On the Friday that was, October 30th, Noah's school had an ensoku/field trip, this one was without us parents. This wasn't just his class, it was for the entire school. Every Fall, the kids of this yochien,take the same trip, to the same destination too, lol. Branden took this same trip every year way back when, he was in yochien. And when B was a blue badge, I thought and reflected upon, "wow this will be his last unaccompanied trip with our yochien." And here I am a couple years later, meeting up at 8:30am same meeting spot, lol. Except now I'm with my youngest and last kiddo. Meanwhile, Noah that morning, was so excited it was his very first field trip unaccompanied by us parents. Yes he had 2 before (the picnic lunch in May and the grape and sweet potato harvest) but those were with us parents and stuff, so this was his very first one unaccompanied. Two of the sensei's were in this pic, and they were taking attendance.
All the older classes were hand holders of the younger classes. Blue badges and pink badges helped the red and yellow badges.
That Thomas thermos used to belong to Branden. : ) Sure I gather I coulda bought him a new thermos. But I think it is smarter to reuse if we can. One of my good friends, told me, her (red badge) daughter was using her 3rd grade daughters backpack she used to use. And I then pointed to Noah's school bus backpack and unzipped the zipper and showed her the name written on the inside "Branden last name" And she smiled and I smiled. No need to show boast or need the newest thing. Just being practical. And that was the way with a lot of the kids at the field trip. A lot of the kids I know their older siblings since when B used to go there, I recalled such and suches backpack and saw their younger sibling using the same one. Smart I thought. And I knew they knew that was B's old backpack too. I did however put a new name sticker on the thermos though. But ehhh, Branden is still written in marker at the bottom of said thermos. And it's okay. : ) No need to put on airs. : )
After the kids went to their field trip that Friday. The hubster and I went and had breakfast at Coco's. However our Coco's is still on that (not very good) breakfast buffet thing. And no longer serving regular breakfast? So, we left and went to Johnathon's instead. See their Halloween decorations near the drink bar? : )
Noboru had the breakfast sandwich and I had the hot cakes, both our meals came with the drink bar. They didn't have hot cocoa like Coco's does but it was okay. : ) Sometimes we just gotta go with the flow and roll with the punches.
My pancakes and hot coffee. Cute coffee cups right. I really thought they had cute coffee cups they had all sorts of designs.
Friday, I ran to the grocery store got a weeks worth of food. And then I ran to the Daiso/100 yen store. I picked up some very unexciting stuff, lol just extra laundry clips, some shoe hangers, some chisai towels for the kids. For which I had to lug the sewing machine out a few days later and sew name labels on the kids small towels. Branden needed a new nylon towel for the shower. And just a few odds and ends. It's amazing how a person can go into the Daiso and then buy another thing then another. I try to limit myself to spending 1000 yen in there at a time or less, but this time I think it was 1200 yen. Curses on that amazing store! :P
So, I finally got around to buying real shoe hangers, well wonders never cease. However I must say, these were a real beast to slip onto each shoe, and once while trying to get the shoe on the shoe hanger the plastic piece slipped off and I had to redo it and it just seemed to be more of a pain this way with using the proper shoe hangers, how did that happen? : ) I sorta think my make shift "extra hanger and clips works way way better" and is more useful. Grumble grumble. I'll give it 3 more weeks with this, either I'll get the hang of these or I won't..... we'll see. : )
This is a story ummm not about washing, but more of a story about a bird and some poop. Bare with me here.... to tell the whole story real quick, this happened the day of Halloween, Oct 31st. So, my towels were outside drying along the fence, as always nothing new there. However and this is the good part. So, Saturday it was a very windy day. Good weather for towel drying. Everything was extra clipped nothing was gonna knock those babies down! So, anyway after my son looked outside Branden said, "mommy there's a bird on your towel" I said could you guys go outside and shoo him away. They said sure and so both my sons went and shooed the bird away. The kids came back inside and so the bird flew right back to my towel. He didn't land on any other towel mind you. Wasn't interested in any other towel, he only wanted to sit on my blue and white striped towel. So he sat once again. Now the other towels were completely bird free and I can tell you, in the 3 or 4 years we've lived here, this was the first time a bird ever landed on anything of ours that we washed. Anyway, a few hours pass. And I go outside and get all the towels. All are fresh and dry. And then there was my towel. It had bird poop on it not once it had bird poop on it *3* different places!!!! What kind of freak bird was this? I had briefly mentioned the bird that morning to Noboru. By afternoon when I come in with the towels and I have all clean towels on my right shoulder hanging and my striped towel folded in my hand and the look on my face. He said "what is it" I said, "remember that bird from this morning. He crapped all over my towel, also why only my towel?" Not quite sure what it was, but my husband burst into hysterical laughter in the kitchen. He thought that was just the funniest thing he had ever heard. Clearly I wasn't amused by it (at the time), so I went upstairs, put my towel in the washer, spray and washed the ahem poop areas and ran it into the washer all by itself, because I didn't have anything else to wash and I didn't want the stain to set in. By now it was too late to dry outside, but also I was semi afraid that bird would come back for my towel again, that dirty rotten scoundrel. So, I threw my towel into the dryer. Gee, I did need my towel for my bath that night you know (and yes we each have 2 towels each but that one is my favorite). : ) Luckily for me, it was dried hours before bath time. But yeah....wasn't that just weird? Ha ha ha. Now days later, of course. I can see the humor in it, but Saturday, I was definitely not feeling the love for that bird. I haven't seen him this week so far and I've hung towels out quite a few times since.
In other news. Good news. Branden tested last Wednesday and passed and he is now a level 5. And Noah tested Saturday (the day of the bird incident) and he also passed and is now a Sakura/cherry blossom. They were both so excited to pass. This week both, Branden and Noah will be in a new swim lane and doing different training.
Sunday, I baked some homemade Nestle Toll house cookies with the boys.
The cookies we made. : ) I've had about 4 cookies total so far but my hubby and the kids have been enjoying them all week long like crazy. Which makes me happy.
One of our simple but yummy meals we had lately. Ginger pork, some rice and some steam veggie. And some jasmine tea.What else...what else.
The weather in the part/area of Chiba, Japan we live has really grown so freezing cold this past week and a half. We have now turned the heat on for the season in the house. And turned on our floor heating, so the house will remain toasty warm all Winter now. Also in my home state, I saw on the news about the major snow Colorado had 2 weeks ago. Boy did they get slammed with some major snow. No snow for us here, but man has it grown bitterly cold though. Definitely no longer shorts weather anymore. : ) When the kids go play outside now, they go wearing sweatshirts, gloves. It's definitely been chilly willy lately.
This is our floor heating, we keep it on 35c-40c all winter long. That's 95 degrees F to 104 degrees F for you Americans. That is honestly really toasty warm for a floor, the whole downstairs flooring is that toasty warm, kitchen floor, living room, bathroom floor, genkan floor, everywhere downstairs. There's really no need to wear slippers or even socks in our house (not rubbing it in) just explaining how winter is like in our home is all. And the upstairs is carpeted and central as well obviously, so we just don't feel any cold at all. A couple years ago, I took a picture of Noah when he was about a year old or so actually snoozing on the floor one time and blogged it. The reason he was laying on the floor was because the floor is so hot and feels so good. Between the floor heating and the central heating, the huge amounts of insulation and the solidly built house we had built, the bitter cold in Japan never seems to bother us/affect us. And for that we are grateful. Our old house rental in Japan on the other hand, it was the typical one room was kept warm the rest of the house was freezing cold. Even the bathrooms were freezing cold. Every morning the kitchen floor felt like a sheet of ice, I think the experience of living in our old house rental gives us great appreciation for living in our home now, does that make sense/dykwim? Meaning we know how cold Japan gets, we know how tough it was living the other way, so in a way, we stay appreciative and the experience of our other house, keeps us humble, as it should, I think. We don't take it for granted I guess would be an easier way to put it. Anyway thought this might be interesting for some of you reading this in the US.
Wednesday of this week I went to lunch with 3 yochien friends, so including me, it was 4 of us. We had lunch at Coco's. I had the spaghetti set. We chatted about typical mom type stuff, I guess....flu vaccinations, the swine flu, Costco, some American holidays that are coming up. Very very nice and friendly ladies. Oh, we also have a school bazaar coming up in November and many of us will sell baked goods. When B went there I baked cupcakes. This is my first time for doing this for Noah and I will be baking cupcakes again for that. The picture above is of the teeny tiny order from Costco/Flying pig that came for us, this week. Just 2 items no biggie. We go through cheese like you wouldn't believe, that huge 1kg bag we bought a while back is sadly long gone. This block of cheese was a good price, and we need it for cheese and crackers, grilled cheese, in omelets, geeze we eat cheese with so much. And the tortillas are always nice for sandwich making, they make yummy wraps.Though the boys closets and clothes sorting was done eons ago, I did get around to doing my closet a week or two ago. All my winter stuff is now all out, my Summer stuff is now all packed away except for a few outfits I always keep in a drawer for trips to Guam and such. I didn't do much winter buying for myself this season. Hubby bought me, a really gorgeous pair of Bobson jeans. And I ordered online 2 Gap argyle sweaters at Gap.com. They make some really cute ladies argyle sweaters every single year. I bought 2 of them last week, the gray and green and the 2nd one is the navy blue with pink argyle print. I wear a medium at Gap normally which is why I order from Gap and Old Navy more then any other store, because I know my sizing at those 2 stores like the back of my hand and I know how they fit on me, however Gap online has reviews from customers now and the reviews for this particular sweater is said to run freakishly big??? This worried me a lot and ordering from overseas in the first place is a huge pain in the butt to begin with. However the " running freakishly big in size comments" freaked me out and I'll admit worried me. So, I ordered a small and a medium, in each. Anyway pardon my grumble grumble, whatever size ends up fitting is the 2 I'll keep and I obviously plan to ship the ones that don't fit straight back to Gap. I've done this once before a few years ago. Anyway I'll be happy when they get here. They should be here any day now.
Exercise: I haven't spoken of exercise on my blog in forever....seriously the longest longest time. I think I just fizzled out with it sometime this Summer. Now what does that mean exactly. Does that mean I've been totally unmoving. Absolutely untrue. In truth, I ride my bike with Noah about twice a week. Running after my kids in general keeps me on my toes, anyways. And I do use my treadmill about once a week. I know...once a week is not great, but hey just being honest! So, while I am healthy, I still have that desire to be fitter (don't we all?), to know I can do more. Yet being as busy as always. It's gone on the back burner. Well until now. I am going to make a bigger effort to do my exercise DVD for right now, I'm shooting for at least 1-2 times a week and to do treadmill more and hopefully try to fit in riding my bike more too and maybe an actual few walks in my neighborhood too. We will see. At least though, I am trying to stay fit, so that is a plus and that is a positive. I figure if I can do something exercise wise 5 days a week, then that would be cool. Maybe a bike ride one day, a nice country walk the next, a workout dvd the next day and you get what I mean. So, anyway still at it. Still giving it that old college try. : ) : )
What else: I placed a really good size order from Amazon.com for the boys. Stuff for Christmas, some books, some DVD's, and some educational workbooks as well. I plan to hide them away in the attic and when I get some Christmas wrapping paper, I'll wrap them up. I get so excited around the holidays. : ) And I am happy that I started with my Christmas shopping.
TV Talk:
These are 2 of the DVD's we rented for November, we will pick 2 more as soon as we get around to seeing Star Trek. The Strangers on the other hand, we watched Saturday after the kids went to sleep. I do like scary movies, so does the hubster. This isn't really scary in the sense of ghosts or anything like that. It is supposedly based on a true story, about a home invasion, a very disturbing home invasion. I won't go into great detail (but don't read ahead if you are worried of any spoilers) someone knocks at the door at 4am, and it's a girl asking " is Tamara there?" They answered the door. And said "no Tamara lives here, you must have the wrong house." My husband and I kept yelling at the TV "don't answer the door, don't answer the door!!!!" I am not really a screaming type girl during horror movies or in any other type situations. I can handle it for mostly any movie. But this movie had me screaming quite a few times. Haven't seen a good scary movie like this in a long time. It will have you at the edge of your seat. Screaming a few times. And if you're expecting a nice little cute ending with warm and fuzzies and rainbows at the end. Skip this one. The end is horrific. But since it's a scary movie to begin with, it does it's job. 2 thumbs up for this scary movie for sure. Star Trek, we haven't seen it yet, and I would definitely not consider myself a trekkie at all. I know who Spock and Kirk are for sure, but I think I might have seen a few of the old episodes but never really got into them at all. I did however like Star Trek the Next Generation with Data and Jean Luc, lol. And have never seen the other series from this really maybe one or two episodes at the most. But, I did want to see this movie. Hopefully we can see this one, sometime this week.
Hell's Kitchen just started for us in Japan and it's on the Fox Life Channel. I caught the first episode last night, it was so good. I have seen newer seasons online but it's nice to be able to see this on satellite now. What else have we been up to? Well, Branden has a teeny tiny field trip but technically not a real field trip, it's another one of those "exploring what's in our town" type field trips. He has that on Tuesday, so tomorrow.Besides B's upcoming mini country field trip tomorrow. November 10th. And the yochien bazaar November 20th which I will be baking for that. I am also getting ready for Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving and look forward to that every year. : ) Anyway these are a few of the goings ons that's been happening in our neck of the woods. : )
Swine flu: It seems the swine flu is all over the place these days. So, I should update what's happening swine flu wise where we live. Oddly enough, our town is basically not affected. The elementary Branden goes to is fine. Now, there was rumor that one of the kids at our local junior high possibly had it? And that is why the town undokai last month was canceled because our town worried if the elementary kids are near the junior high kids, yada yada.... could a wide spread epidemic happen? I think they worried greatly about it, which I can understand why of course and canceled it. So that is why B's town undokai was canceled and plus the typhoon that happened the Thursday before the town undokai which didn't really do much but the huge amounts of rain really did a number on the field. But yeah even now our town is still pretty much swine flu free. Ughhhh and I hate saying that, because it's almost like tempting fate and now the whole town will get it now that I said that. : ) : ) But yes our town seems unaffected by the swine flu. Knocks on wood. Now for the small country type city Noah goes to yochien in. Swine flu seems to be semi wide spread in the local elementary for that city. The whole 3rd grade classes were canceled for more then half of the month of October!!! Which lots of those 3rd graders are the mom's I am friends with and their younger siblings go to yochien with Noah. So while the swine flu is happening in the city nearest us. Noah's yochien has not had 1 single case of the swine flu yet (knocks on wood). Again, it doesn't mean they won't get it. I am just saying for right now. Our town has not had any major outbreaks. And no one has had it at our yochien. Again though I do worry. Just like all of us mother's/parents do. Sigh. I do have my kids on the swine flu vaccination waitlist though. They are 2nd priority, first priorty is for kids with asthma, pregnant ladies, etc etc.
Anyway, I have a house to clean and an exercise dvd to do. Have a wonderful week! : )
To all of you that celebrate it! I hope for you all to have a wonderful Halloween. This picture was taken this evening however my flash was on and so it looks actually earlier in the day then it was. It was pitch black outside. : ) You can see our carved Jack o' lantern all nicely cut, trying to bring some Halloween cheer to our neighborhood! : )
A couple days ago, the boy's and I carved the pumpkin together. Usually Noboru joins in the fun with the carving but his schedule this week was so, that we cut it without the hubby. However he saw it and thought we did a pretty okay job! : ) In this pic, Noah was pointing to the carving he wished for us to do. I said...."I don't think I have the skill to do that one" : ) A little too elaborate for my carving skills, now Noboru could have done that one no problem. : )
Yup, he wants to cut....that one? Ha ha ha.
Time to scoop out some pumpkin guts! Go kids go, get the seeds out.
Boy did these need a good and thorough washing. :P
Fresh out of the oven, all nicely roasted and salted and placed into this little dish and we munched these Wednesday night.
While munching our pumpkin seeds, the kids and I watched Hocus Pocus. A Halloween movie on the Disney channel. We have been watching kids Halloween movies all week. The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc etc.
Aha, a bit blurry but this pic is really how dark it was tonight when we took the picture. Anyway, I hope everyone has a spook-tacular Halloween!
Kids have had their shower and bath and the popcorn has just been popped, a few Halloween treats to be munched and we will be popping in "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" for the kids, as soon as I publish this. Same as every year! : ) Happy Halloween everyone! : )
Birthday's at our house are always small quiet little family events. Branden's birthday was October 26th, both the kids went to school. And right after they each came home from school, we went right away to the doctors to get their last dose of the flu shot. About 17 people in the waiting room, mostly elderly folks. But we had an appointment and got in and out fairly quick. We went to Capricciosa for Branden's birthday. It's an Italian restaurant here in Japan, but really really delicious. It was dead inside the restaurant, maybe 1 or 2 other sets of customers sitting someplace not even close to where we were sitting. Here is Noboru gesturing with his hands, "you know Branden you used to be THIS small" LOL. He does that to each of the boys for every single birthday.
Our salad and also our bruschetta...
They brought out the free cheesecake and ice cream platter. He could have chosen, chocolate cake, pumpkin tart or cheesecake. We had cake at home and will be having pumpkin pie shortly anyway so he wisely went with the cheesecake. The kids enjoyed the ice cream and cheesecake. We meanwhile sipped some coffee and waited. Then headed home. The weather for Branden's birthday, it rained cats and dogs all day and evening. My friend at the yochien earlier that day, told me this was a typhoon. We went home and had our quiet little celebration there.
This is the cake I baked for Branden this year. And just a very small amount of presents. A very simple birthday. : )
We lit the candles and turned out all the lights, sang, and wished him a very happy birthday. He blew out the candles and made a wish!
We had cake and ice cream. Just the 4 of us in the kitchen.
Unwrapping a few gifts. : )
Opening the gift from grandpa. : )
Aww. : )
And that was it. A very nice, but a very quiet family birthday. Happy 8th birthday baby, we sure do love you! : )
Sunday morning the weather was nice, but rain was expected the next day on Monday. So, Sunday morning I just ran to the laundry mat and washed all my bedding for our bed. And I also went up into the attic and pulled out all the fleece warmer type thick blankets out and took them and just washed them all. It wasn't so hard and just threw them all into 1 of the big washers there. Everything fit with room to spare. Went into my car and waited.
The dryer is quite fast and it took no time, these 2 dryers were the ones with my stuff inside. Went home made my bed and then put 1 thick fleece blanket each into Branden's bed, Noah's bed and one into our bed. We enjoyed Sunday just lazing around at home. Well except my laundry mat run I did in the morning. By afternoon, we decided at 3pm we'd go fishing. So we did.
We went along the ocean, right on a wharf and fished. We fished for mackerel but were waiting for sun to set to catch sea bass. The weather was cold, the boys were wearing long johns underneath but it was still pretty cold. Brrr.
There were other people fishing near by and it was nice to chat and ask what they were catching. The people on the left of us, must have been there all day, because they had a big cooler with all that they caught inside.
Everyone enjoyed themselves. And what did we catch? Would you believe we didn't catch a single thing!!! Ha ha ha. Oh well, we did have fun though. : ) Our part of Chiba, the days are still somewhat Indian Summer type days but the nights are starting to cool off, which is why I decided to pull out the thicker blankets. We went home and had leftover nabe. Anyway, that was our Sunday. : )
We woke up at 5am. Yikes can you believe that? I had packed a bag of extra clothes for the kids, just spares which they didn't need, but kept them in the car anyway. Figure better to be safe then sorry. Packed a separate bag for which I kept in the stroller all day long, with their sweatshirts, coats, hats and gloves, the stroller we took and stroller rain cover we kept in the car since the forecast said no chance of rain, which was right, no rain at all. But still better to be safe then sorry, I guess, so glad it was in the car at least. Tickets we had. The kids and I had Mc D's along the way, hubby had some Japanese noodles at a rest area that his friend rec'd and he loved them. We arrived at Disneyland around 8am. We had a very close parking and waited/stood in line at the gates. Once the time came around and it opened, we went in. Here's a picture of the boy's, and behind them is the Disneyland marching band, that were wearing their Halloween colors. It was pretty nice. Didn't stop to listen too long, Noboru already ran off to grab fast pass tickets for the "Pooh Hunny Hunt" yup, not honey, lol. Meanwhile the kids and I made our way to the Haunted Mansion as fast as humanly possible with me pushing the empty stroller (meaning no kid). We got there pretty fast, there was zero wait time. Kids and I went in once since Noboru was not there yet and the ride only takes a few minutes. Then when we exited, we saw Noboru and we rode again still no wait in line. And he did grab the fast pass for the Pooh ride already.
The boys looking around. Enjoying the ride.
By now our fast pass time was ready for the Splash Mountain ride. We quickly got on this one. Noah's tall enough to ride so we all can ride.
Splash Mountain is nice because you go down a few times down the mountain one is sorta steep. And between the few falls, there is a lot to see. It basically tells the story of Brer Rabbit.
We had 2 buckets of caramel popcorn, 1 bucket of honey popcorn, we brought 3 buckets with us. And when 1 was finished we refilled it with soy sauce/butter popcorn.
Around noon we had lunch. We had lunch at the the "Pan Galactic Pizza Port" located in Tomorrowland.
Everyone had a slice and we ordered 2 large sodas and everyone shared the drinks. I also brought into the park, 2 single size jasmine teas because drinks can get quiet expensive in there. And I'm glad I brought some.
I would rec'd if you go to the Pan Galactic Pizza port, you sit upstairs because there is a small animatronic type show. An alien pizza shop is making pizza for delivery in outerspace. Think a type of show sorta like Chuck E Cheese's, but on a way way smaller scale. To get the best view of the show you have to go upstairs, it's very hard to see downstairs. All the kids who were eating loved the show. But totally do go upstairs to get the best view.
See the 3 silver hands pulling and stretching the pizza dough to the left of this picture?
Wall-E and Eve, being part of Disney Pixar where also there. Wonder if they'll ever get around to making a ride. That would be cool.
Noah enjoying the trains. B was sitting on the other side of the hubby. They each got the window side, so I couldn't really take a good pic of B since he was sitting way over there. : (
After the train, everyone wanted some fresh fruit. They sell fresh fruit near the train ride. I mentioned it briefly before we got on the train. When we got off, everyone had wanted some. So, we all got 1 pineapple each. 189 yen each, somewhat high but acceptable still.
Man was it sweet. We 4 all munched, threw the wrappers into the trash and then rode another ride.
Noah has never driven before, well except for his little electric car at home. Now that he's tall enough, he can ride this now. Last time we just watched Noboru and B. This time he was ready. He did really really well.
Branden's been riding on this for many years with Noboru, so he does very well. This is them as they got off their car and were walking out where I stopped to take their picture. : ) By now is when I started feeling a bit chilly. So, I had to dig out every one's sweatshirts from the bag under the stroller.
Ahhh much much better, now that they're in warmer tops. Noboru meanwhile ran himself to the Haunted Mansion real quick to get another fast pass, we meanwhile stayed near the Buzz Lightyear since the fast pass for that was about time and we waited until he ran back. We loved the Buzz ride. Branden reached level 2, I reached level 3 with the shooting. And Noboru beat my score and reached level 4. Drats! Noah meanwhile scored 800 points only so, he had fun but didn't reach any levels or anything. : )
We went to the buffet for dinner. The price is higher here then at the Indian buffet at Disney Sea. But we were hungry and unlimted food and drinks sounded about right at the time. A total miss match of food items on my plate. Karaage, Japanese curry (they had Indian curry, but I opted for the Japanese that night) German potatoes with some yummy onion and cheese type dish, a naan, a butter roll. This serving is all mixed up!!! Ha ha ha. Good grief. : ) Oh and the karaage is all white meat, just in case anyone is wondering. : )
I did redeem myself by having a salad. : )
And a second serving. This time I had a Mickey plate. Figured what the heck...live dangerously! LOL. See the left ear? I kept seeing this pumpkin gratin. Didn't get any at first, but thinking.... That sounds delicious. Everytime I went up and got some more food for Noah or myself. Since B gets his own. I would see it. I'd think...I love pumpkin. Love pumpkin pies, cheesecake, or pumpkin bread, anything along those lines. And Japanese pumpkin love that too. In stews, or tempura or what have you. And I do love gratin too. So anyway kept thinking, "gee that sounds great." So before I left, I put a little spoon in the Mickey ear and sat down. Then I tried it. I am sorry to say but yuck. : ( I think it sounded better then it actually was? : ( It just didn't go together. At least not to my tastebuds. I even tried 3 bites. Not wanting to give up, wanting to like it. And then finally throwing in the towel and said, "I guess I just don't like it" ah well, at least I did try.
After eating dinner. We took a few Halloween type pics now that it was dark outside. This picture didn't come out right, because the pumpkin was so illuminated behind B that I could barely make out his face. I even tried switching their seating positions, having them sit more towards the left, didn't work.... so then tried more to the right. And the fact it was actually 2 benches, they couldn't all squeeze in just 1 bench. I tried everything to get a better picture of them with this background yet it still came out.....just not so good. *Plus* I had a small line forming behind me and not wanting to be a hog about the spot and move on and let someone else take a turn taking a pic, I left it as is. After 8 pics, this was the best I could get. : ( Anyway...you get the idea. : )
This picture came out much better. Phew! : )
Noboru and our first born on his shoulders. So B could see. I'm glad he did that. : )
Noah meanwhile was zonked out to the world. He was fast asleep in the stroller. It's sorta funny but, no matter where we are, even TDL, Noah can never stay awake past 8:30pm. It's like he has a tiny clock inside him that just makes him fall asleep. One night last week, during the weekday, it was 8:05pm and Noah asked sweetly, "can I go to sleep now?" I said...of course, sure you're bed time's at 8:30pm but you can go to sleep sooner, I walked him upstairs and went to check on him around 8:19pm and he was fast asleep too. B on the other hand always liked staying awake. Could probably stay awake forever if we let him.
Zonked out to the world! And that's his wrist band saying he is indeed tall enough. : )
We stayed until it closed. Our car was one of the first in and our car was one of the last to leave! Man we were at Disneyland literally all day long. : ) That's our white MPV in the background.
The kids 1 thing each, we got them from Tokyo Disneyland. Simple, 450 yen each dinner mats. It has all the character's on them. Celia AKA "schmoopsie-poo" and Mike AKA
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