Life's a Beach

Took and almost original family trip down to Enoshima in kamaruka.



the air was really nice and clean. it made me glad to be out of the city for a change:


dad gets directions from a local grocer:


yum! a really nice curry shop with a hawaiian theme:



go kelp!



and did a little shrining back in kamakura:





a recent storm blew this apparently-hundreds-of-years-old tree down:


view from the bottom:


and from the top:


a tiring but fun day!

3-D TV fever!



i like technology but i think this is kinda LAME.

Murakami Madness!

We took a family trip out to Murakami in Niigata to see grandpa on his old stomping grounds. checked into the New Heartopia hotel (a rather lame place but its the only place with handicap facilities in the area):


grandpa tests the bed:



the food was pretty good:




dad liked the waitresses:


there was some kind of park or nature preserve across the street:


we visited grandpa's cousins:




murakami is famous for their salmon so we stopped by a famous old salmon shop:


and got the tour:




it was pretty impressive:




we decided to enjoy local foods at this nice little restaurant that the salmon shop people recommended to us:







wonderful food, beautifully presented:




i think grandpa enjoyed himself but he was a bit pooped:

Golden Week Madness

i hate golden week. it's absolute insanity anywhere you go. mom and i thought we would be safe outside the city proper so we went to kameido where there's a very nice shrine with tons of wisteria blossoms. but as you can see, a whole bunch of other people had the same idea:



mom is exhausted from clamoring her way up the bridge:



AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!




the blooms were very pretty:





having a San Luis Rey moment: