While our big February adventure was to Sapporo, we still made sure to have several small adventures throughout the month as well.
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Went to a local temple for Setsubun and enjoyed watching some traditional dancing |
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Setsubun is a February holiday before lunar spring and involves lots of throwing of beans |
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My haul from the Setsubun throwing |
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It's good luck to let the shishi bite your child's head! |
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Batting cages for a friend's wetting down - instead just of a machine, they project a pitcher throwing at you! |
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Found my new home in Yokohama's Chinatwon |
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Panda cafe! |
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It was all just too cute! |
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There is an early blossoming variety of cherry blossoms (kawazu) - we took advantage of President's Day to view them! |
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So much good food! |
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Love train around Valentine's Day! |
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I joined a friendship tour of Japanese and American people to a local art museum to see the work of local artists, especially Koya Nakamura's yuzen dyeing. I couldn't take any photos of the artwork, but it was amazing! |
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We also crafted these card wallets together! |
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And did origami! |
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Yokosuka naval base was first owned by the Japanese, who dug out many caves by hand for use during World War II. Blake and I each got to tour them on separate occasions. |
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For fish stock! Slowly building up my cooking skills of the local cuisine. |
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8 layers of ice cream! So good! From top to bottom - strawberry, soda pop/lemonade, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, sweet potato, sesame, and matcha (green tea) |
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Malcolm's BFF Virginia comes and hangs out with us sometimes, and sometimes he hangs out at her house. |
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Mochi pounding! |
Basically, every day around here is an adventure!
2 comments:
It IS a panda by all means! :)
Adventure is out there!
I must remember the bean throwing holiday this year.
Those blossoms are beautiful.
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