Shopping Spree ( A late report ) Just like many other people in Japan, I always look forward to Golden Week.There are many reasons for waiting for Golden Week, but every year I have one specific unchanged plan for Golden Week— a shopping [...]
Trip to Seattle 4 (postscript) Hi, there !1 We are already back2 in Sendai. However, since I still have something to write about3, this series will continue. As I mentioned before, our house is not exactly in Seattle but on an island. According to Grandpa, it is the longest island in [...]
Trip to Seattle 3 We went to downtown Seattle. Every year we go to Pike Place Market for fun and I go in the 1st Starbucks coffee shop to check what kind of tumblers they’ve got1. ( Some of the readers might know that I’m a Starbucks tumbler collector! ) [...]
Trip to Seattle 2 We went to the beach to take a walk, which is just a 10-minute walk1 from our house. Will’s family used to live in Seattle, but now they live on one of the islands around Seattle. I didn’t know that before, but the Seattle and Vancouver area has [...]
Trip to Seattle 1 Leaving our dog to the housesitter, we came over to Seattle, where Will is from. We’ve been trying to pay a yearly visit to1 his folks2 for the last 12 years except last year. For us, this is a very special event of the year — a family [...]