tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88764344754183616652024-03-09T05:34:54.093+10:00KRAFTY KAYLEEKayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-30720345501713871522018-12-27T07:03:00.004+10:002018-12-27T07:03:47.236+10:0080TH BIRTHDAY and FIRST GRANDCHILD<br />
Another "0" Birthday in our family for 2018, My Mum turned 80 on Monday 10th December, 2018. We celebrated with a Birthday lunch on Saturday 8th December, 2018.<br />
There were 8 siblings in my Mum's family, Mum being the 3rd born and now the eledest as her 2 older Brothers have passed. This photo is with the Eldest sister and the youngest sister, there is 15 years between them. We celebrated with a home lunch and lots of memories shared. Youngest sister and her hubby live about 1-1/4 hours away from us and we invited them as a surprise, Mum was very surprised when they arrived.<br />
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This was the lunch spread<br />
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Mum with youngest sister and brother in law<br />
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Mum, Kate (almost ready to have baby) and me<br />
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Mum with her huge Birthday cake, Stephen & me, Kate & Josh<br />
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2 days later Monday 10th December 2018, Kate gave birth to our first grand child, a baby boy named James Stephen born at 9.37am weighing 3,400 grams and 50cm long. Such excitement in the house waiting for the phone call, I literally jumped up and down with excitement exclaiming "I'm a Grandma, I'm a Grandma" and of course tears flowing.....<br />
James Stephen Brazier was born 80 years after his Great Grandma, Mum is most excited.....<br />
This is the first photo we received and had to wait an hour to find out if we had a grandson or a grand daughter. Kate wanted to tell us so they face timed us once they were back in her room. Josh NEVER smiles in photos, his face looks like he caught the biggest fish in his life...….<br />
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James, Kate and Great Grandma<br />
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Granny, Grandma and James</div>
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Four generations photo, Great Grandma, (AKA Granny), Grandma, Mum and James<br />
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And of course a photo with Grandma and Grandpa<br />
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Aunty Rebecca and James<br />
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Grandpa Stephen with James Stephen<br />
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Kate and James after a feed in hospital<br />
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Kate, Josh and James just before leaving hospital<br />
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James 4 days old<br />
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James and Grandma<br />
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James and Grandma<br />
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James and Grandma</div>
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Stay tuned for more photos...…. So, I have seen James everyday since he was born, he is now 17 days old. James is definitely a Brazier, he looks just like his Daddy.....<br />
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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, Our best Christmas pressie ever...……. <br />
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Cheers<br />
KayleeKayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-14957537923662039292018-12-02T10:58:00.004+10:002018-12-02T10:58:51.441+10:0040TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary a week ago, Sunday 25th November, 2018.</div>
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So many said it wouldn't last, we dated for 7 months when we were married on Saturday 25th November 1978. Many years after we were married my brother told me that several of my family members including my Mum and Dad sat around putting bets on how many years it would last.</div>
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This is a collage of a few photos of us over the years.</div>
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Stephen and I last Sunday at Kate's house<br />
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Rebecca and her boy friend cooked us a most delicious Lasagne for dinner, Kate did the salad....<br />
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… and a small piece of cheese cake for dessert<br />
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Not long till we're first time grandparents.....<br />
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Cheers<br />
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We had Kate's baby shower on Saturday 10th November, I wanted to share some photos of the gorgeous Mother to be.</div>
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Kate bought this new dress for her baby shower, it suits her so much, she is just glowing, pregnancy suits her so well. <br />
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I love this photo, the expectant Mother, the most excited first time Grandma (aka me!!)<br />
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The two first time Grandma's<br />
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Kate looks so wonderful, she hasn't put on any weight in herself, only a baby belly<br />
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Kate and her BFF (they went to school together), this is Karly's second baby, he was born on 21st September.<br />
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Kate opening one of the gifts with her Goddaughter Emelia, who is totally excited.<br />
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My niece, Kate's cousin, Lisa and her little boy Charlie. Kate and Lisa are great friends, Lisa is an only child.<br />
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So, our other big news is, we decided to sell at The Tweed and move closer to Kate, Josh and our first grandchild. We put our house up for sale at the beginning of August, it took 7 weeks to sell and a long settlement. Settlement was last Friday, 23rd November, 2018. What a job, we've been at this house for 11 years and we had TOO much stuff, we took 2 tons to the rubbish tip, I sold over $900 of things we no longer required. We took several load of all sorts of things to op shops around our area. It was still a very big move. Saturday 17th November we hired a truck to do a pre move before the removalists came. Kate, Josh, our good friends and us loaded the truck which Stephen drove, Kate and Josh had a ute and a trailer full of plants and other stuff from the shed. I drove one of our cars with the boot and back seat packed full. John and Vicki had their car packed full and we headed off in convoy style with our 2hour trip ahead of us. That was a big day, we arrived back home in the truck at 9.30pm. The Sunday Stephen and I packed the kitchen up, which took all day. The removalists arrived at 8.15am on the Monday morning with a LARGE truck and packed it full but it still didn't fit everything, we packed our car again and we were on the 2 hour journey again. On Tuesday morning Stephen and John went back to the Tweed with car and trailer and filled it with the bags and boxes the removalists couldn't fit in the truck the day before...…. we're finally here and settled. <br />
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We bought a 3/4 acre block of land at Elimbah, 15 minutes from Kate's house. We are currently renting Kate and Josh's first home at Narangba until our new home is built.<br />
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Lots of exciting times ahead and super excited about our Christmas gift, a grandchild.<br />
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Kaylee<br />
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Continuing with our big celebrations of 2018, I turned 60 last Saturday, 22nd September, 2018. Friday I caught the train to Narangba, my bestie, Vicki collected me from the train station and we went to North Lakes where Vicki took me to lunch to a great Thai place for a lunch and we also had a yummy cocktail, after lunch we shopped for a couple of hours.</div>
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Our lunch, we had already started when I remember a photo...…………..<br />
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Saturday, my Birthday, Vicki came over after lunch with this gorgeous cupcake tower, the cakes were carrot cake, so delicious and moist, they also had edible stickers of "60" and "made in 1958".<br />
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I have been on a health regime and lost 5 kgs, I still enjoyed a lovely cupcake "made in 1958" with a cup of tea, so delicious.<br />
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The week before Kate said she'd booked a restaurant for dinner for 8 which included the 6 of us and my friend Vicki and her husband. However when we arrived there were 2 tables together with seats for 20 people with balloons and little stars on the table. It was such a great surprise when our family and friends started coming through the door.<br />
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Kate, Rebecca and me, Rebecca acting like she's pregnant after her big meal. <br />
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My 2 besties, Vicki on the left, we went to high school together and have been friends for a very long time. Casey on my right whom I've known for around 38 years, I met Casey at Shop 21where she worked as a shop assistant in George Street, Brisbane back in 1980, not long after we moved from Rockhampton to Strathpine. We have been great friends ever since...….<br />
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Me with my gorgeous Kate who is my first born and turned 30 in March and is now pregnant with her first child and our first grandchild, so exciting..... You wouldn't know it from this photo but Kate is now 28 weeks pregnant and due mid December. Before my Birthday we saw her last on Father's Day and she didn't have a baby bump, 3 weeks later and when I saw her Friday 21st September, I was so excited to finally see a baby bump. She has been very lucky and has been very well and not even missed a day of work since becoming pregnant.<br />
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Our niece Lisa with her gorgeous little man, Charlie who turned 2 in August, he is just so cute and gives me cuddles all the time.<br />
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My SIL, Josh acting the fool with his pregnant belly, hahahaha. He's so tall, to be able to get him in the photo we don't get to see the pregnant belly of the actual person who is pregnant.<br />
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My lovely Birthday cake made by my gorgeous Rebecca.<br />
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It was a great night and weekend with many surprises. The balloons have been in my craft room since we came home on Monday and they are still about 1/2 inflated, I've been looking at them all week.<br />
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Cheers<br />
KayleeKayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-27337598451416210462018-09-11T13:30:00.001+10:002018-09-11T13:34:43.746+10:00JAPAN 2018 - PART 10Day 16 - Friday 13th April, 2018<br />
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We had a day trip to Kyoto, we arrived at Shin Osaka train station and caught the 9.42am train to Kyoto arriving at 10.10am. We went straight to the information centre and purchased a bus day trip for Y600, to hop on and off buses all day.<br />
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Walking to and from the train station from our hotel we saw this daily, men and women with children on their bikes, sometimes 2 and 3 children.<br />
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After arriving at Kyoto our first stop was to Kennin-ji Temple Grounds<br />
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and the Kodai-ji Temple area<br />
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In the gardens area we came across a Maiko (a Geisha in training) having her photo taken, we stood watching her for about 15 minutes along with many other Japanese tourists.<br />
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We met this lovely group of ladies and 1 man, I was talking to the lady in the front wearing black and white, she asked where we were from and said she had been to Australia 2 years ago. She spoke quite good English.<br />
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We then walked a short distance to Gion where there were many people<br />
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We saw lots of girls and ladies wearing Kimono's, in Spring they all head to Kyoto and wear Kimono's around, many of them are Chinese tourists.<br />
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Looking down this alley I saw a lady watering plants<br />
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We came to the Shoren-in Temple and saw a family wearing Kimono's, there were food stalls around this area.<br />
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Chion in Temple<br />
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Yasaka Shrine<br />
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Passing through these Torii gates we leave the Temple/Shrine area<br />
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We then came across Maruyama Park<br />
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We were a little exhausted so we sat for about 20 minutes and took in the surroundings<br />
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3 friends wearing Kimono's<br />
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A man feeding pidgeons<br />
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Crow in a tree<br />
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A Wedding<br />
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As we were walking out of the park we came across a man selling whole steamed potatoes, we were so excited as we hadn't had any potato for over 2 weeks, it was Y300 and we enjoyed it so much, of course he only had chop sticks but we managed...…...<br />
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We caught another bus to Ponto-cho and the Kamo River<br />
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At the entrance is this timber post/plaque explaining the history of Ponto-cho<br />
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The next 9 photos are taken down ally's in Ponto-cho<br />
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We then made our way back to catch a bus to the Kyoto train station, can you see the little Koala on my backpack ?<br />
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Kyoto train station is a very big building.<br />
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The escalators go up and up forever<br />
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We got back to the train station and had a coffee and charged my iPhone waiting for our train back to Osaka.<br />
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Another fully packed exhausting day, we arrived back to Osaka at 6.30pm<br />
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That concludes our week in Osaka, the next post will see us in Hiroshima.<br />
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Day 15 - Thursday 12th April, 2018<br />
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Today is our visit to the Yamazaki Whiskey Distillery, I booked this tour in February, they only take a certain number in each tour (there are 4 in a day) so you need to book in advance, I booked us in the last tour of the day at 2.50pm. Only Y1,000 (approx. A$12.65) which includes tastings at the end of the tour.<br />
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We left the hotel at 10 am and decided to have another stroll along the Tenjinbashisuji arcade before taking the train to the Yamazaki Whiskey Distillery, you can buy anything down this arcade. We purchased some lovely gifts to bring home to Australia.<br />
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We came across this liquor shop selling Yamazaki whiskey along with other Japanese whiskey's so much cheaper than you can buy in Australia. I should have bought a bottle from here as they didn't sell it at the distillery which was disappointing and I didn't see it again in any of the liquor shops for the remainder of our travels.<br />
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These steps are at the Osaka train station<br />
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I took this photo from the train, typical Japanese apartment living with washing out on the balconies and the bedding airing over the balconies.<br />
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Yamazaki station is where we got off, this is the town we walked through to get to the distillery.<br />
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We walked across train tracks to get to the distillery<br />
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We had to wait at the boom gates as there was a train crossing<br />
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It was a 15 minute walk through the town to reach the distillery, luckily there was signage for us to follow.<br />
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Here we are at Yamazaki Distillery<br />
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Mr. Torii, the founder of Suntory<br />
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Our lovely tour guide, the tour is done in Japanese although the guide did speak English, I was talking with her after the tour. They do have English, Chinese and French audio, at each spot the tour guide was talking in Japanese we needed to press a number on the audio device to hear it in English. <br />
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Hundreds and hundreds of barrels<br />
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I came across the year 1992, my youngest daughter was born in this year<br />
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One of the distilling pots, very hot and smelly in this room<br />
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The end of the tour and there is a beautiful serene garden out the back with a lovely waterfall<br />
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They even have a shrine on the grounds<br />
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Statues of Mr. Torii<br />
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Finally here we are at the tastings, they were more than tastings, more than a nip in each glass.<br />
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We were given instructions before drinking each one and explained to us at which stage of the distilling they were from. We were also given a bottle of soda water which I thought was to drink alone and had already poured into my glass, but no we were to fill the glass with ice then pour the whiskey over the ice and then pour in the soda water, hahahaah………….<br />
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This is the soda water which Suntory also produce at the Yamazaki distillery as they have very pure water which makes the whiskey so great and delicious.<br />
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I was going to add our day trip to Kyoto as well but so far the post is still all here so I'll end it and start another one. I don't want to risk losing this for a third time.</div>
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Kaylee</div>
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Day 13 - Tuesday 10th April, 2018</div>
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We purchased and Osaka Amazing Pass which cost JY3,300 to use 2 days consecutively. If you visit Osaka this is a must, you get unlimited subway travel and admission to around 50 places in Osaka. Obviously you won't get to see it all but try and fit in as much as you can. We used it Tuesday and Wednesday. </div>
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Our first stop on Tuesday was to Osaka Castle, we took the loop train to Osaka station and 2 subway trains to arrive at the station closest to Osaka Castle, mind you we still had to walk 20 minutes before reaching the Castle. </div>
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This photo is taken from about 5 minutes walk from the station, we still have a long walk to the castle which is built on a hill so we had to walk up many steps as well, we were a little exhausted by the time we reached the outside of the castle.</div>
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There is a really lovely gardens area before going over the bridge over the moat with hundreds of trees, all the plum trees were in bloom and looked glorious.<br />
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Osaka Castle was one of my favourites, it's so big and towers over the city with 5 levels, thankfully they have a lift for going up only, we waited in line for 30 minutes to catch the lift as its small and doesn't hold many people. You can walk up but as we knew we'd be walking down we decided to conserve our energy and take the lift up. </div>
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A man painting<br />
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We sat for 20 minutes under the shade of trees<br />
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OsakaJokoen Station and caught a train back to Osaka station<br />
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We enjoyed a yummy chicken curry lunch in a café at Osaka station<br />
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Next stop was to visit the Umeda Sky Building<br />
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It was very windy on the viewing deck<br />
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The escalators down are very long and steep<br />
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This is a model in a glass case in the foyer<br />
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Day 14 - Wednesday 11th April, 2018<br />
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We caught the train to the Tempozan Ferris wheel<br />
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It's very big and my first time to ride in one of these big wheels<br />
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It was very windy up high and the carriage was moving and making lots of loud noises...……..<br />
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The Diamond Princess cruise ship was in port, it's a very big ship<br />
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<br /> We were so high up, we towered high above the Diamond Princess<br />
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The Tempozan Marketplace was next to the wheel so we went in for a shop and then had lunch at the eatery, the place was packed with people from the cruise ship and took us awhile to get a seat.<br />
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I had fried rice and Gyoza, this was one of my favourite meals on my travels<br />
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We then walked back to the train station, look at these gorgeous pansies<br />
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We caught the train to Dotonbori, I bought some gorgeous fabric from one of the shops<br />
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Back in our hotel room after dinner we enjoyed some of Rikuro's famous cheesecake. They are so delicious, if you ever get a chance to try some you'll love it.<br />
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If you're a whiskey lover as I am you'll enjoy my next post.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Kaylee<br />
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The last couple years <a href="https://hibiscus-stitches.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Anthea of Hibiscus Stitches</a> and I have done Birthday swaps. Anthea's Birthday is in March and mine is in September. Anthea came up with the suggestion for this year that we swap for both in July and make each other a large pin cushion and some extras.</div>
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This is what I received from Anthea, my lovely big pin cushion, 3fat quarters by Bonnie & Camille, quilting pins and a Thimble blossoms pin. I love my B & C fabrics.</div>
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I wasted no time putting pins in my new pin cushion<br />
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To show you the size, I have taken a photo of my old and new pin cushions, the old one is now in the bin. Thank you Anthea, another great Birthday swap, looking forward to next year.<br />
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These are the gifts I sent to Anthea, I purchased all of Anthea's gifts through my travels in Japan back in April. The gorgeous card came from Kyoto.<br />
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I made the pin cushion with Japanese fabrics as well, to show the size I have taken a photo of it next to a roll of masking tape (Washi Tape)<br />
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The owl coaster and little note pad are from Nara<br />
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These gorgeous fabrics came from Osaka<br />
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This beautiful piece of Kimono silk came from Kyoto from the Nishijin Textile Company<br />
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This piece also is from Nippori<br />
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KayleeKayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-40163999391465307082018-08-15T13:35:00.002+10:002018-08-15T13:35:32.639+10:00JAPAN 2018 - PART 7Day 12 - Monday 9th April, 2018<br />
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Nara Deer Park, just a warning - this post is HEAVY with photos...….. I know all my Japan posts have lots of photos but this one at Nara Deer Park have a lot....<br />
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Our day started early as we had to catch 2 trains to arrive at Nara from Osaka. As we purchased a Green Card (Executive class) JR Pass for our travel throughout Japan you can book seats in advance or on the day of travel, however as their is usually only 1 Green carriage per train it's best to book a couple of days prior to enable priority seating. The trains are so comfortable and luxurious. This is a photo inside the train, they recline and also have a foot rest and a table, you are allowed to eat on these trains, you can bring your own food or buy Bento's from the food outlets at the station, but if you're running late and I stress allow to be early as these trains leave ON TIME.... Love young ladies<br />
come through with a trolley to purchase food, hot & cold beverages. They also come through with a large bag collecting rubbish before reaching your destination.<br />
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The seating allocation is displayed to find easily<br />
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Nara train station<br />
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This large poster was at the train station displayed with the date<br />
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So these next few photos will give you a bit of a giggle...….. Me trying to get a selfie with a deer, bahahahaha…..<br />
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Ummmmm, this little fellow nearly ate my scarf<br />
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So finally I asked Sandra to take a photo with me and a deer<br />
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How cute does this little guy look under the Sakura blooms<br />
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So this guy (most people) purchased bags of deer crackers, we did NOT buy any crackers after seeing so many people being harassed by the deer if you have crackers, they can smell them from a long way and won't leave you alone if you have them. They could still smell them on him and wouldn't leave him alone...….. I saw a few people just throw the crackers on the ground and run..... hahahah They can be a little vicious so you have to be very careful, I witnessed one lady was feeding about 5 deer and she used all the crackers, she turned her back on them and one little guy bit her on the butt, she wasn't happy, it must have hurt, so my tip here is DON'T feed the deer and if you do, don't turn your back on them. Another tip, the deer will eat anything, for example, maps, clothing, anything so ensure to have all your belongings inside a zipped bag....<br />
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This is Todai-ji Temple<br />
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These are the BIG gates you walk through before reaching the shrine<br />
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This stone monument is saying about the World Heritage Listed Todai - ji Shrine which was put in place in 1948.<br />
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A lovely lake near the Shrine<br />
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A few more deer photos, they roam the streets as well around the park and you have to respect them as they are protected.<br />
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All these people are waiting in line outside a restaurant waiting for a seat to become available for lunch<br />
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Two little cuties<br />
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Little buggies you can hire people to ride you around<br />
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More deer, note all the cute little cars parked in the background<br />
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These cute little buses take you from the station to the deer park<br />
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Another line up of people waiting at another restaurant, all the restaurants are tiny and only have small eating areas. The restaurant is the white building with the dark roof and red umbrellas behind<br />
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There were dozens of tourist buses<br />
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This sign on the back of a toilet door at Nara Park gave me a laugh with the English translation, "Please do not FLASH"...…. hahahahaha<br />
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After our BIG day walking around for hours we enjoyed a lovely fresh salad roll, pastry and a hot coffee at a French Patissiere café at the train station waiting for our train to take us back to Osaka. </div>
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Now back at Osaka train station, on our way to catch the loop train back to Temma station, this was the first time for us to see escalators like this, there are 3 sections to them, first going down,<br />
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Walking from Temma station back to our Hotel are several of these man hole covers in the road with Osaka Castle on them, they are very pretty.<br />
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So that's our day at Nara Park, until next time, Sayonara...…….<br />
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Day 10 - Saturday 7th April, 2018<br />
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We arrived at Kanazawa train station at 9.30am for our departure at 9.54am, trains in Japan run on time 99% of the time so it's best to be there early. After we boarded the train and were settled, an elderly Japanese man boarded wearing a suit and had 4 security guys accompany him on the train however only one travelled with him. He must have been quite important as the guy sitting behind him on the train followed him when he went to the toilet and was wearing an earpiece like the FBI do when following the American President. They got off at Shin Osaka station and there were another 2 guys waiting on the platform when they got off the train.<br />
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Our train approaching Kanazawa station<br />
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A quick photo before boarding our train<br />
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As we were stopping at a town on our way to Osaka we were this VERY BIG statue, she was just <br />
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A couple of scenery photos from the train<br />
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The view outside our hotel room in Osaka, in most cases I booked hotels close to train stations, in Osaka we were about a 10 minute walk from the Temma loop line station.<br />
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So we're only up to day 10 and wheeling our suitcases around managed to damage the wheels on my suitcase which I didn't notice till we were pushing/pulling them along the tiny, tiny streets/laneways to our hotel in Osaka and I noticed the suitcase wouldn't push, then I looked down and one wheel was quite damaged so it was quite difficult and a little further down the road another one broke. So firstly we arrived at Osaka train station, Shinkansen tracks and then had to negotiate our way to the loop line platforms to catch a train to Temma station, only 3 stops from Osaka station. It wouldn't have been so bad if they were both on the side but one was the front and one was the back so I was in all kinds of stress trying to pull my suitcase down the road. We had finally gotten to the main road and we were going to wait to see if a cab came by as we had 3 blocks to walk to get to the hotel. Suddenly a lovely little lady came across the crossing with a flat bed trolley (they are used a lot in Japan), she didn't speak much English but she could see my suitcase was broken and asked where we were headed (sort of) I pointed down the road saying to the APA Hotel. She bundled my suitcase onto her trolley and took it to the Hotel reception for me. I was so grateful and couldn't believe our luck that she came along at that particular moment. I think I had a guardian Angel looking out for me.<br />
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By this time it was 1.30pm and we had to wait till 2pm to go to our room so we sat in the lobby and had a rest. I asked the reception staff about somewhere to buy a new suitcase, an expense I didn't expect on my first overseas trip..... It turned out just behind the Temma railway station is the Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Arcade which is 2klms long, so after checking into the hotel we went for a stroll down part of the Arcade and I found a suitcase which was J.Y16,800, quite expensive, I talked her down to J.Y16,000. <br />
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Our walk to and from the Hotel we passed the Asahi Brewery.<br />
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It was quite cold so we stopped at MACCAS near the train station for dinner then headed back to the Hotel for a nice warm shower before settling in for the night.<br />
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Day trip to Kurashiki which took 2 hours by train, we arrived at Kurashiki station around midday, it was bitterly cold so we stopped at Starbucks to have a coffee and roll before walking around Kurashiki.<br />
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A photo of the front of the Kurashiki train station, taken near Starbucks<br />
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Photo of one of the rail staff, they all dress very dapper with their white gloves and hats<br />
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These are on the streets and at the rail stations all over Japan, I believe these had a lot to do with wrecking the wheels on my suitcase as they are difficult to get your suitcase over them. Are you wondering what they're for? I was complaining to an ex work colleague in Nagasaki about them and he informed me they are for the blind... The ones with the lines are for straight ahead and the dots are for corners.<br />
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Our coffee and Ham & cheese roll at Starbucks<br />
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We were walking along the street where there is an area with about 4 street which are full of eating places, drinking places and shops for souvenirs etc. A little old lady grabbed my arm and was talking Japanese, of course....... and took me to this little hall where there were dozens of little children being dressed in these ornate outfits by their parents..... Then she grabbed my arm again, all the time talking, I couldn't understand a word she was saying........ she led us to behind this shrine....<br />
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We saw lots of children in these gorgeous little outfits holding flowers, many adults taking photos so I had to squeeze in to take some photos, hahaha....... and sitting down was a Buddhist monk dressed in white with a purple robe and a Gold hat, can you see him? <br />
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So after our long journey through Japan, the day before I we came home I met with an ex Manager of Marubeni and I was showing him photos of my trip and he said was this on the 8th of April, I said yes, he said this is a flower festival for children and how lucky we were to come across this, he us now 70 years old and said he did this as a little boy and remembers it well. <br />
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This is a different Monk walking from the shrine<br />
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We then proceeded down the streets, this little man was grinding coffee beans and posed for a photo for us, hahaha........<br />
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Me, outside a Masking tape/washi tape shop, that's all they sold, there were literally hundreds of different ones, it was a difficult choice what to buy.</div>
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A little shrine<br />
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A beautiful big vase<br />
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Same shop, taken from a distance<br />
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More shops, it was a busy Sunday<br />
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These rickshaw drivers were everywhere, no we didn't...............<br />
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The masking tape shop<br />
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See what I mean about the tiny narrow streets, that's why they have small cars, plus the streets are for pedestrains.<br />
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A Wedding, she would have been freezing, it was a cold day<br />
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Me rugged up with my coat and scarf<br />
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Sandra<br />
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Enjoying a boat ride<br />
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On the train trip back to Osaka I saw this lady in her Kimono waiting at a train station<br />
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These little enclosed rooms with seats are at most train station platforms, to keep out of the cold<br />
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My new suitcase<br />
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Enjoying a couple of whiskey and cokes before bed, I prefer to drink whiskey with ginger ale or<br />
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KANAZAWA - after returning from the Ryokan we checked into our hotel, this was our room, the beds were so comfortable and a good size. Our Hotel was a 2 minute walk to Kanazawa train station, so convenient and handy.</div>
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We then went to the Tourist information counter at Kanazawa station and spoke to English speaking ladies to find out about using our JR pass on the free loop bus for sightseeing around the city. We caught the bus to the Higashi Chaya district to look at all the old tea houses and glorious Sakura blooms along the river. </div>
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Some of the tea houses<br />
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A very pretty Pink Sakura tree<br />
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Look at these gorgeous trees along the bank of the river<br />
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This is taken from the bridge on the opposite side of the river<br />
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I'm admiring the gorgeous blooms </div>
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The bridge across the river is a walk bridge and a vehicle bridge<br />
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Some more tea houses<br />
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I just love the dark pink blooms<br />
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After our few hours of walking we caught the bus back to the train station and went to a lovely bakery and enjoyed a coffee and bun before going back to the hotel</div>
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Day 8 - Thursday 5th April, 2018</div>
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Day trip to TAKAYAMA - we caught 2 trains taking 2 hours in total, the scenery was so lovely as we headed up and up into the mountains.</div>
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A couple of photos of the streams along the way<br />
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As we headed up into the mountains we saw quite a bit of snow still on the mountains from winter.<br />
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A cemetery, these are dotted in small clumps like this everywhere<br />
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We found an amazing shop that sold Ice creams and filled crepes, there were so many to choose from <span style="color: #000120;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #000032;"> We both had the caramel popcorn ice cream, it was really delicious.</span><br />
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I asked this young couple could I take their photo, they were having the crepes filled with delicious goodness, yummmmmm........<br />
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We came across this small temple on our walk around Takayama<br />
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A restaurant<br />
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An antique/second hand shop, inside was tiny and had lots of stuff, it was quite difficult to walk around in there </div>
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Sake barrels outside a shop<br />
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A museum, we weren't allowed to take photos inside<br />
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A shop<br />
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Outside a restaurant<br />
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Little postal vans, all the cars are like this, they are so cute. They need to be tiny, the streets are so narrow......<br />
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These two photos are of items inside the rail station at Takayama<br />
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A little boy having Maccas with his Dad<br />
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Our Maccas late lunch waiting for the train for our return trip to Kanazawa<br />
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Day 9 - Friday 6th April, 2018<br />
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KANAZAWA - Our hearty breakfast before our big day of sightseeing.<br />
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Some Wedding photos at Kanazawa Castle<br />
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Kanazawa Castle is truly a glorious sight, you can only walk around the grounds and tale photos, you can't enter the castle.</div>
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Some ducks swimming in the moat amongst the fallen Sakura blooms<br />
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Japanese ladies in Kimonos<br />
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It was sprinkling a little<br />
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Statues of Japanese Gentlemen at Kenrokuen<br />
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Walking through Omicho markets<br />
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Lots of oysters<br />
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This large structure is outside the Kanazawa train station<br />
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Outside the train station<br />
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Outside the train station<br />
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The view outside our Hotel room at night<br />
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Both Sandra and I loved Kanazawa, it was a gorgeous city and runs at a nice slow pace.</div>
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Kayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-41855250453113205032018-07-11T17:49:00.001+10:002018-07-11T17:49:15.102+10:00JAPAN 2018 - PART 4Day 5 - Monday 2nd April, 2018<br />
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We were met at our Hotel in Tokyo by an ex work colleague and walked a few blocks to see where Marubeni office used to be, I took a photo of the street sign, the second photo is better showing "you are here" and below to the right you will see "Marubeni Tokyo Head Office". Marubeni is one of the BIG 5 trading companies in Japan. They have the quintessential position overlooking the Imperial Palace Grounds,. However at this time I could only see construction as the building was pulled down last year and they constructing a new building however things are rather slow as the Olympics of 2020 is taking precedence. <br />
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Then we took the subway to their current location in another building in Tokyo. It is high security, We had to get permission and a tag to enter the building, my ex work colleague is on the right at the reception desk.<br />
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This gorgeous display was in the foyer, just glorious with the beautiful Sakura tree blooms.<br />
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I met with some ex work colleagues that I work with in Brisbane office and some I was meeting for the first time in person although had talked to them on the phoned and emailed them constantly regarding work. The ladies were thrilled with their gifts I made for them.<br />
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Then one of my ex Brisbane Managing Directors took us to lunch with 3 other ex Brisbane Coal guys as well. We went to a gorgeous famous expensive restaurant in Ginza only a few blocks away from the office. I was totally spoilt on this trip. They all kept telling me how lucky we were to be able to have planned the trip so far in advance and to see the Sakura trees in full bloom.<br />
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Lovely cold Asahi beer as it was quite a hot day.<br />
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After lunch we headed back to the Hotel for a rest as we were then collected from the Hotel again at 5.30pm by another ex Manager from 20 years ago, we caught a cab to look at the Night time viewing of the Sakura flowers, it's a huge event, there were hundreds of people there.</div>
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This photo is of Sandra, myself and Mr. Nakao<br />
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I took many photos of the Sakura blooms, here are a few.<br />
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The tiny boats as couples row them up and down the moat around the Imperial Palace.<br />
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Then we caught another cab to Akasaka and were taken to dinner to a famous little Teppanyaki Restaurant where Mr. Nakao is quite famous, apparently he's been going into that area for around 40 years or more.<br />
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We had a bottle of this absolutely delicious Shiraz from Australia, I took a photo as I would like to try and locate it here, so far no luck though.</div>
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Then afterwards we were taken to a tiny coffee house, down a tiny alley, down a tiny set of steps.<br />
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Phew, what a day, we were treated like royalty, it was a day and night I will remember for a very long time.<br />
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Day 6 - Tuesday 3rd April, 2018<br />
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We were up early as we were catching a Shinkansen over to Kanazawa. After breakfast I walked down a couple of blocks to a Post Office to purchase some stamps and post some postcards home to Australia. Then we caught a cab to the Tokyo train station and waited an hour for our train to arrive.<br />
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Lovely clean luxurious Green car (executive class) carriage. So comfortable, the seats tilt back and they also have a foot rest. As soon as the train is under way a young lady comes around dressed in a very smart uniform handing out hand towels.<br />
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Arriving at Kanazawa station<br />
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This is a photo outside of the station and some of the cabs waiting for a fare<br />
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A photo of one of the Shinkansen's<br />
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We were waiting to be collected in a mini bus as we were heading into the mountains about 30 mins drive away to a Ryokan for one night. We were greeted with a hot towel, some sweets and a bowl of warm Matcha.<br />
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After we checked in we were shown to our room, we were in the Kotyo room on the 4th floor, it was a tiny place with 12 rooms in total.<br />
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After we had our Onsen we relaxed with a couple of drinks and some nibbles.<br />
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We went outside and enjoyed the lovely view as the sun was setting<br />
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We then went to dinner which was a small room where we sat on the floor which was comfortable as we had somewhere for our legs and a back rest as well.<br />
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A few photos of some of the dinner courses<br />
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We met a couple of lovely ladies, the younger one next to me is Fumi and her Mama (in Western clothes), Fumi spoke quite good English and we all had dinner together and also Breakfast the next morning,. I'm so glad meeting with Fumi as the staff didn't speak any English. She advised the staff we would like a Western style breakfast the next morning which I didn't know was available as I though it was all traditional Japanese food. Fumi and I are now friends on FB. <br />
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Upon arriving back to our room after dinner we found our beds made up on the Tatami mats which had a table and chairs there prior going to dinner. They were surprisingly comfortable.<br />
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Our Western breakfast the following morning, uncooked omelette, the Japanese tend to eat a lot of uncooked eggs, not my style at all, I had a little bit but couldn't finish it. I did however eat the bread rolls.<br />
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I ate the Pumpkin Soup, sausages and bacon<br />
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I ate this delicious pot set yogurt which apparently they make on site<br />
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This was our Ryokan, I said before it had 4 floors however it only had 3 floors with 4 rooms on which floor, In Japan what we called ground floor they call 1F (first floor)<br />
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This was a really wonderful experience and we only did it for one night as it's very expensive.<br />
Even though we stayed in the same room, the rate is "per person".<br />
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So till the next part. Bye for now.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Kaylee<br />
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We met with Aya (Mr. O'hira's daughter) at our hotel and she took us to Ginza (for those who don't know, Ginza is a famous expensive area in Tokyo). <br />
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The next four photos are buildings on the four corners of Ginza's famous cross section.<br />
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This building is a very expensive department store in Ginza. We walked around the 3 levels, they sell Jewellery, clothes, shoes, handbags and accessories.<br />
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Aya had arranged for us to wear a Kimono around Ginza and also experience a tea ceremony in Ginza. <br />
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Aya had the camera took photos of us as we walked from the Kimono hire shop to the tea ceremony. We felt like celebrities walking around Ginza, the locals were taking our photo, telling us we looked beautiful and give us the thumbs up etc........ LOL<br />
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Outside a Kabuki House in Ginza<br />
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Cleansing hands before the tea ceremony</div>
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The lady in the Blue conducted the tea ceremony, it's very technical. This is something I've always wanted to experience.</div>
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The tea ceremony is conducted in a tiny room and we were in there for an hour, can you see my red face..... the doors are closed and no windows. The Kimonos are heavy to wear and quite hot as well, there was 10 of us in the tiny room which included 1 male. It is about 3mtres squares and not very high, I could stand up in there but not much more room. Also you have to climb in through a tiny door, the floor is Tatami mats so you were socks in there. Aya didn't wear a Kimono as the experience was for us, she owns a lot of Kimonos and wears them around her home. She has also taken lessons in the tea ceremony and was explaining to us everything in detail during the ceremony.<br />
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I was so happy to have finally been able to come out of the room<br />
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Ahhhhhh the relief of being able to come out of the tea ceremony room, we had to crawl out, it was most difficult. The whole time in the room we were kneeling and sitting back on our legs, NOT enjoyable at all.</div>
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Some of the famous buildings in Ginza</div>
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After changing into our Western clothes we headed to Meiji Shrine, AKA Meiji Jingu (very famous) near Harajuku Station. Before entering and going through the Torii gate you stop, put your hands together and bow to the Gods.<br />
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LOTS of barrels of Sake<br />
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LOTS Barrels of wine<br />
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Making our wish to the Gods at the Shrine</div>
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We were extremely lucky to see a married couple in traditional dress at the Shrine<br />
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The young married couple were getting into this car to take them to the after party celebrations.<br />
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After walking through the Shrine area we walked through Harajuku area and then caught a train to Shinjuku and went to the Belgium café for dinner. We enjoyed a nice cold beer before dinner.<br />
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Most eating places in Japan you don't order "a meal" for yourself, we had a bowl of salad, chicken pieces and a pizza to share between the 3 of us for dinner.<br />
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It was after 8pm by the time we arrived back at our Hotel, we were quite exhausted after our big day full of a lot of new experiences. <br />
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Cheers<br />
Kaylee<br />
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Day 3 - Saturday 31st March, 2018</div>
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After breakfast we walked to the train station (less than a 5 minute walk from our Hotel) and caught 2 trains from Kashiwa-no-ha station to Yachiyodai station, both are in the Chiba prefecture although it took 1 hour by train. The General Manager of our office in the mid 1980's lives there with his wife and we went to visit them for the day. I last saw them back in 2011 in Brisbane for a couple of hours, previously to that I last saw them back in 1988 when I left Marubeni pregnant with Kate. Mrs. O'hira bought these delicious sweets for us to have for morning tea at a nearby French Patisserie. They were just devine......</div>
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Then Mr. and Mrs. O'hira took us out to lunch at a nearby shopping centre to a cute little place for lunch., Here is a photo of me with Mr. O'hira outside the restaurant.<br />
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Mr. and Mrs. O'hira<br />
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Lunch, Tempura Pork cutlet and a prawn Tempura with pickled vegetables, also rice and Miso soup. It was really delicious.<br />
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We then went for a little drive in their cute little car to see Sakura Blooms.<br />
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This is called "The New River" at Yachio in Chiba, the Sakura trees lined both sides of the river, they truly were a sight to behold.<br />
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Walking the path along the river I took many photos<br />
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During the Spring time with the Sakura blooming families take full advantage and picnic under the trees all weekend. It's just so lovely to see many people out enjoying themselves and the children running around having so much fun. In a country where the majority of people live in apartments and are confined all week, it was such a joy to see these sights in our travels everywhere we saw the Sakura blooms.<br />
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On a walk bridge crossing the New River<br />
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I took quite a few photos of the glorious trees driving along in the car, the day was warm so we had the windows 1/2 down in the car, it was also a little windy and the petals of the flowers were falling off the trees and into the windows and although I haven't seen snow (yet) in my life, it gave me the feeling of snow falling, it truly was magical.<br />
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Mrs. O'hira gave us all of these delicious goodies to take with us, can you see in the foreground some mandarins and yuzu fruits ! Mr. O'hira does some communal farming about 40 minutes drive from their house and he tends to the gardening every other day of the week. He will be turning 80 on 1st August this year and is very active. We enjoyed most of these in Japan including the Sake. I bought home the packets of rice which I am still to use.<br />
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<span style="color: #000032;">Mrs. O'hira also gave each of us the following in a lovely carry bag. The Meiji chocolate was very delicious, it was a dark chocolate. The wrapped item on the right next to the chocolate is some Green tea.</span><br />
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Wait till you see what was in this lovely box<br />
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I unpacked it last Sunday and put it on my coffee table in the lounge room (my display room which is never used). LOL....... The most beautiful silk and gold thread table runner and 2 coasters, made in Kyoto. They came with a little pamphlet which included their web site so I checked it out and these items are a lot more expensive than I imagined. We were very spoilt, especially Sandra as she didn't even know Mr. and Mrs. O'hira,. They are such wonderful kind people.<br />
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I arranged my Japanese items on the coffee table which were previously displayed on my China cabinet. The big Japanese doll in the case I received from work 2 years ago when I left, she is truly gorgeous. Doesn't it looking stunning, I just love it, I now feel it completes the space.<br />
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I also wanted to add day 4 of my travels to this post however I think this is enough for now.<br />
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KayleeKayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-57086563727551160162018-05-27T13:40:00.001+10:002018-05-27T13:42:36.991+10:00JAPAN 2018 - PART 1As my regular BLOG readers know I went to Japan in March/April and I would like to document it for myself on my Blog so there will be lots of photos, I hope you enjoy them and I take you on my journey with these photos. My travel companion Sandra is my Aunty In Law whom I've known for 40 years.<br />
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I departed from Coolangatta airport AKA Gold Coast airport on Wednesday 28th March, 2018 at 10.45am and arrived at Narita airport (Tokyo) at 6.30pm, about 25 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. It was a great flight, I didn't know what to expect as it was my first International flight.<br />
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We were being met by my dear friend's husband, Hiro. He was going to be at arrivals to collect us at 7pm. We flew Jetstar and arrived at Terminal 3 at Narita airport, good grief, we had to walk down steps off the plane, then up steps to get to Immigration, we were quite exhausted after doing all this with our not so light carry on luggage. Our first stop was the toilet and after doing so and lining up we were the last to get through Immigration, then we had to walk down more stairs to wait for our checked in luggage then go through customs. After all this time I was worried Hiro would be waiting for us outside but no he was running late and I had no way of communicating with him. Eventually we found each other, mind you it had been 7 years since I had seen him and I had only met him 3 times ever. So can you imagine my panic being in Japan with a LOT of Japanese around and me looking for Hiro. I was starting to panic but then I saw him and we recognised each other at the same time which was so great. There is no parking at terminal 3 so we had to catch a bus with all our luggage to terminal 2 and then get to the parking area and put our luggage in the car and then back to Terminal 2 to have our Japan Rail Pass certificate exchanged for our Japan Rail Pass. Then we had over an hours drive to our Hotel at Kashiwa-no-ha in Chiba which is close to where Marina and Hiro live and we were staying for our first 4 nights. We were quite hungry as we didn't have dinner on the plane and it was an hour later Australian time. On the way to the Hotel Hiro stopped at a 7 Eleven so we could get something to eat. If you haven't been to Japan the 7 Eleven's, Lawson's, Family Marts etc are the places for groceries, snacks, coffee etc. They are literally everywhere, even several in one street. Our first glimpse of a Sakura in Bloom (Cherry Blossom tree) was in the car driving to the Hotel. It's not a great photo, but it was night and I took it from the car.<br />
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We arrived at the Hotel around 10pm local time and after 11pm by the time we got to bed after checking in and unpacking a few things.<br />
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Day 1 - Thursday 29th March, 2018<br />
Outside our Hotel, Mitsui Gardens Hotel.<br />
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I only got about an hours sleep, I was so excited that I was finally in Japan and Sandra snores BAD, oh gosh I have another 34 nights of this. I finally got up at 5.50am, showered, dressed and down to brekkie at 6.45am. We met with Marina, Hiro and their two gorgeous kiddos, Hibiki and Haruma at the Kashiwa-no-ha train station for our first day of sightseeing at Asakusa (the locals pronounce this as Asuksa). We went to the Tokyo Skytree, then to Sensouji Temple, Kaminarimon. We strolled through Nakamisi Dori (a long shopping street). We saw many girls dressed in Kiminos, the crowds of people were unbelievable as the Sakura Blooms were magnificent. <br />
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Day 2 - Friday 30 March, 2018<br />
Having breakfast and watching people go about their daily lives, no matter where you are in the world, everyone rushes to catch transport to work.<br />
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Waiting to be picked up by Marina and Hiro to head to Hakone for the day. It was very cold and windy this particular day, that's why I have my coat and scarf on....<br />
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Behind me can you see the sign "La La Port", it's a shopping centre 5 levels.<br />
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Some photos on our car trip to Hakone, 2 hours drive away.<br />
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We had lunch at this little restaurant, it's famous for soba noodles, we waited for 30 minutes for a seat. We came across this everywhere in Japan as 98% of eating places are very small. Outside of the restaurant is a stand with sheets of ruled paper and a pen and you write your name and how many people then you wait to be called.</div>
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Our Lunch - Soba noodles and Tempura prawns and vegetables, absolutely delicious<br />
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A photo inside the restaurant<br />
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My first time to see and touch snow, LOL I look a little excited. Actually it was a clump of ice, the last of the snow for the season, we saw quite a bit like this around Hakone. It was a very cold day too.<br />
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<br />Kayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-36284468463299931032018-05-15T12:23:00.001+10:002018-05-15T12:34:26.789+10:00KATE'S 30TH BIRTHDAY QUILT and PARTYHello ladies, I 'm baaaaack from my 5 week trip to Japan, I arrived home 2 weeks ago today. I promise I will do multiple blog posts about my travels soon. However on the 24th March 2018, 4 days before I departed Australia for my "trip of a lifetime" we celebrated our eldest daughter, Kate's 30th Birthday. I can still remember being pregnant over 30 years ago with my first born, the years now seem to have flown by. I made both my girls a memory quilt for each of their 21st Birthdays and they don't use them, they were meant to be used but neither of them want to. I decided to make Kate a quilt for her 30th Birthday, something she will feel comfortable using, for several years now I have had a layer cake and a charm pack of "Miss Kate" by Bonnie & Camille in my stash waiting to make a quilt for Kate when I felt the time was right. So I set my plan in motion last December and decided that her 30th Birthday would be perfect for this quilt. Initially I was going to make a "present" block quilt and changed my mind and decided to go with a "quart jar" and "pint jar" combined block quilt. I love the tutorials by Jenny of Missouri Star Quilt Company. So last December I cut out all of the fabric and started sewing the blocks together in late January. I had also made the decision to have it professionally quilted and it came out beautifully, I am happy I went with that decision.<br />
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This photo is after it came back from the quilters and ready for me to hand stitch the binding.<br />
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A close up of the quilting<br />
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Completed quilt with the binding<br />
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I hand embroidered the label for the quilt, I have always sewn the labels at the bottom of quilts I make however this time I put it at the top in the middle (on back of quilt) so when Kate is cuddled up with it the label is close to her heart.<br />
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Kate loves her quilt I made with so much love and joy with each stich I made<br />
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Kate and I at the restaurant<br />
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Kate with Mum & Dad<br />
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Kate and Grandma (my Mum)<br />
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Kate & Josh<br />
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My two Gorgeous girls<br />
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With their cousin<br />
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Having a laugh<br />
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We celebrated a wonderful night for Kate's 30th Birthday. There are more big celebrations in store for our family this year, Stephen and I both turn 60this year, we celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary in November this year and my Mum turns 80 in December. <br />
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Kaylee<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">HAPPY TUESDAY LADIES</span></i>Kayleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14230822866065980056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876434475418361665.post-33366153644491644622018-03-27T13:35:00.002+10:002018-03-27T13:36:36.673+10:00JAPAN TRIPI will not be doing any blog posts in April.<br />
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Tomorrow I am heading to Japan and will be back in Australia on Tuesday 1st May. This is my first overseas trip and I'm super excited.<br />
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This is my first attempt at making T-Shirt dresses and I'm very happy with them. I will definitely be making more in the future as I feel confident about cutting off T-Shirts and adding fabric to them.</div>
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Kate and Josh have God Daughters and they are sisters, they both love Frozen, I think all little children do.</div>
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I went into Target and found these lovely Frozen T-Shirts so they were perfect for the fabric I purchased from The Fat Quarter Shop last year.</div>
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This is for Mackenzie, she is 7.</div>
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This one is for her sister Emelia and she is 5.<br />
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I did a machine hem of 1 inch and then I did a hand hem of 2 inches so when they grow their Mum can undo the hand hem and they'll get more wear from them. I will be giving the dresses to Mac and Millie (as their parents call them), next Saturday.<br />
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A friend asked me to make a baby quilt for her first Grandchild, the baby is due in May and the parents have decided not to find out the sex of the baby so the quilt fabric needed to be non gender.<br />
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The completed baby quilt which I finished last month.<br />
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The made the baby quilt early as I also made a 30th Birthday quilt for our daughter Kate and I needed to finished these projects before I travel to Japan on 28th March for 5 weeks.<br />
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Hugs<br />
Kaylee<br />
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Oh gosh this heat we've been having on the East Coast has been terrible. We put the aircon on in the bedroom at night as it's too uncomfortable to sleep. Thank goodness a change came through last night with some rain and the temps today were about 8-10 degrees lower, so much more comfortable to do things around the house plus I did 85 minutes on the treadmill before breakfast this morning.</div>
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These are the last two gifts I'm making to take to Japan with me, two aprons, the lavender one is for a 30 year old. Since taking the photos I have washed the aprons and still need to iron them before gift wrapping them.</div>
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This one is for a 80 year old lady, the wife of one of my ex Managers from the 1980's, she made me the most gorgeous crochet table cloth and food cover when I left work in 1988 to have Kate. I wanted to add something of Australia to the aprons, can you see the Kangaroo fabric on the bottom of each one? I received the fabric from my Australia Day swap. I have also added a crocheted doily to the lavender apron and a tatting doily to the apron below. My grandma made these and they're over 60 years ago. I have a good stash of them and would like to use them in projects so they're not sent to a thrift shop in the future.<br />
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My BFF and I will be turning 60 this year. I have already purchased a gorgeous gift for my BFF and also wanted to make her something which I know she'll love. Two Birthday's ago my Bloggy friend Anthea made me a gorgeous craft carry all bag for my Birthday which I love and use to carry my craft projects in when we travel in the van. My BFF loved the bag when I received it from Anthea so I know she'll love one too. I cut it out on Monday and worked on it over a couple of days and completed it yesterday. I'm really happy with it and quite sure my BFF will love it too. I've added two photos as when I took the photo below it didn't really show the real colours for some reason. The fabric is pink and white check gingham with cupcakes. My BFF doesn't read my BLOG so she won't see this post.<br />
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I took this photo with a flash and I think it shows the colours a little better.<br />
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I had these gorgeous cupcake buttons in my stash and I thought they'd be great on the bag. How cute are they !!!<br />
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We had a quiet one at home ion the aircon so I took the opportunity and stitched my "Love Is" BOM Block 2 completing it. When I took this photo I had the border to finish and I did this last night watching TV. I'm very happy with what I accomplished, now I can start on Block 3.</div>
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Do you have any Australia Day traditions? Mine is to make Damper and we gobble it all up while it is still warm. This is a photo of my damper straight from the oven.<br />
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We enjoyed it with Apricot conserve and a lovely home made flat white using my Jura coffee machine. Very delicious. <br />
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Today, 27th January is my Dad's Birthday, he would have turned 85 today, this photo was taken of him on his 81st Birthday. The good Lord took him in May of the same year. <br />
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The second year running Anthea at <a href="https://hibiscus-stitches.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Hibiscus Stitches</a> has organised an Australia Day swap, it was so much fun last year, for me it was a no brainer to join again this year. Thank you so much Anthea.</div>
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These are the gorgeous gifts I received this year and my gifts came from Susan over at <a href="http://susans-sewing-space.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Susan's Sewing Space </a></div>
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The most gorgeous handmade card, lovely Australian fabric, a gorgeous Tilda pin cushion with a cute little pair of scissors, lovely lace, Ice cube tray with Australian shapes and a very handy shopping list pad. I love it all thank you so much Susan.</div>
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A closer look at the Tilda pin cushion<br />
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A closer look at the lovely fabric with Kangaroos<br />
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I received a lovely email from Lyn saying she loved all of her swap items.</div>
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A closer look at the buttons and beads<br />
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A closer look at the doily<br />
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Happy Monday everyone, it's now 72 days till I depart Australia for my long awaited trip to Japan.</div>
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Last week I made more gifts to take with me, I found this scrap piece of fabric in my stash which had been given to me in a bulk lot of fabric when a friends Mother passed away. It was left overs from a dress made from this fabric so I cut it down into rectangles and came up with the four pieces to make these four zippered pouches. I looked through my stash of zips to coordinate with the fabric and ended up with the 2 black, 1 white and 1 bright pink which really pops, I was wishing I had more pink zips in my stash. I also attached the lace which I think really sets them off nicely. I only use this gorgeous lace on special items. My gift giving box is now quite full, however I am going to make 2 aprons as well. One for an ex Manager's wife, she is in her 80's and I think an apron would be more useful for her rather than a zippered pouch or a Lingerie bag. The other is for my ex "work colleague" who now lives in Tokyo and will be our tour guide for a few days on our trip.</div>
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Thank you Lord for a more pleasant day today, we have a slight breeze and the temp is much lower today. WOW since Friday and over the weekend it was very hot in our part of Australia, we put our aircon on Friday night and it was on non-stop till 2.30pm yesterday afternoon when the change came through bringing gusty winds and sure cooled things down. Saturday I spent all day in the bedroom stitching my second block of the "Love Is" BOM by Rosalie Quinlan. I was most happy what I had achieve by the days end (this is an early morning photo), it's further along than shown in this photo.</div>
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My Aunty-in-Law and travelling companion to Japan in March/April gave me a Travel Diary/Journal for my Birthday last year. Yesterday I made a fabric cover for it. I chose this lovely Japanese fabric I had in my stash. I also want to make a zippered pouch to put it in to which I can add maps and paperwork.</div>
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 to all of my bloggy friends, we went out earlier in the day and home by 9pm, then spent a quiet evening at home watching movies went to bed around 1.45am EST. I'm looking forward to 2018 and all the joys it will bring. Wishing you all a healthy and exciting 2018.</div>
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My first sewing finishes for 2018 are 3 more shoe bags to take to Japan in March/April, for those of you who don't know much about the Japanese culture they are very big on gift giving. I have had this lovely old world shoe fabric in my stash for quite a few years and last year I made 6 bags from the fabric and I had a small portion remaining which wasn't enough to make even 1 bag so decided to use it as a portion on the front of 3 bags and used a plain cream fabric for 1/2 of the front and all of the back. <br />
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Yesterday I made up these 6 handbag size tissue covers with gorgeous Australian fabric I received from Sue of<a href="http://kiwikidspage.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"> Kiwikids page</a> in an Australian Day swap organised by the lovely Anthea over at <a href="https://hibiscus-stitches.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Hibiscus Stitches</a>. It is perfect for this project and to give to non Australians as a gift. Anthea is having the swap again this year, it was so fun last year of course I'm participating again this year. I'm sure the cut off was last Friday 5th January however if you get in quickly Anthea may let you join in too.<br />
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