Weeks 11-12: The REAL Lalaport playplace, Japanese car show, and Tokyo Water Science Museum

It's been a crazy two weeks!

First of all, last week we had our first typhoon come through: Typhoon Lan! We were prepared with our disaster kits, and we were getting all kinds of emergency alerts and it rained pretty hard, but in our area we never got anything more than heavy rain and just enough wind to knock people's bikes over on their front porches. We have read that most of the damage was caused to fishing boats and crops. People who live around here say we usually get at least five typhoons a year. So I guess we will be seeing more of them!

After being so let down about the "really cool playplace" that turned out to be a dud last week, I researched again online and found our mistake -- we'd gone to the wrong floor of the mall! So we decided to go again, and finally found the right playplace! It wasn't free like some people were saying, but it was definitely super fun for Jordan! Enjoy the video below.


This week we went with a friend (whose toddler son is just about Jordan's age and is his new best friend) to a pumpkin patch at the nearby Atsugi Naval Air Facility Base. Jordan had fun picking out a pumpkin... and hugging it. He likes to hug everything lately.

Jordan loves hugging his pumpkin.

This week we decided to go to Tokyo and go to the Tokyo Water Science Museum, which we heard was a fun free place to take kids. On our way there, we saw a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses at the train station who were handing out pamphlets. Notable because a vast majority of Japanese consider themselves part of the Shinto religion. There isn't much representation from other religions here, like there is in America.

Also right off the train station, we saw a car show for cars with tricked-out audio systems. So we stopped and looked for a while and then headed to the Water Science Museum. Here is the video of the car show and Water Science Museum (minus the Jehovah's Witnesses because it probably would have been awkward to film them passing out their pamphlets)!


That's about it for now! Stay tuned for next week!