family fun

Tokyo tower, my grand parents lived in Tokyo, so this is one of my nostalgia views.

今日は弟夫婦と叔父・叔母、両親と一緒に旅行に行った時の写真を。
弟夫婦に去年の９月に男の子が生まれて、主人と私にとっては初の甥っ子、ジュリにとっては初のいとこ。すっごく可愛くてたまらなかった。家族みんなと一緒に時間を過ごせて幸せでした。
I will show some photos of our trip with my brother's family, my uncle, my aunt, and my parents.
We were so happy to see our first nephew(Juliett's cousin). He was so adorable and we had a wonderful with him and my family.

Juliett and her baby cousin H 

Tokyo Skytree

roast chestnuts, Juliett loves to eat them(me too)!

yum!

dinner at Ryokan(Japanese hotel)

beautiful dishes!

at Ryokan, they have Yukata(casual kimono) for everyone who stays there.
We wear them after having Onsen(hot spring) and return them when we leave the hotel.

Juliett and Mel(my uncle&aunt's dog)

I have been missing our home in mountains, so I was glad to see mountains on the way to Nasu(Tochigi).

at a zoo

we saw a bird show, it was fun(more photos later).

Juliett had fun Purikura experience.
You can take photos and decorate it with pens and stamps, then the machine makes the photos stickers. I did this a lot when I was at high school and university with my friends.

my uncle and aunt took us to a nice restaurant where Japanese prince and princess had visited.
I had crab and tomato spaghetti, super yum!  

pizza was delicious too!

on the way home

また機会を見つけてアップしていきます。
お付き合い、どうもありがとうございました。
I will add more photos later soon, thanks!

friends and more

Mt. Fuji. I have grown up seeing this kind of view since I was little.

こんにちは。

ジュリエットと私はその後も元気に日本での生活を楽しんでいます。毎日お友達や親戚、家族と会っています。3年半ぶりに戻ったと言うのに時間を作ってくださって会ってくれる皆さんに感謝。

英語日本語両方で文章を書く時間が取れそうもないので、詳しくはカナダに戻ってから改めて書くとして、これからは写真を。
プライバシーのことなどあるので写真にぼかしを入れたりする作業をカナダの家でしてからお友達他、人物の入っている写真等を後日載せますね。

景色と食べ物とお花が多いですが、どうぞ見ていってください。

Hi, Juliett and I have been having a wonderful time in Japan. 

I don't have much time to write blog, so I just put some photos and I will write about what we did in Japan when we got to our home in Canada.(we don't have photoshop here, so I can't blurring people's faces.)
So, mostly views, flowers, and foods, but I hope you enjoy seeing my photos.

banboo. very Japanese-y?

Juliett played with my friend's children. so much fun!

it was so nice to see my old good friends.

they live by the waterfalls, I liked the water sound

Sakura(cherry blossom) cake, my another friend visited us with this special treat. yum! 

our family friends took us to Fuji Safari Park
where you can drive in the zoo and see animals so close from cars.

elephants and Mt.Fuji

sleeping lioness

we went to Shizuoka to see my friends who were used to be my co-workers.

stop sign on the road for children.

cute bear bread for Juliett

chaenomeles speciosa? I don't know English names well...

summer snowflakes in moms garden

kumquat at my mom's yard

I think these are green tea farm(not a big one)

home made sushi(Temaki-zushi) yum!

and the last is cherry blossoms!

また載せます、最後まで見てくださってどうもありがとう。
thanks! I will add more photos later.

food, food, food!

asari clam miso soup

ジュリは食べず嫌いが多くて、ちょっと見た目が何が入っているのか分かりづらかったり、見たこともないようなものだったりすると、「わたしはやめとくよ」と。
好きなものはゆで野菜やフルーツ、それにご飯とパン。和食は結構、お醤油やみりん、お味噌の味も好きで、食べます。
トマトケチャップやマヨネーズ、ドレッシング、ジャムやバター、それにジュースも苦手で、何もつけずにそのままを食べることが多い、飲み物も「水をください」という、そういう子です。

Juliett wanted to keep shells to play with.

Juliett loves very simple food, such as boiled vegetables, fruits, rice and bread, she doesn't like ketchup, mayonaise, dressings, jam, butter, she likes to eat things without adding those extra flavours. She also hesitates to try something she has never seen before or things that she can't figure out what are in them, so I was really curious how much Japanese food she can try during this trip.

shirasu baby sardine(boiled)

なので、今回の日本でのアドベンチャー、どのくらい初めての食べ物に挑戦できるかな、と思って毎日ばぁばが作ってくれるの食事の中で興味深く見ていますが、彼女、なかなか頑張ってる！大好きなばぁばの前で「わたしこれ苦手」って言うのはやっぱりいやだから、新しいものも必ず挑戦するし、頑張れそうなものは目をつぶって飲み込んでいます。
Juliett has been so good, she tries everything so far. I am quite impressed by her attitude.  Even she finds something she doesn't like, she closes her eyes so tight and swallows them.

a dried horse mackerel, yum! 

笑っちゃうのが、ばぁばの朝食を初めて見た時。「あれ？これレストランの夕食みたい、まだ朝だよ。」って。本気で。
いつもは棚から自分の好きなシリアルをとってミルクと食べて学校に行くから。。。
母は朝食、昼食、夕食、全部作ってくれています。それに洗濯毎日、おそうじも。座っている時間がなくてびっくりしました。日本についてから毎日のようにこちらのお友達と会っているけれど、みんな本当に丁寧にそして手抜きなしに家事子育てをされている様子が伝わってきて、私がカナダでいかに日々怠けているかがよくわかって反省。カナダに戻ったらもう少し頑張ろう。
My mom makes supper every day, not only supper, she makes lunches and breakfasts. When Juliett saw Baba(grandma in Japanese)'s breakfast for the first time, she said " this is like restaurant's supper!" :)
My mom has been so busy all days, she does laundry everyday(!) and does tidying and cleaning, then cooks all meals, she never sits down, I feel really bad, I hope she has more relax time(she says that she is relaxing) and becomes more lazy like me!  　

さて、今日はこの１０日間で食べたおいしいもの（完全にこれは私にとっておいしいと言う視点で、です）、そのいくつかを。
I will show some photos of food Juliett has tried and also regular food that I liked to eat when I lived in Japan.

sansai cold udon, myfavourite!

takoyaki my very favourite!

raw egg with a bit soy sauce on rice, yum!

 boiled canola

boiled small squid

pickled in sake lees

atka mackerel, this is very common to have fish grill at home kitchen.

tobiko flying fish roe, Juliett's favourite

shrimp sashimi

そうだ、近所の１００円回転ずしにもジュリが喜ぶだろうからと連れて行ってもらいました。生魚が苦手なジュリはおもしろいお寿司がいっぱいあるそういうお店のほうが楽しいと思って。
We went to Kaiten zushi(conveyor belt sushi). At the restaurant, each plate which had 2 pieces of sushi was 100 yen! Salmon, Tuna, Octopus, Shrimp, Scallop, .... anything is 100 yen!

not only sushi, you can have soups, dessert too!

案の定、寿司がお皿に乗って回ってくる様子にもう大興奮。しかも画面でオーダーできて、それが到着しそうになると「もうすぐオーダーしたものが到着します。」なんて放送まで入って、これはもう寿司電車みたいなもの。

ジュリはうちのテーブルだけでなくて、隣も向かいも後ろも前にも何が到着するのか気になって気になって。すっごい楽しい回転寿司体験でした。
Juliett was so excited seeing sushi are coming on the conveyor belt, we could order what we would like to eat on the computer screen which was by the table and the screen & music told us our order sushi was arriving soon. How fun that was! I should have known about that but I was impressed too.

ランチに寄ったファミレス、デニーズではジュリが今大好きなポケモンのフェアをやっていて、これまたジュリは大興奮。レストランでキャラクターものがもらえるなんて、カナダじゃないかな？そのお店お店の子供が楽しめる塗り絵とかクイズセットみたいなものはもらったことがあるけれど。ポケモンのルービックキューブをもらいました。（一度壊したら難しくてずっと元に戻れないでいる。。。）
At a restaurant they had special kids menu which were served with Pokemon toys. Juliett likes Pokemon, she was very excited to eat Pokemon lunch with Pokemon Rubik's cube.

one of my favourite spaghetti, with cod roe, squid, and shiso(perilla) sauce.

私はたらスパ。食べたかった、シソの乗ってるたらこのスパゲティー。カナダではシソはお店で見かけないのでとっても恋しく思ってました。

食べ物つながりでもう少し写真を。
Some more photos.

chocolate snack, Juliett's favourite

cute face, yogurt 

the back style. cute!

I have missed these rice crackers.

Juliett liked this chocolate bread.

Pikachu kamaboko, steamed fish paste