Lotus love...

Hope you had a good weekend, we had one of those ones where we tried to get a squillion jobs done and none of them were very exciting. We did start off with a bit of excitement, Ebi-kun came and woke us up early Saturday morning - nothing new there! But he had remembered that we had talked about going to the lotus farm and you need to get there early to see the flowers open. 

So, with 15 minutes we were washed, dressed and bundles into the car. Stopped at the combini to grab some breakfast then down to the farm we went. It is about a 15 minute drive away.

Although the weather was overcast and threatening to rain there were loads of people there with big fancy cameras, I looked a bit daft with my little camera and even dafter with my iPhone. It is rather photo heavy post today because I couldn't decide which pictures to show you, let's call it early Monday indecisiveness!

They are extremely beautiful and delicate, we didn't make it to the farm last year so it was good to make the effort this year.

the day that wasn't...

It was father's day here in Japan yesterday, I'm not sure if it is the same day for the rest of the world or whether it is like Mother's day which seems to be held on different days depending on where you are. Anyway, it all started out well, we had a nice breakfast of crumpets and fresh fruit and Ebi-kun gave daddy his presents - a home made book about daddy and a new coffee filter thing.

We decided that we would have a day out and go to the science museum in Odaiba which is almost 2 hours away by train. 

So, we got on the local train and a few stops along Ebi-kun says he feels sick, so we get off the train, he has gone white as a sheet so we leave the station and sit down for a while until he is feeling a bit better. He doesn't feel like getting on the train again so we walk down the road to the lotus farm, I figured the fresh air would do him good.

It was already getting on for 10am by the time we got there so there was only one flower still open, you need to be there early to see all the flowers.

We spent some time looking for turtles and other interesting bugs, it is actually a great place to go to catch zarigani (crayfish) but of course we hadn't got any equipment with us.

Ebi-kun thought it was a lot of fun to move the leaves with water in them, he was trying to get the water to jump from one leaf to the next. As we left the guy at the farm gave us info about when the farm is officially open and the best times to see the flowers, we will have to go back in a couple of weeks time and take zarigani catching equipment with us.

So, we headed back home.... what we did next will have to wait until tomorrow, too much for one post!