Lunch at Shinagawa

I was supposed to enter Chelsea College of Art & Design to study interior design in London almost 10 year ago.  That was given up to work for a IT company. Those days, I was looking for either possible way study or job at the same time, I was thinking if I gained a work permission, I would take the chance.
The college arranged pre-English course for foreign students. Most of students in the course were teenagers so I made friends with some people in their 20s.  We used to have lunch to chat and share our worries with, and have home parties at each flat and house.  It was definitely precious time for me to spend with such people but I just have gotten in touch with them only by new year card once a year ever since I came back to Japan.
A few weeks ago, I could contact to one of the friend by Facebook!! We used a message function of facebook to tell how we have been doing and to make a plan for a lunch out.
The friends who hasn't seen for 10 years came along at Shinagawa.  I was wondering I could recognize them but they have not changed at all.  Only the differences were 2 little girls there with their mothers who is me and one of my friends.
While children were playing, we talked and talked each other about our recent life.  One of them who is attractive and has full of energy has succeeded as a interior designer and spent busy life happily.
I was influenced by her and on my way home I was thinking how I should make the rest of my life.  I will be 40 years 1 month later....

Hakone - Yumoto Fujiya Hotel

 

We spent a great time at Hakone last week that my parents gave it as a present for Kana who will go to school from April .

We took JR Tokaido line From Yokohama to Odawara and then changed it to Hakone Tozan Tetsudo line in Odawara.  An hour and a half travel to Hakone Yumoto is not too bad to have a fun in a train, actually my daughter was enjoying it with her grandfather.  I had made a reservation for lunch buffet at Yumoto Fujiya Hotel located just in front of Hakone Yumoto station as we supposed to arrive around lunch time.  It costs 2500 yen per each, but our group of 4 people were discounted to 2200 yen with a coupon of GOURNAVI (English, Japanese).  It was absolutely delicious from appetizers to desserts and better than I had expected.  My stomach was full utterly and then definitely my dinner of that night was skipped.

Pillowcase

Kana had not used a pillow until a few month ago.  While she is sleeping in her bed,  she keeps rolling over from the side to the other side and from top to bottom.  She is always not the same place in her bed and doesn't seem like to put her head on a pillow.  Every early morning she gets into my bed and falls asleep again deeply with touching my soft and cozy velvet pillow that is her favorite.  Ever since she was a baby, she loves soft and smooth cloth like velvet.  I thought if I put her pillow made of velvet on her bed, she could fall asleep in her own bed nicely and could keep staying at the same place.
I bought a velvet plain pillow case and made a some stitch and ironed on the flowers which I got them at 100 yen shop called Daiso.
Kana will have a lovely dream with her soft toy dog on her pillow tonight too......

New Light

A new light in our living room was installed in my house.  It is designed by EGLO in Austria which won the best design award.  4 halogen lights with wattage of 40 were included but in this age of energy saving we must use LED lights instead.  We bought them which are 6 watt LED and throw off the same as exsisting light of 60 watt astonishingly.
Then even as all lights in our house are still usable Ken has been changed to LED lights very eagerly.

School bag

Ken's company gave Kana a school bag last week which is a traditional school bag called "Randoseru" and carried on the back.  She is looking forward to going to school from April and feels like to carry the bag on her back again and again at home.  When I was younger, the colours of the bags were only red and black.  Nowadays, there are wide range of colours like brown, blue and strawberry pink she has.  They are very sturdy so his company will correct them for reuse in developing countries 6 years later.

Full up

We had holiday lunch at a stake restaurant called "Ken<URL:http://www.steak-ken.com(Japanese)>" that the same name as my husband, and really were full up to the throat.
If you order any main dish such as a beef stake, a chicken stake and a hamburg stake, you can eat salad, soup, fruits and beef curry as much as you want.  Also a coupon on the internet provide you free ice cream in many flavors.  This restaurant gives you really good quality and cost performance. Ice cream is royal warrant in Belgium that is really delicious, and beef in the curry and the soup is stewed well and perfectly tender.  We are satisfied with these food and the cost only about 1000 yen!!  Kids under 7 are all free of charge except for a main dish.  Kana can't finish a main dish completely so I can share my plate anyway.

Snowing

 

It's snowing!!  All houses are covered with snow slightly and Kana is excited to have play with snow.  Unfortunately that's not much enough to construct snow mans for Kana.

We are relived that there is no snow on paving and we don't need to clear up it.  It's ready to go out by my car today, but we still need full attention. 

Girls' day festival

March 3rd is Girls' festival day called "Hina Matsuri" that wishes are expressed for the future happiness of girls.
Kana's Dolls that they were my own dolls originally have been displayed.  There are enough time to have fun until March 3rd.  The "Hina" dolls must be put away as soon as you celebrate the day, otherwise you can not get married!!  Her dolls are many on a shelf with 4 row that actually Ken struggled to made with cardboard as the original case was glass and bulky to keep for a year.
Nowadays, only a prince and a  princess are displayed. They only need tiny space to put in a small house, sadly it's in tune with the times.

Hawaii - Kahala Mall

After bathing in the sea at Waikiki beach, we had shopping time at Kahala Mall not Ala Moana Center where we often popped in last time. 
There are many nice shops such as Whole Foods Market in the mall.  I just wondered that why vegetables  are piled up on a shelf at Whole Foods Market.  Looks good and a cool shot, but lower vegetables must be pushed and go off.

Hawaii

I stayed in Hawaii for holiday with my family last week.

At this time of year, it's rainy period.  It was fortune that we had only shower once and a lot of sunshine there.  It was not too hot to be outside. There was nice breeze and I felt a little bit cold without a long sleeve shirt blouse at morning and night.

Tanen

I ate "Tanen" that was bought at China town in Yokohama for dessert after dinner.
I've never know it until I found it in a shop there. It's like Japanese "Shiratama" with sesame inside.
It's really good taste!!

This is it!

I was wondering for years what blog is!!
So I just decided to start blog as a part of my exercise for English.