Went to visit grandkids, son and daughter-in-law in Tokyo. I was there from the middle of January to the middle of February, with my twin, Emily, arriving for the last three weeks. What a great trip. Chikage, now three, talks up a storm in English and Japanese. Riku, nine months, started crawling and holding and eating crackers during the stay. Besides showing Emily, my Tokyo, visiting Fabric Town, the Bead and Doll areas we went to Sugamo, Yokohama and Sapporo. Our birthday present from my son and his family was the trip to Sapporo's Winter Festival. Needless to say we had a wonderful time. I miss the family, food and Tokyo!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Thanksgiving 2009
Pat and Bill hosted Thanksgiving this year. Luckily traffic was light and the trip was easy. Emy and Dolph drove with me. A fun time was had. Bill was operated on one week before Thanksgiving (his back) and he looks great. He's up and about and well onto the road of full recovery and no pain. Food was outstanding and conversation great. A fantastic day shared with family.
C and L
Lee and Charity stopped by to pick up car seat and other assorted items that Hiroko and Ren left for them. These masks were part of the goodies. Great seeing them.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Grandchildren!
What a great week! Son, daughter-in-law and grand children were here this past week. Chikage was sick at the beginning of the week, but soon got better. She dressed up as Kiki for Halloween (thanks to Baba making her costume, including satchel), Riku was skeleton during the day and Batman when they went trick and treating.
Chikage ate too much candy, threw up during the night and managed to get on the plane this morning.
It was a fun time, but not long enough. The children were good, we did a lot of shopping and I miss all of them.Friday, July 10, 2009
chris and keiran visit
It was nice to have son, Chris and grandson Keiran here for a short visit. We (they) cleaned out the attic, donated lots of stuff, threw away more and had a great time. Food was fantastic, thanks to Chris' cooking. Too bad it was for only a few days.
Class Samples
I've been busy making class samples. I teach at the City Quilter, New York, NY. This one is using big prints. They are all Japanese, but any big print works great. The other photos in Flikr is a bag that I will be teaching. It's fun to make the samples. Keeps me busy!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
London
After one week in Beverley, we took the train down to London. Our hotel was the Millenium Gloucester in Knightsbridge. It was around the corner from the tube. We purchased a one week Oyster Pass for the tube and busses. Most days we started our sightseeing from this tube station. We visited the Tower of London (including the exchanging of the keys when the tower is locked up for the evening), Churchill's Bunker, Imperial War Museum, Albert & Victoria Museum, Westminster Abbey, River Cruise on the River Thames to Greenwich, St. Paul's Church, Leicester Square, Victoria Station, Covent Garden, Buckingham Palace and went to see Billy Elliot. One day was for shopping where we went to Fortnum and Mason, Harrod's, Marks & Spencer (where I bought a rain jacket) and walked Oxford, Bond and Regent Streets. We had lunch in Harrod's.
Dolph was the navigator and he did an excellent job of navigating the tube. A few times we sat on the top deck of a bus to get to our destinatin.
Our meals included Indian, at an old London restaurant called Rules, pub lunches and Fish and Chips with Malt Vinegar on the Chips.
I called Dom's daughter Livvy and we met at the hotel for tea. It was great seeing her.
It was a great week, and we all would have loved more time in London and in Beverley.
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