A day to the beach

The japanese version of snow cone, "kakikoori"



 A hot summer day, we just got our new car and decided to go for a drive. A 30minutes drive from to seaside is just ideal for the husband. One of the reason we like living in yokohama is a short drive to the seaside and easy accessible to many of the sightseeing spot. Yokohama and Japan overall is foreign and new to us  so we are just like another tourist, there are so much more to discover and to see in japan for us.

A little piece of art

 Painting with rolling balls.

Ai is more intrerested in opening and close fixing the water colour cap.

When we still have not get our stuff , i found a few water colour cube in the luggage and here is a simple activity that keep them busy for a while.

The new habitat

 

This is our new habitat. Kids are excepting slowly that we are here to live here and not returning to houston but adjusting from living in an acrerage home to a 800sq ft is not easy. We always bump into stuff and furniture around us. We are so lucky to have that little backyard. We are planning to turn that into our little garden and vegetable cultivation centre. The front of the house is facing west, during the summer it was really absorbing the heat, you cant stay in without the aircond pass 10am. unlike in houston there is no central heating/cooling a/c. we only have 1 split unit in the kitchen/living area and 1 unit up in the master bedroom. you can hardly go upstair during the day, feel like you are trap in a sauna room. weather is cooling down now and we are expecting to enjoy our new cozy home more.

The trucks are here

 

Unloading the biggest problem, the husband's kayak. We are lucky to have some little space beside our car park and a small backyard. We have to just put the kayak outside at the parking space and i forsee that it wont be used for a long long time. That is the good thing here in japan, you can put almost stuff unlocked outside and they will still be there safe and untouched.

After 1.5 month waiting at last our stuff from Houston are here. Kids are so excited to get back all their toys and books. We can only 30% of our space in Houston and all the boxes are all overflowing the whole house. We spent 2 weeks figure out how to organise stuff and we are about 50% done. Of course there are still alot of unopened boxes laying in one of the room. I was a abit upset with losing the space for our classroom but after alot of moving and rearrange stuff around at last we made a small space in a room for classroom. I guess i will have to give up putting out work the montessori way and figure out what are the best way to keep our classroom working. I will at least take another 2-3 months  to finish with our unpacking and organising of stuff.

Earthquake

We had a quick but strong quake the other day. It was the 7th tremor we felt since we moved back. Tremor is becoming part of our daily life. I dont remember we had this much quake when we lived here 3 years ago. I only experienced one after shock tremor in 1.5years living in Chiba last time. For the first time Yuta witnessed what actually were going on. He saw his Thomas train track moving around on the floor. He still call earthquake tsunami after watching all the news about tsunami 6 months ago. Though buildings here are very well quake proof but  thinking of when he big one will be here and when one will really hit us scare me. With all these aftershock and tremor, i cant stop feeling that a big one will be here in near future. Just saw the news today that Yokohama has a very high chance of getting hit by a big tsunami next. Pray hard and better get ourselves all well prepare.