Portland -Day5-

Today we went to shopping.
First of all, we visited downtown again, to Lloyd center.
There was ice skate link inside of that shopping mall.
Then we went to Uwajimaya, Japanese food market and had lunch there.
I wanted to go Woodcraft shop at Portland, and got some pen turning stuff.

On the way of craft shop, Ritsuko found big shopping mall, we decided to get there.
There were several shop and we could enjoy great shopping.
We were happy with no-tax and save money, maybe?

Portland -Day3-

This morning, we went Saturday market near the riverside.

There were lot of hand made crafts and we had a good chance to see them.

And Haruki want to get "Spoon-man’s funny hair band, Minami got decoration for ballet costume, Kanami and Otomi got caramel popcorn, I and Ritsuko had nice ornament which will be moved by wind or someone's hand.

Then, we went shopping to Woodburn outlet.

We got a lot of stuff which we want.

Haruki ask us to take them to "Marine police" which was sushi restaurant and the sushi on the dish was put on the belt and they were moving around the guest.

It was pretty good restaurant for family, good cost performance.

We'll go to Oregon Zoo or OMSI tomorrow; it will be depending on weather.

Portland -Day1-

In this morning I and Ritsuko could not get up early.

Haruki and Minami, they did and call us around 6 o'clock.

We supposed to get Japanese consular office this afternoon at Portland.

But we just arrived at here almost 6 o'clock, and we gave up.

And I found Japanese restaurant near from our hotel.

It was "Murata" Japanese restaurant.

We ate Sushi and Tempura, it was so nice!

Tomorrow we will have medical check up, so I and Ritsuko need to bear off breakfast for the test of fasting blood sugar level.

Boise

Today we came back from Portland !

We had a long drive for about 7 hours.

Kids were enjoying DVD on the car, so I could drive smoothly.

We run about 1200 mile for this trip.

We ate dinner at Texas Road House!

We felt at our ease in Boise!

4th of July

It was 4th of July!

We went to friend's home town where is small town far about 100 mile from Portland.

There were fun parade and carnival event in that town.

At that parade, Kids could pick many candies which were thrown by people who got on the parade car. Kids got so many candies that I think we don't need to go "Trick or Treat" in Halloween.

After parade we went to park to ride.

Haruki and Minami could ride many but Otomi and Kanami couldn't because there was tall restriction.

After that we went friend's original home and had barbecue with his family.

We had a lot of fun with them.

Thank you very much ourfriends!

Woodburn

Today we went "Uwajimaya" again and bought rice and udon-noodle and books.

After that we went to Japanese restaurant "Sambi", we saw that restaurant some Japanese free magazine, and it was nice restaurant.

After lunch we went to woodburn outlet mall, there were a lot of shop which attract Ritsuko.

We enjoyed shopping and I chose hotel near side the mall, because there were big bargains at night. So I took care of kids and let her go to that bargain.

She came back at mid night with lot of staff and full smile!

Oregon Zoo

Finally we could reach Oregon Zoo.

Last year when we came to Portland, we had a lot of rain and we gave up to visit Oregon zoo.

So we were looking forward to going to Oregon zoo.

It was so huge and we could see a lot of animals.

Kanami and Otomi had a lot of walk and they were enjoying.

And after that we had a train ride in the zoo, that was so nice and Otomi took a nap on my lap.

Kanami also had.

After the zoo, we went to world forestry center discovery museum where is near side of the zoo, and it was so nice museum, it was just for woodman!

Dinner we chose Kaiten-sushi, we could pick any sushi on the plate and they were on the rotary belt. Kids were so excited and had a many sushi!

At the hotel, we had small birthday party for Ritsuko!

It was her birthday today.

Congratulation Ritsuko and thank you!

Portland!

There is the Independence day in this week.

And so I could take vacation for three days prior to 4th of July.

We decided to go to Portland again since last autumn.

We leave my home at 8am and we took a rest 3 times.

Ritsuko helped me to drive and I could small nap at that time, so after that I was able to drive to Portland.

At first we went to Uwajima-ya, that was Japanese super market and it had a lot of Japanese food. Haruki and Minami were looking forward to going to Japanese book store, and they got some Japanese book.

And we ate Ramen, Japanese noodle, those were so tasty!

Portland trip 3

Today we went to children museum in the morning.

That was a nice place for little kids.

Kids were enjoying about for 2hours.

We met Derek-san who helped our moving at there.

We ate lunch together, he took Haruki and Minami to OMSI.

They were studying science through activity and small experiment.

When they were enjoying,we were also shopping at mall and having nice time.

Haruki and Minami were had a great time with Derek-san.

Next Sunday we came back to Boise, on the way we saw a beautiful fall in along the Colombia river .

There was some trouble in our car.

It had small puncture.

But we could came back to our home safety.

Portland trip2

We were planning to go to Oregon zoo.

But it was raining from morning.

So we went to Outlet mall it was called "Wood burn".

There are several shops we are interested.

My wife Ritsuko was happy to buy new pan of LeCreuset.

And we also went to Uwajimaya which is Japanese grocery store.

We got a lot of Japanese foods!