Hiroko's Hitokoto

Annual school fair at Komazawa Park International School, and Ton's hula class had their show there. We met with Kent, who was graduating this year here. Photos here .

 Deep fried pork sandwich dinner for boy  Giant fried shrimp ONIGIRI Bento from station for dinner

 Very first, very Japanese, grilled fish lunch.  Home style sushi dinner.  Introducing TAIYAKI to Uncle Ric.  Ramen lunch. Gyoza! We went to fishing bar . We went to brunch at Captain Cook . And coffee tasting at farmer's market.

We enjoyed staying at you very much. Thank you.

Welcome to our new bathroom. He's enjoying the very first bathing.

To prepare for the new apartment, we went to IKEA for furniture shopping. Jiji&Baba plus Masa drove Ton and Mo from their house, and we met up at IKEA for lunch. We shipped all of the stuff and said good by to Jjiji, Baba, and Masa there, and took train back home. Photos here .

Started the day with coffee and breakfast at Maeda Coffee . It was a beautiful day, we went to Murinnann to check out cool garden. Then one of my kimono friends were in the neighbor, husband carrying the portable shrine ( OMIKOSHI ) for local festival. So we met with them at Nannzennji, got a blessing by KEN HOKO.  I made a reservation at Shiki Nakamura, a restaurant George introduced us which was on magazine. It was wonderful, how can it be bad meal. We enjoyed some more city walk and took Shinkansen back to Tokyo. Thank you, Kyoto! Photos here . And Ren's photos here .

As kids were at jiji'&baba's, apartment was not ready yet, we decided to take a one-night stay trip to Kyoto. Started breakfast at City Bakery at Shinagawa station before our shinkansen, which was packed off course during the golden week. We made it to Kyoto around lunch, and we headed straight to a restaurant called Hafuu . I had a chance to have their beef cutlet sandwich, and it was amazing. Since then I wanted to visit and here we were. Off course the food was great, we ate without talking at all. Then we took bus to Kawai Kanjiro Memorial Museum . The bus went by Kiyomizu temple and the other major tourists sites in Yasaka area, and packed with tourists from all over. They weren't aggressive enough and missed their stop... oops... The museum was quit busy, considering high season, though it had a slow, calm air flowing and we could have a relaxing time. The dimness of Japanese old houses are very meditating and relaxing. We kept walking the area toward Kamo r

Took Mo with me to enjoy wonderful weather after separating from Ton who went to ice skate with papa.

 Smoothie for Mo  Green tea flap for Ton Egg Benedict for myself