Saturday we spent the day in Yokohama, starting off with some high tea at a fancy hotel restaurant, the SomerHouse at the Pan Pacific Hotel (obviously Tamie’s choice =)). We’d been there once before and it was a good time, this time was just as good. Layla was quite happy to steal the best food from Tamie’s plate and Tamie was quite happy to let her.
The best, though, was when the waitress brought us a glass of water that we wanted to use to give Layla medicine. In this case, Tamie used a spoon, picked up some water and mixed in the medicinal powder. The waitress, upon seeing Tamie scoop up the water from the glass with the spoon, rushed over apologizing profusely thinking there must have been something in it. Even after we said it was okay and shoo’d her away, she kept her eye on us and the water.
After tea, we took a walk around Yokohama, wandering through the amusement park and around the area checking out the sakura. The weather was perfect, not too hot and definitely not too cold. Tamie and Layla raced – Layla even counts “Ready, Set, Go”, but in Japanese. It’s so cute. Tamie counting down with her? Priceless.
At the amusement park, Layla would run up to a ride and say she wanted to get on… I’d tell her to watch it first and then decide. In almost every case, she’d watch and I’d ask in the middle ‘So you want to ride?’ and her answer would be the same ‘No thank you, I’m too small’. The one kid roller coaster she did want to ride she worked up the nerve to get in line. The lady asked her how old she was and when she said she was only 2 it was a no-go. She was tall enough, but unfortunately the age limit was 3… so we’ll be back in 2 months.
At the end of the day, we did some shopping before ending up at Sizzler for dinner. Neither of us had ever been to a Sizzler before and were surprised at the long line to get in. American chains here are overly popular for some reason. (apparently, at the Krispy Kreme opening in Nagoya, thousands of people showed up, some waiting over NINE hours in line. For donuts! It’d be faster to fly to Hawaii to get some!)
The Sizzler was actually decent, only because it had the biggest salad bar I’d seen in this country, with a drink and dessert bar to boot. Tamie made some complaints about the stains in the coffee cups, but it being self-serve she wisely looked at all of them and took a clean one. Layla really enjoyed the dessert bar – going back a couple times for sprinkles on her ice cream and then finishing off with the chocolate-fountain-dipped bananas and strawberries!
Sunday was a bit of a lazy day, not really doing anything but lounging around the house after calling my folks. Layla was a bit under the weather so we took it easy, eventually doing a bit of shopping. Tonight at supper she was complaining about having some pain in her tummy which we attributed to her trying out her ‘training pants’ for the first time. She switched back to a diaper, right before throwing up all over the floor. Guess it wasn’t the pants… She’s in bed now and hopefully feels better tomorrow.
For now, though, here’s the pictures from the weekend:
Yokohama Day!
