Up to this point, we walked about 10km today. Not the best choice, but all I had to eat was a bowl of oatmeal and an apple (don’t worry the girls had several treats). The decision now was dinner and we opted to walk to Domino’s to pickup a pizza 1.5km away. Tammy and I left Kaelyn behind to shower and we bought 2 large pizzas – meat lovers and...
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We took the subway towards Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Before leaving I checked out the park on google maps and thought I had found the right subway terminal to exit from. The subway station must have had 300 stairs up so it felt like. We almost passed out. When we emerged we were right across the street from the Japan National Stadium, it was used for the 1964...
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Mom mentioned there was ‘roller slide’ parks in Japan, meaning really super long slides. A little research and I found there was one not to far from us on the other side of the huge Roppongi tower. We headed on over to let Tammy give it a try. Pretty amazing nearby with a lot of families from various countries. Tammy’s favorite was the roller...
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Before we came we heard a lot about the convenience stores here and how amazing they were. They really are amazing and I will do a video showing what the local store has shortly. Today we decided to try some of the food. First Kaelyn and Tammy tried a chicken burger which Tammy loved, Kaelyn was so so… Second was Tammy and I trying the ‘mystery...
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It’s been cool these last few days, 2C for most of the day with snow flurries today. I hear it’s way warmer at home. We’ve been inside most of the day, me working and the kids doing their school work. Tonight we walked Kaelyn to the agency for her 6:45pm and Tammy and I continued on to the park with all the nice...
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Kaelyn called in at 11am and they told her it was a day off (we found out later the main driving girl was sick). We took a quick trip downtown to see if we could find more clothes for Kaelyn. Not so much, very high end stores there. But we did stop to say HI to the robot at Softbank (a mobile carrier here).
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Today being Sunday was a slow start to the day. Pancakes and fried potatoes again. Around lunch we walked to the Apple store to pickup my laptop. Saw a neat car garage that stacked cars automatically. And some neat buildings. The good news from the Apple store was that they were able to repair it in house, vs shipping it out, reducing the cost by $250. They also...
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I did another quick check for nearby pizza places and found one not too far away. Figured we would walk to it, it’s almost at the Omote-Sando station (which is the next stop near our house but a ¥430 ride) and 1.5km away. It wasn’t that bad of a walk, in an area we haven’t walked in before. When we arrived, it was an AWESOME place with actual sit...
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Today was the day we ventured down to Tsukiji Fish Market. Although it would have been interesting to see the tuna auction, I really wasn’t up to being up at 3am to get a ticket. However, I did want to see the inner market before 11am, so we headed out around 8am (Kaelyn was not keen on waking up so early). The streets were pretty empty and the train ride just...
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Ya!!! Kaelyn had her first job today. We are so excited for her. Very different than Shanghai, CDU provides a sheet with all the work details, a sheet with detailed subway directions and a 3rd sheet that shows the google map on where to walk to the location with a picture of the front entrance. Wow, impressive. Kaelyn had to meet at the Subway entrance with another...
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