Long Ride

Up at 8:30 am this morning, Evan had already eaten breakfast and was outside playing with Ueo-sans kids before they went to daycare, Evan is ready to go practice riding his bike some more but I have a lot of things that I need to do around the house still.

Yasuko should be home early today and not have to go back to the school, she is scheduled to help some of the other ladies in town clean the community center in preparation for the sports festival this weekend, so far the weather is fore casted to be sunny and warm, we have our fingers crossed. The weather was sunny and warm today, I hung up the clothes to dry outside and tended to the garden, Yasuko came home at 11:00 am and her and Evan went to the community center to clean.

It was such a beautiful day and since Yasuko did not have to go back to the school today, I decided to take a bike ride and explore my surroundings a bit. I started off heading towards the Chubetsu river to get on the bike trails that run along the river, I rode and rode until I found myself in Asahikawa City, about 10 miles away from the town that we live in, it was an easy ride except for the last 1/4 on the way back. Yasuko was worried about me and I did not realize that I had been gone for 3 and a half hours.

After I got back, we went and ordered Koby's birthday cake, we are going to have a small party for him and invite the neighborhood kids, this is not something that the Japanese do, but it will be fun for everyone. We are planning on introducing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey to all of the kids, it should make for an interesting day.

Later that evening we had a dinner of tempura vegetables and shrimp with cold noodles and sauce. Yummy!

Temp: High - 75
Low - 50