Trains

This is definitely J's favorite part of Japan!

Takao-san

B and J had a great time hiking to the top of Takao-san. Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Mt. Fuji faintly visible in the background.

There once was a fight between a computer and a cell phone.

Which one wins you might be wondering...

In our case it was the cell phone.  Unfortunately.  Here's to hoping that Hubby can fix the LCD screen after the part(hopefully) arrives from the States.  And here's to keeping cute, adorable, very fast throwing babies away from the laptop.  That's it baby no allowance for you.  Ever.

Nursery Art

Check out this picture, it's pure nursery art!

Guess who made it.

Sledding in Tokyo

We don't have any snow. I am in fact hoping for my first winter ever without snow since I have a bicycle as my only form of transportation. Here's to sledding Tokyo style! Isn't this a fun park?

Jindaiji

For the first winter in three years I am enjoying the sun. Instead of mostly cloudy days with the occasionally sunny day, we have had mostly sunny days this winter thus far in Tokyo. Today we enjoyed the sunny although cold (50 degree) weather at the Buddist and Shinto temples in Jidaiji. Here are some of the pictures that Joshua captured while we were there, except the first picture which he obviously didn't take. But the rest are his.

And a Happy New Year!

It's been interesting to discover exactly how our family spends the holidays when we are separated from our family and close friends by a large ocean. We miss them! However we have had some great times this vacation.
To celebrate New Years Day we visited the top of the Tokyo Municipal Office Building. It's a great view of Tokyo from the 84th floor and it's especially good on New Years Day since none of the factories are open on New Years so there is not as much smog. The view was actually better than the pictures they have telling you what everything is!
After the building view we took the kids for some Karaoke!
Then we grabbed some Krispy Kreme, which in Shinjuku means at least a 30 minute wait.
Happy New Year! We miss you family!