Hello all, and happy Valentine’s Day!
We have been doing great! We had an awesome Valentine’s Day complete with lots of candy (and a couple small toys for Jordan), and Christian and I hunkered down after Jordan went to bed and watched “Definitely, Maybe”. Can’t have Valentine’s Day without a good romance movie, can you?
This week for our weekly excursion we decided to check out a local Japanese thrift store! We had heard a lot about them and had heard that they were different from US thrift stores, but had never visited one! Check out the video below!
Hope y’all had a good Valentine’s Day and we look forward to new adventures!
See you next time!
Brittany and Christian
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Week 27: Sapporo Ice Festival
This week's blog is written by a super-old 30-year-old guy who went to Sapporo without his amazing and understanding wife, leaving her all alone with their one-year-old son. That's right. I'm in charge today. Mwahahaha.
Anyway, this week, the brass quint(oct)et from the USARJ (United States Army Japan) Band were invited to perform at the annual Sapporo Ice and Snow Festival! It was such an amazing (and cold) experience. I ate WAY too much food and spent WAY too much on it, but it was incredibly fun! Below are some highlights, culminating in a video from my time there.
REALLY yummy dessert from one of the places I ate. Underneath that whipped cream is ice cream!
Awesome Final Fantasy XIV snow piece. It was like 50 feet tall!
Ol' Lenny, himself! Apparently he started the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo in 1990, but unfortunately passed away before it really got started. So he's kind of a big deal here.
Also, Sapporo must have a high concentration of Christianity because this was just one of several Christian churches I saw just in the few blocks of the city that we explored.
"This is the very steak. The big cut of steak." - Ikinari Steak.
And here's the montage video:
If you'd like to see the whole Final Fantasy video, you can CLICK HERE. And if you'd like to see the whole Leonard Bernstein video, you can CLICK HERE. (Note: the Bernstein video is about 15 minutes long.)
I got back in time for my birthday. Had an awesome day with the family. Then today we went out to a train hub (Sagami-Ono station) and just wandered and explored the shopping area around there.
See you next week!
Anyway, this week, the brass quint(oct)et from the USARJ (United States Army Japan) Band were invited to perform at the annual Sapporo Ice and Snow Festival! It was such an amazing (and cold) experience. I ate WAY too much food and spent WAY too much on it, but it was incredibly fun! Below are some highlights, culminating in a video from my time there.
They had a store for Final Fantasy stuff right next door. There were some really cool figurines, but the cheapest was about $70.
If you'd like to see the whole Final Fantasy video, you can CLICK HERE. And if you'd like to see the whole Leonard Bernstein video, you can CLICK HERE. (Note: the Bernstein video is about 15 minutes long.)
I got back in time for my birthday. Had an awesome day with the family. Then today we went out to a train hub (Sagami-Ono station) and just wandered and explored the shopping area around there.
See you next week!
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Week 26: Cup Noodles Museum
Hello friends!
This week we took a trip to Yokohama to visit the Cup Noodles Museum! Yes, I mean these things:
The inventor of Cup Noodles was Japanese. He invented Cup Noodles during war times in Japan when people were poor and hot meals were hard to come by. He invented a way to dehydrate a standard Japanese bowl of ramen so that those poor people could have cheap, hot meals. (Spoiler: it involves boiling the noodles in hot oil...one of the reasons Cup Noodles aren’t very healthy for you).
We had lots of fun at the museum! They had a little theater that showed a cute little video about the history of Cup Noodles, and they even had translator devices that allowed us to hear the video in English so we could actually understand it. They had several kid-friendly exhibits. One of the most popular activities at the museum is where you can help make your very own custom Cup Noodles, so we had fun designing and filling a cup with the ingredients we wanted. Watch the video below to see all the fun stuff we did at the museum!
We love sharing our adventures with you!
Love,
Brittany and Christian
This week we took a trip to Yokohama to visit the Cup Noodles Museum! Yes, I mean these things:
The inventor of Cup Noodles was Japanese. He invented Cup Noodles during war times in Japan when people were poor and hot meals were hard to come by. He invented a way to dehydrate a standard Japanese bowl of ramen so that those poor people could have cheap, hot meals. (Spoiler: it involves boiling the noodles in hot oil...one of the reasons Cup Noodles aren’t very healthy for you).
We had lots of fun at the museum! They had a little theater that showed a cute little video about the history of Cup Noodles, and they even had translator devices that allowed us to hear the video in English so we could actually understand it. They had several kid-friendly exhibits. One of the most popular activities at the museum is where you can help make your very own custom Cup Noodles, so we had fun designing and filling a cup with the ingredients we wanted. Watch the video below to see all the fun stuff we did at the museum!
We love sharing our adventures with you!
Love,
Brittany and Christian
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