This afternoon I went to Shirahama shrine with my family.
It was a first vist of this year for us.
We, Japanese visit shrine at the beginning of new year to pray our health and happiness.
As we are in the new year holiday there were a lot of people there.
Click here to see the picture which I took today.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
"Happy New Year!"
Last year we had a lot of problems afte the earthquake and the nuclear accident.
But I appriciate very mush we can greet the new year with my family.
May this new year turn out to be the happiest and the best for you.
This morning I took my daughter to the school and went to Shimoda downtown after thatn.
When I was driving in downtown I found out the dried fishes out of shop on the road.
I asked him to take pictures, and he told me that he waked up at 2:00 am every day.
"Every day?"
I said and he answered.
"Yes, because I have to start to make dried fishes to provide them to the travellers before noon."
"Really?"......
When I was taking pictures near the beach this morning I foud out my daughter was going to school.
She usually takes bike to go to the high school like this.
It takes about 1 hour, because she walks pushing her bike with her hands when she goes up the hill on the way to Shimoda town.
In addition, as we had strong west wind this morning it was very hard for her, because she had strong head wind from Sotoura beach to the downtown.
Click here to see the pictures which I took this morning.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today it was sunny again in Shimoda.
We had a little bit wind here in Shirahama but it was warm.
By the way, we had Long distance running competition at Shirahama primary school.
This marathon takes place on every December and a lot of parents and local peole come to school to support and cheer them.
This competition started at 9:20 AM.....
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On last Thursday and Friday we had strong wind and heavy rain like storm here in Shimoda.
But today it was beautiful and we could see the blue sky and sea after long time.
When I went to Shimoda dowmtown with my son I took some pictures on the beach.
The strong wind brought the sand from the beach to the road like this.
Click here to see the pictures which I took today.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Last week we cleaned the dining room.
After I put the tabels and the chairs out of dining room my son came back from school.
"Wao!"
He was excited and started to run around and jump in this room.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today my daughter had a game of ping pong at junior high school in Minami Izu town, so I took her with my son.
During her games, as we had 3 hours my son and I drove to southern part of Izu peninsula.
We saw the fisherman left for Ise ebi fishing from small fisherman's port.
They put the lobster net in the sea from now and will pull up them at around 4 or 5 AM tomorrow.
The period of lobster fishing is between September and May in Izu peninsula.
After school I went to the beach with my son as usual.
Yesterday we had very strong west wind here in Shimoda.
This morning we still had a little wind, but the wind was stopped after that and the sky was very clear.
We could see the Izu Seven Islands over the ocean.
My son was playing shooting his shoe!
Look at his hand.
There is someting on his parm.
Do you know what this is?
After school I went to pick up my son and went to the beach this late afternoon.
Before getting into the beach my son found out something and start running.
"Look at this, dad!" he said and licked it......
Yesterday the weather forecast said it would be colder, but it was not so cold today actually.
However we could see the Izu Oshima Island clearly from Sakuraya on the hill because the air, the sky and everything is getting into winter.
After school I went to pick up my son and went to the beach together.
This is "Shirahama Chuo Beach" next to "Shirahama Ohama Beach" which is the nearest one.
My son and I walked on the beach for a while. ( The small person in this picture is my son!)
Yesterday we had strong wind and heavy rain here in Shimoda.
It was almost typhoon, but we didn't have any problem with it.
Today the weather was changed!
We could see the blue sky and sea this morning, so I decided to go to the nearest beach "Shirahama" with my son this afternoon.
Today my son finished school at 2:30 PM.
As usual I went to pick up my son after school, and went to the beach together.
We played making art of shadow and hand writing on the sand.
It was fun!
This week and next week we have birthdays of my daughters, so we had a party tonight.
My first daughter has turned seventeen and my second daughter will turn fourteen next week.
"Time flies like an arrow"
They are getting older very soon.
I show you the pictures which I took on the beach today here.
On last Friday I went to Toi town in Izu city, on the other side of Izu peninsula, with my wife and her friends.
Long time ago there used be a lot of gold mine in this peninsula, but Toi gold mine was the largest one.
We can get into the mine by walking and there are museum and suvenir shops.
Here is a web page of this gold mine museum, which I have just made tonight.
You can see all pictures on the web page on facebook album here.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today my wife and I went to the Shirahama primary school.
We had a class observation of my son's class.
When we got to the school they were learning the living things of this season.
This week they are going to go outisede to explor and find out the plants and the bugs.
In this season we set up the fences on the beach.
Because we have strong north east wind between autumn and spring, and because we have to protect the sand on the beach from this wind.
Today we had a work to set up the fences from 7:00 AM.
In this early morning we had a heavy rain and stopped raining before work, but it began to rain again after we started to work.
However we finished to do it in the rain......
In last one week we have been very busy, so we could not go to the beach.
But today I went to the beach with my son after school.
At this point in the Shirahama beach there are a lot of flotsam, and Yuuki played with them.
Hello, how have you been?
This is Yuuki.
In this season we can see many kinds of fruit at the super market in Japan.
Today my grand mother who lives in Miyazaki sent us these fruits.
This is a Pear, but this pear is bigger than the other kind of pear in Japan.
The flavor is like grape and very sweet.
Thank you, grand ma!
Today it was sunny after 3 days, but we had a cold horth wind.
I watched TV news this evening and they said they had first snow of this season in Hokkaido today.
That7s why it was a little cold here in Shimoda.
But the weather forecast says it will be sunny this weekend.
By the way I went to the nearest beach called Shirahama Beach with my son after school.
There were some surfers in the water but nobody was swimming today.
Every day my son, Yuuki has to do homework.
For example, writing and reading in Japanese or math.
Today he had to study how to write Japanese Kanji character.
When I was looking at him my wife said,
"In these days the primary school students have to learn more difficult Kanji character than we did."
"Oh, really? Let me check it.".......
This time the typhoon attacked Japan and landed in Shizuoka Pref.
We had been in blackout for 5 hours from 4:00 PM, but the power supply was cut off in some places near Shimoda for 24 hours.
Anyway we are all safe.
Today I went to the beach with my son after school to take pictures.
It was really beautiful day and they had good waves for surfing in Shirahama.
Yuuki's birthday is September 17th actually, but it is Saturday during busy holidays this year and we will have a lot of customers.
So we decided to have a Birthday Party tonight.
This morning I had already told him about this party, so he couldn't wait for it after school.
"What time will we start the party?"
Because he will get birthday prezents!......
Today it was very beautiful day and very hot here in Shimoda.
when I went to the super market to buy icecreams with my son we went to the beach to take photos.
There were some people on the beach and the blue water was shinning under the sun.
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Pension Sakuraya in Shirahama, Shimoda
During summer, as we are very busy we can't go anywhere with my children.
However, when we have a time I go to the beach for swimming with my children twice or 3 times a summer.
I was going to the beach today again, but it was cloudy. So I decided to go to the aquarium with my son, Yuuki.
It was a second time for him to go there.
My son was very excited and happy today.
Since August 18th it had been cloudy, rainy and windy here in Shirahama.
But it was sunny and very hot today after long time.
After we finished cleaning up the guest rooms I went to the beach to take pictures with my son.
There were a lot of people on the beach and we could see the real blue water today.
As we didn't have many guest rooms which we have to clean I went to the nearest beach Shirahama with my son.
It was very beautiful day and there were a lot of people on the beach.
The water was warmer than last time, July 10th.
It was very comfortable to get into the water under the sun.
This afternoon we got a box by delivery service.
It was sent by my father lives in my home town, Miyazaki Pref. in Kyushu.
We opened it and found out grapes and pears.
My son, Yuuki loves them very much and was excited.
It was very sweet and delicious!!
Thank you very much.
Summer came back to Shirahama again.
In these days it had been cloudy, rainy and windy here in Shirahama, but we could see the blue sky and sea today.
I went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" with my son, Yuuki.
We still had big waves, but there were a lot of people on the beach.
The weather forecast says we will have a shower in early morning tomorrow, but it will be sunny and hot after that.
It's a good news for us and our customers.
By the way I show you my son after long time .....
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When I was cleaning guest rooms after check-out my son came and said,
"There is nothing to do, and I'm getting tired, dad.!
I had a lot of things to do and was very busy today, but I decided to go to the beach with my son for swimming.
Because we will have a lot of guests next weekend, and I will not be able to swim with him.
The water was stil a little bit cold, but we could have a good time on the beach.
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