McCall

We went to McCall this weekend with our friend's family.

1st day;

We went to Mill steak house again! Prime rib was awesome!!

We had talking until at mid night after kids were going to bed.

2nd day;

We went beach of the Payette lake, it was pretty hot and we could enjoy playing there.

And there were historic car meeting near that beach.

I have seen T-model Ford which can run first time.

In dinner Ritsuko ans I made Tako-yaki and Hiroshima style Okonomi-yaki.

We had a good dinner.

3rd day;

Haruki tried to ride mountain bike in natural trail at Ponderossa state park that was his first experience, he was so excited and he wanted to try again.

After that we had small nap and went to hot spring.

That was so nice, and we had much relax time there.

4th day;

I tried to play tennis after a long interval, it was first time in U.S.A

We went to beach again and had desert time with ice cream, after that we left McCall.

That was so nice trip for us.

Thank you very much my friends and all of his family!

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!

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!

Trip to McCALL

We had a trip to McCall for 2 days.

It was 2 and half hour, not so long drive and we can enjoy nice scenic path on the way.

This week we had thunder storm and rain, but that day when I reached McCall was fine day and we could have walking around there.

My friend recommended good restaurant and ice cream shop, so we could great dinner!

The prime rib was so nice that was never meat when I ever eat.

So delicious!!!!

2nd day, we had breakfast at famous pancake house, which has also Christmas shop and looks so nice and so huge log style home!

We hope we can come again, this summer and winter!