My GW by Eiko

My husband, two sons, and I went to Saku on April 27th. My daughter's family came there the same day. One son returned to Saitama that same day to take care of our cat. Our other son returned on the third day. We stayed in Saku until the morning of May 5th. My daughter has three children, 11, 8 and 2 years old. The way the 2 year old and his two older siblings play is different. The older children went fishing twice. the broke firewood. They milked a cow and made butter at a ranch. The little one played with me a lot. There was a balloon festival in Saku at this time. More than 30 balloons were up in the sky. One set down just 200 meters from our place. The balloon was huge seeing it so nearby. We saw another beautiful thing. It is a ring horizontal arc in the sky. It was so beautiful. It lingered (stayed) for a while. We enjoyed our Golden Week. 

Puzzler Answers

This is THE final weekend of May. May, 2019, was pretty exciting for us. Puzzler Answers: CLICK HERE.

以下はスーパースクラブルパズルです。よく見ると、4つの空白のタイルが見つかります。 空白のタイルとは、何も書かれていないタイルのことです。それら空白のタイルは、ある単語の一部です。空白のタイルに、どの文字があてはまるかを考えてください。おわかりですか？答えは、ページを下にスクロールして下さい。GOOD LUCK。

Below is a Super Scrabble Puzzle. If you search carefully you will find four blank tiles on it. BLANK means that nothing is written on it. But, they are part of the word. Try to determine what letter the BLANK tiles are. After you have your guess you can scroll down the page to find the answers. As always, GOOD LUCK.

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Puzzler Hints

I suppose I'll be going to Tokyo this day. I hope the fine weather holds up. Puzzler Hints: CLICK HERE.

May Home Project

今月のHome Projectは、「 UP」　です。

UP UP UP!

Get up, wake up , pick up, look up, mix up, get up, close up, back up, clean up, break up, blow up, dress up, hard up, call up, fix up, give up, hang up, hard up, zip up, lock up, pull up, rise up, turn up, warm up.......level up your skills and use these in conversations and in your stories this month.

今月は、これらの、up,  ～up,などの単語を使って会話をしたり、話の中に取り入れて文章を作ってみましょう！　Good luck!

Miwako (hat) at the piano

Puzzler

The wedding is is over and my brother has come and gone. It's time to get back to reality. Puzzler: CLICK HERE.

May Home Project

今月のHome Projectは、「 UP」　です。

UP UP UP!

Get up, wake up , pick up, look up, mix up, get up, close up, back up, clean up, break up, blow up, dress up, hard up, call up, fix up, give up, hang up, hard up, zip up, lock up, pull up, rise up, turn up, warm up.......level up your skills and use these in conversations and in your stories this month.

今月は、これらの、up,  ～up,などの単語を使って会話をしたり、話の中に取り入れて文章を作ってみましょう！　Good luck!

View from Shimoda Hotel

Big Band

Miwako plays the piano. She has been playing since she was a kid. And she took a pause form this hobby for 20 years or us when we got married. Ten years ago she bought a used piano and brougth it to our house. She practises a lot. She usually practises when I am not home. And sometimes I go out when she practises. She joined a big band group several years ago. She practises with them. She also takes piano lessons. Very serious! Every year the Big Band group plays in Omiya during May. It is outdoors. I have been there twice before and this time I went again May 12th. I took some pictures and recorded a cople of videos. The band played five tunes. And I must say that they were very good. You can see in hte pic that there were saxophones, trombones, trumpets a drummer and a piano player. That is Miwako. They played at the Omiya elementary school not far from Omiya station east side. The performance lasted only 20 minutes and it was very enjoyable. Congratulations Miwako, et al.

GW vacation Part 2

During our visit to Izu we stayed at three locations. First we were at a hotel in Toi. It is on the west side of Izu. Right in front of the hotel was the ocean. It is facing the east. We saw a beautiful sunrise the next morning. I watched the calm waves rolling in and out from the window. At night I went down there and walked in the surf up to my ankles. Ahhhhh. The next day we drove down south to the bottom of the peninsula. The coastline was beautiful. It was windy though. We drove across to the east side to check into our next hotel in Inatori. We had another gorgeous meal that night. The next day we went back to the west coast to visit a museum. It is the Chouhachi Irie museum. It is small and there were some very interesting relief works there. Then we headed back across the peninsula to Shimoda. But first I took a dip in the ocean at Yumigahama beach. Brrrrrr. This was our final destination. We spent one night here and we had dinner at a local Izaka. We finally headed home on May 4th. It was a wonderful vacation. The only bad news was that we never went to Irouzaki and the Aloe Center for some aloe soft cream. Maybe next time.

GW vacation Part 1

We decided to take a few days vacation during Golden Week this year. Our first plan was to visit the Himeji Castle in Hyougo prefecture. It is also known as the White Heron Castle. Then I hoped to go to the Adachi art Museum and garden in Shimane prefecture and finally the Izumo Taisha also in Shimane prefecture. However we heard so many horror stories about the amount of traffic we would encounter (meet) this GW, that we gave up on this plan. Instead we took a safe trip down to Izu. Of course there was a chance we would run into traffic jams here too. Luckily, there were none. We left home on the 1st and got back on the 4th. We stayed at three different hotels. Two included dinner and one did not. That was our last night. On that night we went to the same Izakaya that we dined at two months ago when we stayed at a business hotel near Shimoda station. And as usual the dinners at the hotels were fantastic. There was just too much food! All three nights we had delicious food and drinks. My weight definitely went up.... a little.