Shopping Mall

We all slept late today due to the weekend and no one having to get up at a certain time, although sleeping late here to us now is 9:00 am, very different than the States where it was common to sleep to 11:00 am, I don't like doing that here because you feel like you have wasted the day. The weather was overcast today, and it has been sprinkling. There were no kids outside playing today so Koby and Evan just went outside only a short time.

We had breakfast and just hung out around the house today until about 1:30 pm, then we decided to go check out a shopping mall called Aeon. It took about 45 minutes to drive there, but it was a pleasant and very little traffic drive (like most drives here). We arrived and the mall was huge. It wasn't very long, but it made up for it in height, being 3 stories. The mall contained mostly clothing stores, but had a little of everything including a grocery store.

We walked around until the kids started complaining of being hungry, so we found a restaurant to rest at and get a bite to eat. I had curry while Evan, Koby and Yasuko had Om-Rice which is a thin egg omelet draped over a mound of tomato rice, with a type of sauce over the top, this is one of Koby's favorite things to eat here in Japan. The food was real good and we all finished our plates. The good thing about Japan is they give you portions that you can finish, not like America where you can eat 3 times on the same portion you get in a restaurant, could his be why there is such a huge obesity rate? To go boxes are unheard of here.

After dinner we walked around and finished looking at the rest of the mall, the highlight of the trip was the game section where there were hundreds of the games that has a claw and you try to grab prizes with them, in Japan they call them UFO catcher, and I am not sure what we called them in America (the crane game perhaps?) They also had the games that we used to see in the traveling carnivals where you put your quarter in and it falls down and lands on a platform that hopefully pushes more off to return you more.. But these games used tokens instead, and you could exchange the tokens for prizes.

We walked until our legs were aching and then decided to head back home at about 8:15 pm, we grabbed some drinks for the trip back and took off. When we arrived back home, it was a quick routine of changing into pajamas, brushing teeth and getting ready for school the next day.

Temp: High - 65
Low - 42