We hopped on the city bus for a day of culture-o-rama.

It was from this bus, within an hour of arriving, that we saw our first cultural exhibit: Man With No Pants.

And by no pants I mean no anything. Being the lucky passenger in the window seat, I was first to notice Mr. Pants-less, driving the car directly beside us. I know that I probably gave him the reaction he was looking for when I exploded with horrified laughter, but HE WAS WEARING NO PANTS. "Surely he is just late to work, and has decided to change his pants... and, accompanying undergarments...because he...spilled his coffee..." I thought to myself in shock. Until I glanced again, as at a car accident, and noticed that he was... performing an inappropriate action, let's say. I lost it at this point. Thank god his lane was soon forced to turn, and he could no longer slowly follow alongside the bus as he had been doing.

Overall a good introduction to historical Kyoto and the shy, reserved, and above all, polite people of Japan.