Our First Guests

What a wonderful visit! My mom and Paul flew in on the 17th and left on the 30th so we had two glorious weeks of fun and frolicking around the Kanto Plains. Pictures say a thousand words so instead of going through our trip step by step, I will highlight some of my favorites:

-Eating Shabu-Shabu in Tachikawa

-Eating Indian Food at the "Grate" Taj Mahal

-Eating Yakaniku here in Fussa

-Eating a wonderful meal at Wellingtons

(wow, there's a lot of eating that we did I guess)

-Going to the Seibu Dome and watching the season opener of a Japanese baseball game (oh and soaking our feet in a mini-onsen while watching the game)

-Staying in the cabin at Tama Hills

-Viewing the blooming cherry blossoms at Ueno Park in Tokyo

-Staying in the General's Suite at The New Sanno

-Planting flowers in our front yard

-Having my mama in my classroom with me

and

-Walking around Showa Park on a brisk and chilly afternoon

Although I was sad to see them go, I'm so happy that they came and am grateful for the many memories we've made. 

Unlike Shabu-Shabu where you boil your meat, this is Yakaniku where you grill it. 

This picture was merely taken for my sister-in-law who ONLY eats meat and literally nothing else. There's some interesting stuff on there like cow tongue and stomach.

Don't worry, I just grilled veggies. 

Mike came to my classroom on Career day and he was SO fun to watch! I've never really seen him around kids before and it was really great ; ) I seriously think he should be a teacher. 

This explains a lot.

Mom and Paul standing next to some fish organs.

You can tell who the Americans are in this picture...

What an interesting Hot Dog right?

Can you see us on the bottom of the screen? I'm wearing the red and blue striped shirt, Mike is to my left and my mom is to my right. 

There are all these crazy flags and balloons and bats that they swing, blow up or slap throughout the game. It makes watching baseball quite entertaining ; ) 

Enjoying some Shabu-Shabu. The steam is from the sukiyaki that is bubbling in front of my camera. 

Look at Ma holding those chopsticks! 

Baby Hu-Hu and Grandma chilaxin in the back of the rav 4. 

It is quite common to come into a public bathroom and find the toilet paper neatly folded for you to by the previous user. 

Huey likes to point his butt toward the camera instead of his face. It must be a dog thing.

Grandma and Huey having a talk.

This was called the "Cherry Blossom Trio" and gosh was it heaven! I ate this whole thing to myself!

This is Tokyo Tower, kind of like the Eiffel Tower...but it Tokyo and its red!

Oh what an interesting place...we almost got off at this exit!

Below are some of my favorite photos that I took and spruced up a bit. I love real photographs and plan to frame some of these for our house. 

 

Happy Spring!