The Stevenson Ohana

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Tokyo City Hiking

May 22, 2021:

From Tokyo, hiking has always been a littler harder to access and unusually require a long expensive train ride. We decided to instead "hike" through the city this day and put miles on exploring on foot for our "hike." We ended up starting from our house going to Naka-Meguro from Ramen (of course) and then went from Kanda to Ueno. There was a little train involved but did a lot of the city on foot this day.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Luke Lately! 4th Birthday

Luke turned 4!! Unreal! We had a great birthday celebration Saturday for him. We hired a young women friend in our ward to make Luke's cake, which was awesome! Luke requested to go to the 'train curry' place so we did that and then the park and went home and opened presents and played with the new legos and watched a movie with pizza dinner. It was a great day!

Luke is such a fun lovin kid-- he is so kind and fun. He is currently sitting next to me and I asked him what all his favorite things are as a 4 year old, here is the list:

- beach!!!

- "goggl-ing" in the bathtub and playing dolphin show

- drawing and painting

- car & trains, especially ones that go by themselves

- legos

- playdough

- ellie and milo

"that's all i like" AKA I'm done with this.

he requested french toast, and not pancakes

we found a black ladybug with red dots!

Friday, May 14, 2021

Zushi Beach - May 14th

May 14, 2021: We had an amazing last beach trip in Tokyo! We went to Zushi and were so surprised to find so many sand dollars along on the ocean floor in the shallow water. We collected them and played in the water and sand with the boys. They love the ocean and water. It really is the best playground. I hope the beach in the Netherlands will be easy to access and not too cold to enjoy.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

kamakura

May 14: After Zushi Beach we stopped off one train stop later in Kamakura area and explored there. Our weekends in Japan are running out and just trying to make the most of them. We ended the day filling our bellies at our favorite sushi place. We will miss you Japan!