The Girls go Down Town!

Harley, Niyah, and I went to down town Tokyo a while ago for some modeling stuff and decided to make it a fun girls day. Lets just say my two oldest girls, they are a LOT of fun!

Riding the trains down, my girls are so good at this now, I can tell them which train we need next and what line its on and they happily point out the signs and show the way to go.

We stopped near the temple just for a look around. I love letting the girls feel the difference of the Temple versus the busy city all around them. We also went in the Distribution center and I let the girls get little CTR pins.

Then after trying on some cloths for the modeling agency we went out for dinner and ice cream at the New Sanno.

Look at those eyes!

DON'T take a picture mom!

They are so silly together, I love that they are best friends.

I'm STUFFED!

I think she got chocolate in her eye....

What chocolate?

Having fun at the New Sanno

Then we started to head back. Across the street from this picture is this WONDERFUL bakery just down from the Temple. I love it. Well I love it when it has my favorite cheese bread in stock which it hasn't the last three times!!! But I do love it.

Then we headed back on a very busy train ride.

I love spending time with my girls!

Hakone Open Air Museum

We were happy to go with the home school group on a field trip to the Hakone Open Air Museum. It was a really great trip and the girls had lots of fun.

Here is some of the home school group outside the museum.


The girls relaxed


Ran around....


and had all sorts of fun.



Alright as I was going through the pictures this one just made me stop. Is it just me or is my "baby" meaning Harley looking way to grown up. Someone please make her stop.



The museum is really beautiful and as the name states its in the "open air". Which means you enjoy the beautiful mountains of Hakone while looking at art.

Some art was just neat. Harley loved this one. (just a note many of the art was of nude figures.... just so if you ever go you are prepared for your children when they ask why are they all naked..)

Stopping to feed the fish

Some art was built to play on, this bee hive one is awesome!

I took ten pictures trying to get all the kids to look at the camera, as you can see I was not successful, they were to excited.

Come back Gena!

My view looking up. :)

Some of the art was weird......

Some was beautiful. This stain glass tower was great!
Looking up the inside of the tower.

Looking down the inside of the tower

The view from the top

Relaxing in the hot foot bath was a nice idea..... of course its hard to relax when you are keeping your children from swimming in it.

They did have an indoor Picasso museum, the girls were not very impressed by Picasso, I must say I wasn't either. Do you see the girls way down there?

I liked this one

This art to play on was the best of all!

Because inside it looked like this!

Great right?
It has a name:

The girls really wanted to climb the outside.....

Harley pondering on what the statue is supposed to be.

The girls went in the:

I guess some people get married here. It would be pretty.

Gena even enjoyed herself.

I really liked this sculpture. It was so high in the sky though. That later when I zoomed in on the picture I noticed that yep he was naked too. I guess that's art for you?

It was a great trip and I suggest anyone who can, go. It was really inexpensive too!

CANYONING!!

A few months ago ( yes I'm still catching up!) me and Jeb went canyoning. We have wanted to go ever since we first came here but just haven't made it. I am so glad we did it was amazing! My only wish that we could have went for a longer tour and that we had gone more then once. You can only go in the summer and we won't be here next summer. :(

The drive up was beautiful!

Me being silly at the rest stop.

Then we arrived and got suited up to go. Here is Jeb, grrrrr he is so ready.

I was so excited

Here we go!

The scenery.... gorgeous!

Sliding down waterfalls, so much fun!

I could have stayed and hung out here all day.

Lets Jump!

They made us go backwards. I didn't like to, it hurts your neck when you hit the water. Still fun though

And some video, the first one is me being sent down the waterfall, For whatever reason the guide decided to stop me in the middle of the waterfall. I couldn't figure it out and was trying to make it go when he let it go. You can hear Jeb and the others laughing at me, apparently I'm the only one who got stopped in the waterfall. Nice.

This is a video of Jeb jumping off of one waterfall.

This was a great day. So much fun and I wish we could go back!

Here is the places website! http://canyons.jp/Canyoning_H.html