2015-05-29, It's been a while...

I haven't been doing anything very interesting or exciting, but I thought I'd give you an overview of my last couple of weeks.

I did go out to dinner to a yakiniku (cook meat at your table) restaurant with 2 coworkers and that was really fun and delicious.

And last Sunday I had another 'sort of' coworker (she works down in the kindergarten so I don't see her very often) over for lunch and then we drove to some local sites.

Me

Wishes

Taga Shrine

An antique rice cooker.

Decorations on a house.

New word of the day - koke = moss.  Very pretty and soooo green!

Ito mochi, a specialty of Taga.  Ito means string and it's cut with a string
instead of a knife.  The colors are also applied with a string.

And I just got back from a zoo trip in Kyoto with the kindergartners.  It was a fun day although it's a pretty small zoo, which was good since I think it was about 90F and there wasn't much shade.  They petted a rabbit and a guinea pig, had lunch, got their pictures taken, and spent about 1 hour walking around.  The place was full of school groups.  Then back on the bus and happily most of them slept for the trip home.

The different color hats indicate different classes/age groups.
They're waiting to pet the guinea pig.

Lunch time.

A sampling of the cute lunch boxes the mom's packed.

My group.  6 children, 3 teachers and they still wandered...