Akafuku 赤福

Pose for camera

Beef cutlet sandwich for very late lunch

Sky Tree from Asakusa

Lunch with George at Hashidume before his flight back home

Latte at Sawamura

Introducing Sawamura from Karuizawa to George.

A short playdate with Yousef

Picked up Yousef from school this afternoon.

Practice dressing in kimon with Masa

Ton playing with boy and girl dolls

BD gift free chocolate drink from GODIVA

It was a bit too much for me...

Latte from No.8 Bear Pond before taiko practice

Kids at Yousef's birthday party at Lego Land, and I headed to taiko practice, after getting this latte in Shibuya.

Brunch at Bubby's before papa leaves for Seattle

Nishimachi Food Fair 2014

Photos here.

So, here it is again, the food fair. Ren started working on the kimono booth dressing up men's kimono from 8:15 a.m., I played taiko with Ton at 10:00 a.m. after a rehearsal from 9:30 a.m., Ton did hula from 1:20 p.m. after a rehearsal from 12:30 p.m., and I help dressing kimono to women in between. Food I helped cooking last night for Kuwaiti booth were gone in 3 hours. We finished cleaning up the kimono booth around 5:30 p.m.! Over all, we did great job, it was a lot work yet massive fun!

Ton's hula video here.

My dinner! Tabbouleh&machboos laham

After a long day of Food Fair at Nishimachi, finally I could eat the dish I was cooking for hours yesterday. Yum!

Finished cooking for tomorrow's food fair!

 Tabbouleh & hummus in fridge

 How many pots of rice did we cook?

 Onions, chickepeas, and raisins side dish

Machboos Laham (rice and lamb shanks)

Beautiful sunset

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.

One day early brithday cupcakes

Dinner with Will & Rie Yamamoto at Antici Sapori

Photos here.

Hear they were coming to Japan so made up for dinner at Antici Sapori in Hiroo. They got married a few months ago, and were in Tokyo to take care of her apartment, after visiting her family in Shizuoka. It's been more than 10 years since we'd met last. Wonderful seeing you both!

Lunar eclipse

It started18:14, then the clouds covered it up around the time of the full eclipse... We couldn't watch it till the end thought it was cool!

A quick break between school and classes

Cafe latte for me and French toast for the girl.

Today's lunch

十勝和牛ロースステーキ弁当 Wagyu steak lunch box

After the typhoon has gone...

Bouldering at SPIDER. Crowded with kids, off course!

Grinding coffee beans on typhoon day

As typhoon approaching to Tokyo, public schools were closed, kids at home, let's grind coffee beans and wait for it to be a sunny day.

Break at Streamer Coffee

Breakfast at City Bakery with George

Volunteer at Nishimachi International School OKTOBER FEST

Went to help Nishimachi to help them with entertainments. First I joined playing taiko, then Ren gave demonstration of Iai. Those are the videos he taped:

Echo of Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLO6b-a-yDA&feature=youtu.be

Dajin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2So_HED9V1o&feature=youtu.be

Winter Passion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiHsD-OGi8&feature=youtu.be

Mo close up

Domino on the wall

Video here.

Italian lunch at Isetan Shinjuku

 Italian flag color flowers arrangement.

 Risotto Milanese with salsiccia.

 Green honeycomb tripe.

Parmigiano Reggiano, Ricota e Fichi, and Pistacchio gelato from Acquolina.

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

Photos here.

Since kids' schools were closed, we went to Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in the afternoon. It was raining unfortunately, but it didn't stop us. Plus, the admission was free because of Tokyo Day, open to public. Checked out the special exhibits from Ghibli movies. Kids were very excited, they spotted pictures and dioramas from their favorite movies. We checked out the old houses in the outside, Mo pretended driving trolley which used to run in Tokyo between Shibuya and Kanda, played some of the old games, etc. We enjoyed those houses and stayed until they closed at 16:30.