Shopping street

 This is near our hotel and I think it was my fourth trip. It is a nice easy walk from hotel.

I spent some time at Panda Park

These two back onto a subway/metro station.

Seating around this area.

Sign on a side area No walking while smoking.

Vending machine for soft drinks water and bottled coffee.

Street are very clean, this was at 8.45am and the store had just taken the rubbish out ready to be collected. Very organised and neat.

Meals

 

Our first night dinner was Burger King and I sat next to a woman on a bench along the wall while Warren waited for our meal to be prepped. Then the "woman" started to snore she/he was sitting over a tray and yeo had gone to sleep, was snoring and a bloke, he did have long dark hair.

Saturday the boys went to parkrun and the girls tried out the buffet breakfast at the hotel. 1500yen $18.50? gives scrambled egg,ham. Little sausages, cereals, fruit juices, bread for toast,tea and coffee.

The above pic was lunch today, miso soup and an apple juice 640yen $8 for both of us. I had not eaten miso soup until last night.

Dinner at a very traditional Japan restaurant, salad first then king prawns and pork cutlets with blue something rice. This was rice with finely chopped herb like mint looking, never tasted that taste before. Quite mild and good.

Yesterday lunch was called a ladies set

My meal was pork cutlets cutlets with large steamed road beans to go on top.

Three meals today for both of us was 5600 yen in our money $64

Japanese, Indian and Italian cuisine I didn't take a photo of dinner but we ordered at the table into a iPad didn't see where to pay so I went to the cashier and gave the table number and he was able to see what we had ordered so knew what to charge me, then dinner was served to us by a remote robot. Way to go.

Ueon park

 Warren and I went walking yesterday around this park, it is pronounced as Wayknow.

Very big lovely park, many people enjoying it and we saw several school groups.

Full size blue whale outside the natural and science museum

Water spouts at the park, they danced along but I didn't hear any music, they shut down a few seconds after I took the photo.

Just a street shot at an outside cafe, we stopped for an ice cream, still had plenty of time to wait. The building above the white van is one of the stations from airport called skyline. Stairs on the very left lead to the park but we found a lift to go up as it the equivalent of three flights of stairs.

Lunch today

The ladies set. Bread, lamb curry, coconut curry and fruit in a sweet yoghurt and small rice.

Boys had lamb curry and naan bread and a mango drink,cost 2700 yen or $31.

Japan!

 Yep, we have arrived. Long trip,next time we travel overseas,going to stagger it and arrive later.

Trying to come to terms with money

Need to devide it by 8.5. We bought lunch today, an iced coffee and a pizza sub and it was 15600 yen, that sounds a lot but when it comes down to it, it was $19 give or that, so not bad.

We flew in at 8am, great to have an early start right, not so right. Got Sim cards and caught the Skyrail to closest station then changed to urban line giving us about 500metres to walk, it did seem a looonnngggg half a K but probably because we had luggage.

We could leave our stuff there but couldn't get into the room until 3pm.

Went for lunch, breakfast on the plane was quite filling but it was at 5am.

Walked around a park checking out the museum did 5kms before we got back to hotel.

Kimono cardigan

 Our crochet group were doing another project this term. I bought the wool required and then realised that I would only have one week there before leaving for a months holiday so decided to do my own thing.

I am on a couple of face book pages about crochet and someone had posted this cardigan with links to the pattern. 

It looked easy and I used two of the colours that I had bought for the term  project.

Basically it's a sleeveless wrap that does have side seams. I did it to the pattern but I think it needs for of a sleeve, currently there are two rows of shell stitch. It's finished but the more I look at it, the more I realise it needs proper sleeves so a job to do when home again.

Decluttering the house

 Nice idea but I haven't done much in this area this year.

However I did declutter my donations that I have been working on, I delivered them today, took me three trips from the car.

Didn't count up but pretty sure my self made challenge for the year had been met. That was 12 blankets/quilts and 24 toys.

The blanket on top was one that I must have started before we went on holidays, finished that. Think my favourite make is the C2C.

Apache tears

 We learnt the stitch at crocheting just before we left for Victoria. I liked it but decided to make a couple of changes to it to make it a quicker make.

I used double crochet instead of single and put three rows of plain between the dropped loops.

I used wool from my stash and wasn't entirely happy with my choices once I had started.

I thought the brown in the middle would work and that I would have enough but that was not the case, I happen to throw in the blue and that worked so much better.

Anyway it's just for me to use during the colder months so doesn't matter that much with the colourway. It measures 130 by about 90, I stopped when I started to run out of the main colours, took just a month to dó, much was done while travelling in the car.