Autumn Activities, Part 1
Autumn in Japan is one of the nicest season, it started off with the temperature slowly decreasing to below 30 and hovering between 23 and 25 degrees. In some days the summer's humidity still lingers and could be felt in the warm air, which means you can still put a t-shirt on without needing a cardigan or light sweater.
Since I've started a series of activities based on the season, I'll continue to do so here, with early autumn.
The playgroup club that I am a member of organised a graduation-cum-picnic party for member's kids who won't be attending anymore due to school. Once the kids go to kindergarden, they won't be able to attend the club anymore since the playgroup is held Tuesday weekly. When they graduate, new members sign up. The club has been going on for 10 years, originally set up for families in Tokyo who speak English at home, and especially to those whose hometown is not Japan. The party was also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. It was a load of fun, face-painting, games and a huge chocolate cake for everyone. Yeap, I had a slice!
Then we had a birthday celebration of a friend whose daughter used to go to the same club. The homemade Hello Kitty cheesecake was very pretty, fit for a sweet 4 year old girl.
The next was Roy's birthday! I made a small and simple vanilla sponge cake covered in chocolate ganache. Wilkie helped me along the way and was so looking forward to presenting it to his dad as a surprise. Roy had no idea about the cake, so he was ver touched and of course surprised. Wilkie wanted to blow the candles for him more than anything. He did it 5 times. Roy enjoyed the cake very much.
We then set off to Shinjuku Park for the kids to run around in a big space, and to play some bubbles. We all got rather hungry afterwards since it was getting late for lunch, so we headed off to Takashimaya 10 mins walk from the park. We felt like eating Unagi (eel) this time since we've never had it before in a restaurant. We love unagi and we know Fredi would eat it no sweat, and Wilkie, the fussy eater would eat rice, without the unagi. Unagi set is usually served on a bed of rice with an accompanying soup. It was an enjoyable lunch, but the problem was that it has too much MSG in the soup. Japanese use MSG liberally in their cooking. That is why I am willing to spend all that time grocery shopping and cooking at home, although we like eating out from time to time.
Roy's students had been wanting to do a barbeque since summer but it didn't materialised, so we opted to do lunch at Sizzler in Shinjuku. Wilkie as usual attracted the ladies and they were more than happy to sit and chat with him.
At other times, we had our usual play in the park in the neighbourhood.
Since I've started a series of activities based on the season, I'll continue to do so here, with early autumn.
The playgroup club that I am a member of organised a graduation-cum-picnic party for member's kids who won't be attending anymore due to school. Once the kids go to kindergarden, they won't be able to attend the club anymore since the playgroup is held Tuesday weekly. When they graduate, new members sign up. The club has been going on for 10 years, originally set up for families in Tokyo who speak English at home, and especially to those whose hometown is not Japan. The party was also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. It was a load of fun, face-painting, games and a huge chocolate cake for everyone. Yeap, I had a slice!
Then we had a birthday celebration of a friend whose daughter used to go to the same club. The homemade Hello Kitty cheesecake was very pretty, fit for a sweet 4 year old girl.
The next was Roy's birthday! I made a small and simple vanilla sponge cake covered in chocolate ganache. Wilkie helped me along the way and was so looking forward to presenting it to his dad as a surprise. Roy had no idea about the cake, so he was ver touched and of course surprised. Wilkie wanted to blow the candles for him more than anything. He did it 5 times. Roy enjoyed the cake very much.
We then set off to Shinjuku Park for the kids to run around in a big space, and to play some bubbles. We all got rather hungry afterwards since it was getting late for lunch, so we headed off to Takashimaya 10 mins walk from the park. We felt like eating Unagi (eel) this time since we've never had it before in a restaurant. We love unagi and we know Fredi would eat it no sweat, and Wilkie, the fussy eater would eat rice, without the unagi. Unagi set is usually served on a bed of rice with an accompanying soup. It was an enjoyable lunch, but the problem was that it has too much MSG in the soup. Japanese use MSG liberally in their cooking. That is why I am willing to spend all that time grocery shopping and cooking at home, although we like eating out from time to time.
Roy's students had been wanting to do a barbeque since summer but it didn't materialised, so we opted to do lunch at Sizzler in Shinjuku. Wilkie as usual attracted the ladies and they were more than happy to sit and chat with him.
At other times, we had our usual play in the park in the neighbourhood.
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