Making it Up As I Go

We took Mom and Dad to the Skytree, but that wasn’t our main goal of the day. First we stopped in at a museum near the Skytree where they had part of a Messiah Valkyrie from from Macross. It was… Read more ›

While my parents were here we made it out to Fabric Town in Nippori. I’ve wanted to go since we got here, but I figured the girls wouldn’t be up for a long trip full of lots of fabric stores,… Read more ›

At the beginning of May, during Golden week (a week full of holidays), we took the train about 2 hours away to climb Mt. Mitake. The countryside is so beautiful.   My picture loader put all the pictures in backwards,… Read more ›

Back at the end of April we traveled about two hours out of Tokyo for a surprise. No one but B knew where we were going, and my goodness, was it a glorious one. We went to the tallest Buddha… Read more ›

We went to Tamagawa Park today. Z is carrying her lunch in her bag, Tiny is carrying her stuffed Pooh Bear.   There were tons of these black and red butterflies around.   Sometimes you need a sister’s help  … Read more ›

We took my parents to Odaiba to gorge ourselves on pancakes and whipped cream. We succeeded in that, and also saw some other stuff. This is my favorite building. It’s from the future.   The Rainbow Bridge, seen in such… Read more ›

Just for you. At Shinjuku Gyoen.   This woman was setting up to take pictures of her doll amongst the blossoms.   Apparently Tiny’s shirt choice was on trend.   So many people come out for hanami. (Hanami= cherry blossom… Read more ›