We spent a couple weeks in Japan, visiting Okinawa, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Hakone, Tokyo and even TokyoDisney! Trip diary: Day 18 (2 Jul 2008): Tokyo […]
Mondays are for Dreaming: (The Wonderful World of) Disney
Ah Disney. Every family dreams of heading to Disney. Or not. I personally don’t dream of Disney. But my kids sure do…almost as much as […]
Mondays are for Dreaming: Hakone, Japan
When I woke this morning, I was not dreaming of Japan. But, as I sipped coffee and read the news this morning, this article from […]
Japan Trip, Day 18
A morning spent packing, organizing and washing dishes. Not too rushed, not too exciting. At the Shinjuku station, we got some pastries and coffee drinks […]
Japan Trip, Day 17
Today we took it quite slow. We hung out in the apartment late, then took the train over to the Toy park in Ginza where […]
Japan Trip, Day 16
After a long trip of being immersed in a foreign culture, we decided we needed a huge blast of American-ness. What to do? Head to […]
Japan Trip, Day 15
Rob and Chloe went down to breakfast. Camille and I worked on packing up, then I tried to catch up on photos. Checkout time was […]
Japan Trip, Day 14
We decided to take it slow and skip breakfast this morning. As we headed out, Chloe really wanted to explore the stairs that headed up […]
Japan Trip, Day 13
Breafkast was at 8 in the dining room. The room was beautiful, but there was little in the way of vegetarian choices. We had some […]
Japan Trip, Day 12
While I caught up on photos and email (last internet for a while), Rob ran over to the station to reserve seats on the train […]
Japan Trip, Day 11
After running around for two days, we decided to take it a little easier today. We headed out of the inn in a leisurely manner […]
Japan Trip, Day 10
Chloe and I were up early. Chloe coughing, me going through photos. Chloe fell back to sleep and Camille slept in. We had wanted to […]
Japan Trip, Day 9
Yet again I was up before 5:30. I hadn’t gone to the toilet the night before, but had to pee, so I had to wake […]
Japan Trip, Day 8
Again up at 5:30. Chloe had no fever! But I had a sore throat 🙁 Camille said that she had a headache. Ugh. We headed […]
Japan Trip, Day 7
Chloe woke this morning with a bit of a fever still. We actually were at breakfast later than 6:30. The place was packed already. It […]
Japan Trip, Day 6
Chloe woke this morning still feeling under the weather. (I woke first at 4:30am; Rob thought my typing was raindrops — it has not rained […]
Japan Trip, Day 5
I was up very early. The rest woke soon after. We headed down to breakfast just before 6:30. The buffet wasn’t open yet, so we […]
Japan Trip, Day 4
Chloe still woke up at 5am, even though we went to bed much later last night. We again headed down to breakfast early this morning. […]
Japan Trip, Day 3 (Quiet Time + Dinner)
We were all sun and waterlogged from the morning outside, so after lunch, the girls and I hung out inside. Well, I sat on the […]
Japan Trip, Day 3 (Swimming + Lunch)
Seeing how *many* people there were at breakfast at 7am, we decided that they all go somewhere other than the beach and pool. Maybe lots […]