Kanami's birthday!

Today it was Kanami's 4th birthday.

She wanted to go to day care center and be cerebrated by her friends there.

She had a lot of fun and pleasure with her friends and her teacher.

At evening there was open center in day care center, and we went to there with my friends who are thinking if they enroll their kids in.

After that event, we had Kanami's birthday party at our home.

She got many birthday present from friends, her sister, brother and us.

Kanami want to eat Temaki-sushi, so Ritsuko made it.

And Ritsuko made special cake for Kanami!

She was really surprised and pleased.

She pull out doll from cake quickly, and hug it!

We had nice party!

Congratulation Kanami!

Day 6 Bend to Boise

Today is final day of our summer trip.

We went to "The Old Mill District" in Bend where was the big shopping mall.

We ate lunch there Flat bread pizza.

Haruki, Minami and Kanami made pizza themselves.

After lunch we had long drive from Bend to Boise.

We had just only one time rest at Ontario.

We took dinner china buffet at Fivemile and Fairview in Boise.

We had lot of fun for summer vacation trip.

Day 5 Newport to Bend

Today we went to Oregon aquarium at Newport.

It was famous for tunnel of aquarium.

Otomi loved jelly fish since she have seen "Ponyo"

There were lot of shark in tunnel aquarium and it looked like we were observed by fish.

Today's lunch we picked up Japanese restaurant along Oregon coast "Yuzen".

Tempura and Sushi was so nice, and Haruki and Minami were enjoying Ramen.

We were not common customer almost every guest were American.

After lunch we had 3 and half hour driving from Newport to Bend of central Oregon.

On the way to Bend it was beautiful scenic, there were lot of green in beautiful mountain and lake.

At dinner, we visited local brew beer restaurant, but there were so many people and we gave up there and took second candidate restaurant, it was so nice and taste great!

Tomorrow we will go back to Boise!

Day 4 Astoria to Newport in Oregon

This morning we had a good breakfast at Bed and breakfast our staying hotel.

We started to drive along Oregon coast from Astoria to Newport.

At first we played in Cannon beach it was famous for huge rock.

Before we arrived Newport, we stopped and had shopping in outlet mall at Lincoln.

Today we are staying Hallmark hotel by seaside in Newport.

We had dinner steak and seafood restaurant near the hotel.

Tomorrow, we will go to Oregon aquarium.

Day3 Seattle to Astoria

Today we went to the Museum of flight.

I and Haruki were looking forward to visiting there.

And we found the Blue Angels take off from there around lunch time.

There were lot of air plane and interesting thing, history of flight and so on.

We decided to have lunch at museum cafe at outside and we could see the departure of the Blue Angels! The jet sound was enough to be excited.

After that we started to Astoria where is located the north of Oregon coast.

It had almost 3 hours driving.

It was cloudy and pretty cold.

The hotel was cute and we saw warm hearted owner.

We had good dinner at seafood restaurant.

It was good day today too!

Day 2 in Seattle

Today we got up early at 6 o'clock.

And we went to Seattle down town and arrive at there 8 o'clock.

At first we saw Pike place market and watched flying fish at Pike place fish.

Then, we bought special cup in the first place of Starbucks.

Today's main is Seattle aquarium.

We purchased combination ticket with Argosy cruise.

There were lot of fun in there, all kids were excited and enjoying.

We had sea food in lunch and after that, we took Argosy cruise.

There was sea fair and air show by the Blue Angels on the Washington lake.

We could see that show on the boat.

It had one hour cruising and we also could take a rest on there.

Tomorrow we will go to the Museum of Flight.

I believe they'll have a good dream!