Parks & Rides

Jake had Tues-Wed-Thurs off this week because of Veterans Day, but the ball was our big event for the week so we kept everything else pretty low-key and relaxing.  It was great family time and a chance to slow down from the normal pace of life and re-connect.

On our way down to Kokusai St last weekend, we passed a park on the side of the road that looked pretty cool.  When we tried to get back to it this week, we had a bit of trouble finding it, because—get this!—they gave different sections of two PARALLEL roads the SAME road number.  Eventually we did find our way though and even discovered an additional park in the process!

Park #1 (which, incidentally, was not the park we were looking for, but was the first one we found) had a pretty cool cement slide.

And an observation tower with a great view.

Park #2 (the one we were looking for) was bigger and had just about every playground amenity you can think of.  Actually, it’s one of the few Japanese parks I’ve seen with swings; they are not as popular here as slides are.

I try to teach Logan that life is an adventure and we should always make the best of things, and this whole bit with getting lost and finding a new park was a great example of that!  You never know what fun might be waiting for you around the corner!

Thursday we wanted to do something different, something we hadn’t done before; so we decided it was finally time to take a spin on the ferris wheel.

The views were (predictably) impressive.

And we discovered that Logan really doesn’t seem to be bothered by heights.  This was the only shot we managed to take of the three of us; Logan wouldn’t hold still long enough for a better one.

Inside, we let Logan run around the kiddie arcade for a bit.  He doesn’t know yet that the cars are supposed to do anything other than sit there, so it’s cheap entertainment.

A quick stop at the beach capped off the day’s activities.  Yes, the beach; yes, it's November; yes, we were all in shorts and t-shirts.  No, I don’t think we’ll see a white Christmas while we are here. 

As always, thanks for reading!  Miss you all and hope life is going well for you.  (Pssst . . . Don’t forget to wish Jake a happy birthday in a couple of days!)