How is Japan in 2009?
I took way too long to let people know how our trip is going. I thought I would do my best in a short moment I have. It’s late, I have been working on another project and I’ll just do my best with some pics.
The best thing about Japan for me is always the fun and interesting eats. There is an abundance of it at the house. Also we have the best scenery and oddities in Japan too. So it’s no stretch to say that I love it here, even with the boring and lonely stretches as the only foreigner in the area.
To start off, these are lunch boxes (Bento). Mom has been making them for Juri and I on the days we stay at the house. She makes them at the same time she cooks everyone breakfast, meanwhile getting ready for a full day of work. She’s superhuman. We try to do the dishes to make her life easier.
These are the best snacks ever. The first is called a Chocochip MelonPan. Basically a sweet bread with a sugary top and embedded chips. Excellent texture and taste. It looks heavier than it is, but don’t get me wrong, it’s no diet food.
This next one is the best popsicle ever. It has multiple stages, much like the Saturn 5 Rocket. First the outer fruit flavor, then a small pocket of vanilla cream as you can see in the picture, then a larger pocket of the fruit outer layer, only slightly softer. Comes in greentea flavor too. So good.
I did manage to work in the fields some. I laid out bags of fertilizer for Dad to spread it on the field. I did a bad job spreading fertilizer on my first and only attempt. They fired me. But then they rehired me and I did a good job planting potatoes with Mom on the sideyard.
This is our daytrip with dad to a Plum Blossom Festival. Plum blossoms bloom shortly before the cherry blossoms. The same day we also went to a nearby temple by taking a cable car up a mountain. These pictures don’t hardly show anything we saw or did that day. Too bad.
Here is me and the cat “Emma-chan” eating dinner. The cat comes up to the chair next to me because of the fish. Otherwise, both cats in the house avoid and hate me. As you can see, Emma-chan is hoping for a role as Simba in the Japanese version of Lion King.
Here is Mom and Dad at Dinner. Piles of vegatables are on plates along with some meat and squid that will be cooked in the electric fry pan tonight. The sweet potatoe slices are my favorite. Notice the sushi rolls too. Always something extra as a nice starter with a cold beer. Great people. Meals are all different, I never know what to expect. But pretty much Dad and I will drink a beer before dinner with appetizers. Also a side note. Grandma cannot remember which chair she sits in at the table, so she asks us every day.
Bedtime. Tomorrow it’s Tokyo Disney Sea.
3 Responses to “How is Japan in 2009?”
March 18, 2009 at 12:39 pm | general | 3 comments
dear mike, thanks for the email it looks like you are having a good time the food looks very appetizing, very neatly presented. I can’t believe your staying so long. Did you hear anything about some robot woman that walks in th city. take a picture of it if you heard or seen or even know what Im talking about. I am at work so I have to cut this short.. be careful love, jude
love the pics.. great time.. food is one of my favorites and I will try anything.. tom would starve to death and come back a bean.. great way to show everyone what you get to experience.. not many of us will..
WOW Mike………the pics are amazing and the food looks wonderful as wel. I only hope some day I get to take a trip to a place like that!!!! I have been to France, Switzerland, and Great Britian………..they were ok, more Darryls type, but I would love Asia………I am sure!!!!!!