This afternoon I went to Shirahama shrine with my family.
It was a first vist of this year for us.
We, Japanese visit shrine at the beginning of new year to pray our health and happiness.
As we are in the new year holiday there were a lot of people there.
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Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
"Happy New Year!"
Last year we had a lot of problems afte the earthquake and the nuclear accident.
But I appriciate very mush we can greet the new year with my family.
May this new year turn out to be the happiest and the best for you.
This morning I took my daughter to the school and went to Shimoda downtown after thatn.
When I was driving in downtown I found out the dried fishes out of shop on the road.
I asked him to take pictures, and he told me that he waked up at 2:00 am every day.
"Every day?"
I said and he answered.
"Yes, because I have to start to make dried fishes to provide them to the travellers before noon."
"Really?"……
When I was taking pictures near the beach this morning I foud out my daughter was going to school.
She usually takes bike to go to the high school like this.
It takes about 1 hour, because she walks pushing her bike with her hands when she goes up the hill on the way to Shimoda town.
In addition, as we had strong west wind this morning it was very hard for her, because she had strong head wind from Sotoura beach to the downtown.
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Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today it was sunny again in Shimoda.
We had a little bit wind here in Shirahama but it was warm.
By the way, we had Long distance running competition at Shirahama primary school.
This marathon takes place on every December and a lot of parents and local peole come to school to support and cheer them.
This competition started at 9:20 AM…..
On last Thursday and Friday we had strong wind and heavy rain like storm here in Shimoda.
But today it was beautiful and we could see the blue sky and sea after long time.
When I went to Shimoda dowmtown with my son I took some pictures on the beach.
The strong wind brought the sand from the beach to the road like this.
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Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Last week we cleaned the dining room.
After I put the tabels and the chairs out of dining room my son came back from school.
"Wao!"
He was excited and started to run around and jump in this room.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today my daughter had a game of ping pong at junior high school in Minami Izu town, so I took her with my son.
During her games, as we had 3 hours my son and I drove to southern part of Izu peninsula.
We saw the fisherman left for Ise ebi fishing from small fisherman's port.
They put the lobster net in the sea from now and will pull up them at around 4 or 5 AM tomorrow.
The period of lobster fishing is between September and May in Izu peninsula.
After school I went to the beach with my son as usual.
Yesterday we had very strong west wind here in Shimoda.
This morning we still had a little wind, but the wind was stopped after that and the sky was very clear.
We could see the Izu Seven Islands over the ocean.
My son was playing shooting his shoe!
Look at his hand.
There is someting on his parm.
Do you know what this is?
After school I went to pick up my son and went to the beach this late afternoon.
Before getting into the beach my son found out something and start running.
"Look at this, dad!" he said and licked it……