Hakone! This is our only full day here, so we made the most of it. By oversleeping our 8:30 breakfast. One week in, and I guess we’ve finally acclimated! Breakfast was at our ryokan and was super traditional. Lots of pickled things and small bites, a soup, and a fish. After breakfast, Ami wanted to…
On to Hakone
I am exhausted, and my wireless keyboard died, but I know if I don’t write up each day as it happens I’ll fall behind and never catch up and totally forget what we did on each of these amazing days! So please excuse brevity, typos, incoherence. We started out today with with lots of packing….
Rainy Tokyo
(Ami wakeup time: 5:50. Woohoo!) We had a plan for this morning! We were going to head back to Yoyogi Park and the Meiji Jingu shrine and then grab a lovely lunch. We walked outside at 8:15 and… it was raining. And cold. And gray. And yuck! So instead, we went to 7-11 and bought…
Tokyo: Back to Tsukiji… and on to Memory Lane (or Piss Alley)
What a day. 5:45! I feel like this is a victory! Of course, Jody and Tori were up way earlier than that, due to jet lag. And back to Tsukiji for sushi breakfast! After eyeballing the lines for the famed Sushi Dai and Daiwa, and realizing that there was no way we were going to…
Tokyo: Mornings and Friends Arrive
4:30. I hope someday to start one of these posts without first listing the painful time the toddler awoke and demanded 1. Attention 2. Water 3. “Ami watch Daniel Tiger” 4. “Ami eat”, or 5. Tawbeddies (strawberries). Anyway. We left the house just before 7 and took a mostly empty train to Ginza, where we…
Tokyo: Strawberries, Tsukiji, and MEAT.
Good morning, evening, whatever this fugue state is! Who even knows what time is, anymore. Started the day today at 5, which is definitely better than 3 but still Needs Improvement. We figured since we were up early, we might as well head to Tsukiji Market. The trains were quiet and mostly empty this morning,…
Tokyo, Day Two!
Does it count as Day Two, even if we didn’t get to our apartment last night until 7:30? Today started early. There is apparently no explaining jet lag to a toddler. She woke up at 3 and never went back to sleep. We all laid in bed, watching Daniel Tiger and Dinosaur Train, until Logan…
Day One!
22 hours on the dot door to door. Ami was pretty uninterested in the giant bag o’ toys I brought for her amusement, but was into the screens. She didn’t fall asleep until 10 hours into our 13.5 hour flight from Dallas to Tokyo, so, uh, that was fun? (Maze in the DFW international terminal….
Have I overpacked the carry on?
Well! Well. Well well? Well?! This is big, guys. Wednesday the three of us get on a plane to go to… JAPAN. This is Logan’s and my first time visiting, and Ami’s first time out of the country. The DFW-NRT leg of our flight will be the longest single flight we’ve ever taken (13.5 hours),…
22/23 months(!) with Babaloo
Wow. A lot has happened in 2 months! Ami has started school (two days a week, 9-1, at an Mother’s Day Out program, that is). Her first few weeks went really well, but then we were gone for a couple of weeks, and ever since we got back dropoff has been a nightmare for the…
Classy Otter 