The Sato-Veillon Family

Visited Oba-chan (Rika`s Grandmother, or actually, her grave) in the morning.

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We had a Japanese soba lunch in Kannai area since we were going to visit Yokohama City Hall.

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Cosmo World in Minato Mirai.
The last 8 pictures were taken from the giant ferris wheel, which until the one in London was built, was the tallest in the world.  The one in London is a mere 1 foot taller.  But after that, the taller one (than London) has been built in Tokyo Odaiba, and now it’s the tallest in the world. LOL. The battle continues…

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Dinner at the Pier
The first pic is inside the old port warehouse “Akarenga“, which is 150 years old, and was converted into shopping and dining.  The 12th pic is of the outside.
The sand you see was brought in from Australia for the summer festival.
I had a Hawaiian burger and Rika had a Japanese “Omuraisu” (rice omelet) – both very delicious!
Finally, the sunset over the pier area.

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YouTube seems to be fairly inconsistent when it comes to their support of the AVCHD video format. It WAS working, but all the videos we uploaded (over 30) came out messed up. So, I`m removing them for now, and will encode them into flash video when I get back to the states (no computers powerful enough here). Sorry, but you`ll have wait. :-/

OK, I’m slowly putting videos up.  YouTube hasn’t fixed the issue yet, so i’m using MotionBox.  They don’t allow HD content unless you pay for the premium service, so you’ll only see “decent” quality videos for now.  When YouTube fixes their issues I’ll swap the videos out to bring you HD content.

2nd visit to Ramen Museum - Shin (new) Yokohama with Amelie. This time, as it’s advertised, we got in for free because we wore Yukata. Since we can only eat the ramen from 2 shops (they won’t let you share one ramen instead you can order the half size) we needed to pick raman shops carefully. Our choice was kind of poor this time. Oh well.

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We went to Inase sushi with Jiji and Baba. 

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“Semi“!  Typical kinds that you normally hear around my house are “Tsuku Tsuku Boshi (by clicking you can hear their sound)” and ”Higurashi.” However, if you are in Japan in summer, you’ll hear this really loud “Min Min Zemi” orchestra almost everywhere you go as long as there are trees. Also in this video, you hear the black crows. This is what we heard almost everyday while we were in Japan. The black crows in Japan is slightly bigger than ones in the US and they are very talkative. When Amelie and mama were taking a bath, we heard the voice outside of the window and we totally thought that is a human voice but it was actually the black crow talking. LOL

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Yokohama Akarenga and Osanbashi with Jiji and Baba.

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After we walked and walked to find the restaurant that is open on Monday, we finally found this place and ate some Yakitori. Amelie, of course, had a Natto. We also stopped by this donuts store “Hara Donuts” where they serve donuts made from Tofu and tried some of those.

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