Tamie needs to wake up in 5 hours to catch her 6:20am bus to get to the airport to catch her 11am flight. Fun times. Even funner is the week I’ll spend looking after Layla. Tamie’s folks won’t get her until Friday, so it’ll be a busy time for the next few days… not as busy as Tamie will be in India, mind you!
Friday I went out with some former colleagues and had a good time catching up. Tamie ended up staying at her parents’ house due to her dislike of seeing me inebriated, and I ended up sleeping on the couch due to aforementioned inebriation.
Saturday, I ended up meeting Tamie after her dental appointment and we headed to the grandparents’ house to pick up Layla together. Once we were reunited at the house, Tamie suggested we head out for an unplanned picnic up in Shonandaira. Sounded like a good idea to me, not realizing she meant up in the mountains instead of down on the beach. We drove through McDonald’s (what better picnic food is there?) before heading up to our picnic spot. Layla fell asleep on the way, lucky kid.
After we arrived, Layla wasn’t a very happy camper – judging by the volume of her snoring, we woke her up right in the middle of a deep sleep. She clung to me and tried to sleep as we ate, but after that she was quite happy. Especially after discovering a swing set and a double slide! She had a blast playing on the playground equipment!
We ended up exploring the area a little bit, hiking down a path quite a ways. Tamie didn’t want to go too far as she was worried Layla wouldn’t be able to make it back up and I’d have to carry her. We ended up going down a lot farther than I think she’d have liked, but much to both our surprises Layla made it down and back with little trouble. Only at the end of the hike back up did she stop and ask me to carry her — had she gone a few more meters, she’d have done the whole hike herself!
On our way back to drop off the car, we stopped to shop for some more clothes for Layla – she outgrows everything in a matter of weeks sometimes. Right now, it seems like all her pants don’t go down much past her knee! I think there must be a collection of long pants at the daycare or in the laundry, but for the life of me I can’t find it! So we went to the nearby baby store to pick some up… the kid chose PINK pants. I was shocked. PINK! Of all the colours… The only consolation was she also chose some camouflage cargo pants too.
We ended up staying for supper at the grandparents’ house, as they were worried their poor daughter would miss the taste of sushi in her week in India. I was thinking the same thing, taking Tamie for sushi back in Ebina, so it all worked out pretty well!
Sunday was a lazy day, as Sunday’s usually are. We shopped around for some things for Layla’s planned graduation into the next level of daycare and for some last minute things Tamie needed to pick up for her trip. Not very exciting, but at least it was somewhat relaxing.
New pictures, as always can be found in The gallery.
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Pics from the long weekend
Pics from Hiking
Pics from Sunday
