"Take our picture!"

 

Attending kindergarten sports day

 

點水樓ポップアップ Dian Shui Lou pop-up shop

お餅のシロップ煮棗包みが甘くて、いかにも台湾スイーツな感じ。

Outing with my son

 Happy National Sons Day!

Starbucks Wadakuramon

今日の花 Today’s flowers

・ヒマワリ(レモンオーラ)
・バラ(アバランチェ)
・アストランチア (マヨール)
・フウセントウワタ
・オキシペタリウム (マーブルホワイト)
・宿根スターチス (チャームブルー)
・メラレウカ(レボリューションゴールド)

Sunflower, rose, astrantia major, swan plant, tweedia, sea-lavender, and melaleuca/tea tree.

Full moon, harvest moon

 

羽二重団子

 久しぶりに日暮里繊維街へ。お土産はもちろん羽二重団子。

Canelé & Pistachio financier from ease

Lemon meringue & pear and basil ice creams at teal, Kabuto-cho

 Wonderful pairing of texture and flavor. Paid a visit to Kabuto shrine, which is the origin of Kabuto-cho. Surreal looking up metropolitan highway close above.

Lunch at Bistro yen in Kayaba-cho

 Salad, corn soup, Chestnut & apple bread, and the main dish was duck confit with roasted potatoes, and edamame hums, beautifully laid out on a blue plate. New favorite place.

Riku getting flu IV

5 days of lock down for him. His fever was gone the following day thanks to the 3 hours of IV, which was his very first one. The class was closed due to majority of students' sick leave 2 days before he was going to go back to school, and the closure was extended another 2 days... Odd season to have flu going around...  

Brunch at bricolage bread

 Avocado toast & ice decaf latte at bricolage bread. The weather was getting cooled down finally.

Shine muscat & mozzarella

 シャインマスカットとモッツァレラ。悪くないけど、やっぱり桃とのコンビニは負けるかなあ。

栗氷(くりごおり)@虎屋菓寮

 和三盆糖蜜が丁度いい。底には栗餡。栗をここまで準備するのは大変。大切にいただきます。

お隣では銭湯の展示。

Masaki built a snowmobile and dogs

Dogs following a bone on the back of snowmobile

今日の花 Today's flowers

トルコキキョウ（アンバーダブルショコラ）、デコラマム（ゼンブラライム）、クルクマ（トパーズ）、エリンジューム（シリウス）、ワックスフラワー（ムーンライトデライト）、ユーカリ（ポポラス）

Texas bluebell, chrysanthemum, curcuma/Siam tulip, eryngium, waxflower, and eucalyptus.

ISS sighting

 

Brunch at bricolage bread, Roppongi

 Caesar salad combo, with a dessert of rhubarb tart, along with ice decaf latte. We haven't come here for a while because it’s a very popular place now. It calmed down around around 10:30 am and I could spent a bit of quiet time.

ほうじ茶かき氷＠林家茶園、目黒

 なかなかのボリューム。お供に温かい黒豆茶。

Lunch of the day at Cabe, an Indonesian restaurant in Meguro

 

International Library of Children's Literature, National Diet Library 国立国会図書館 国際子ども図書館

The original building is 100 years old, a renovation made 21 years ago based on the design by Tadao Ando. Staircase is the original, the bay window will let you go out and touch a medallion relief on the wall. 3F used to be the reading room and I couldn't stop imagining what it was like back in the day, reading books from the library there, under those classy chandeliers. Nice and cozy children's library on 1F where we spent almost 3 hours, the main children's book library is in the back of the new building. They have a small cafe which was perfectly fine with little ones to have a quick lunch. Fun day!

Door to the staircase

Staircase light

Staircase the original

Lunch

Medallion relief

Looking up window on the bay window

Looking to outside bay window

Lights on the ceiling of a hall on the top floor

The hall used to be a reading room