They came from Denmark and stayed at Sakuraya for 4 nights.
Before coming to Shimoda they went to Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, and many places in Japan, and they stayed in Shimoda as the last place in Japn.
During their stay it had been sunny and they spent all day on the beach everyday.
Actually she is now expected and will have a new family in November.
Please take care of yourself.
Thank you very much for staying with us.
I went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" this early morning.
We had a mission of beach cleaning from 6:00 this morning.
And I went to the beach with my son again to take pictures.
It was beautiful day and very hot in Shimoda today.
Click here to see the album of beach cleaning and Shirahama beach under the sun.
They came to Japan from Switzerland, and stayed for 3 nights at our Pension.
It had been almost sunny during their stay.
They went to Shimoda downtown on the 2nd day, and spent all day on the nearest beach "Shirahama" on the 3rd day.
She is expected and they will have a new family in August.
We hope you will have a bouncing baby!!
Thank you for staying with us.
I could see the beautiful scenery of the Izu Oshima island on the pacific ocean from the top of mountain behind Sakuraya.
There are some Sakura trees in our field, and they are almost fully blooming at last.
This season it has been very cold here in Izu Peninsula since the end of last year, so it is later to bloom than usual.
But the Sakura trees in our garden get a lot of sunshine, and the sun make them to bloom faster than the others.
The other Kawazu Sakura trees In Kawazu town and Minami-Izu town blooms after a delay of 2 or 3 weeks.
In these days it has been very cold in Japan.
The weather forecast says in this winter they have a lot of snow in the Japan sea area, Tohoku and Hokkaido twice or three times as much as usual.
We had strong west wind here in Shimoda, but we could see the Izu seven islands clearly.
There were 2 ships came to Shirahama to protect themselves from the strong wind.
On every Sunday morning Kamen Rider "Fourze" is televised from 8:00 AM.
My son, Yuuki usually doesn't wake up early on weekdays, but he wakes up by himself on only Sunday morning.
Kamen Rider Fourze is a new hero on TV started from the beginnning of this month.
This hero can wear various weapons or tools by using switches on his belt.
This afternoon Yuuki was making somethings in his room and came to the kitchen to show them.
Yes, he made 3 switches with toy, legos, by himself.
He loves Kamen Rider!!!
Website: Kamen Ride Fourze (only Japanese: Try to put on the switches on this site.)
We had a heavy rain and a strong wind this morning, but the weather was changed at around noon.
When I went to Shimoda down town to pick up my daughter I took this photo on the way to the beach.
There used be a big building over there, so we couldn't see the ocean from this place.
But now we have a great view of the white sand and the blue sea….
Last night, when I was looking for the datas in my computer I found out this picture.
They are my daughters.
I took this when they were taking a bath in 2002, so they were 7 and 4 years old.
They were very cute in those days and it is sweet memories for my wife and me.
But, of course they are now very cute for us!
2 years ago it was a 20th anniversary for our Pension Sakuray, and then we started to present our guest postcard as a gift.
Our guests were pleased with these postcards and everyone praised these photos which I took in Shirahama.
So last year we conteniued to do it after we changed some of them.
And this year it became 22nd anniversary…..