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• Latest and greatest

  31Jan
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  Lunch outdoors with the girls..

  

  Max was one of the grade 4 main speakers at assembly

  

  Wonderful spring

  

  

  

  

  Beautiful days outdoors

• Tis Field trip

  21Jan
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  Beautiful day in Ueno Park filled with activities!  Art in the making…

• Snowman

  18Jan
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  Max managed to gather enough snow on our rooftop for a snowman…

• Tokyo in snow

  18Jan
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  Woke up to a snowy and rainy Tokyo today. School cancelled due to chaotic traffic…

  

  

  

  

  

  It was terribly slippery and quite dangerous to walk outside, but Max loved it…Most snow gone in the afternoon..

• Tokyo winter..

  16Jan
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• More Shinjuku Gyoen

  16Jan
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  We walked around the park for 3 hours and Max already asked to go back tomorrow…

• Shinjuku Gyoen

  16Jan
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  Shinjuku Gyoen is a national garden has three styled gardens, a Japanese traditional garden, an English landscape garden and a French formal garden.

• Love that swing

  10Jan
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• Autumn, winter or spring?

  10Jan
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  We took a walk through Arisugawa koen and played with leaves and admired the flowers in the trees…early spring…

• Tokyo Skytree

  10Jan
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  Tokyo skytree,  the world’s tallest tower, is 634 meter. We took the elevator to floor 350. It took 50 seconds…

  

  

  

  

  It was a bit hazy but we could see Mt Fuji in the horizon.

  

  

  

  

  

  Snack time and one floor below to the glass floor..taking pictures of our feet…

  

  

  

  

  

• All done!

  07Jan
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• Max smaller excavation

  07Jan
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  Almost ready…some more brushing needed…

  

  Sam relaxes after a day in school…

• Tokyo National Museum

  07Jan
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  Highlights of Japanese Art. Max truly enjoyed the “attire of the military elite”.
  I preferred the “fashion in the Edo period”.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Finished off with a walk around Ueno lake, which in the summer time is filled with beautiful Lotus flowers.

• Terracotta statues exhibition

  07Jan
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  Max and I went to Tokyo National Museum to see an exhibition of the Great terracotta army from China’s first emperor.  It was pretty amazing! 

• Toshugu shrine in Ueno

  05Jan
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  Time for some play before picking up Sam from school..

  

  

  and lunch at Hard Rock cafe..

• National Museum of Nature and Science

  05Jan
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  The dinosaurs were a hit of course,  then we moved on to science and technology.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  We enjoyed the hands on displays, even if it was a bit hard to understand the directions in Japanese…

  

  

  

  Amazed to see the intestines of a cow, and a whale…

  

  

• Another park visit

  03Jan
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• Lunch

  03Jan
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  15 in the shade…we have lunch on our terrace today again!

• Yokohama trip

  02Jan
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• New Year’s day

  01Jan
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  Most places are closed on New years day but we did find one park that was open…

  Then we went home for afternoon coffee on our lovely roof terrace