Today Shirahama Beach Walking Guied Part 2 was completed.
In these web pages I was going to use the photos with people or my families, and I was looking for the good photos for each place.
I have a lot of photos which I have been taking in Shirahama since 10 years ago.
I selected some photos for this guide, but actually it seems like my lovely son's photogallary.
Check out Shirahama Beach Walking Guide from Part 1
You can click the links to go to Part 2 down this page.
It was a little cold because of west wind, but good weather for walking.
This afternoon I went to the nearest beach Shirahama with my son.
There is Shirahama shrine on the north part of Shirahama beach, and there is a red gate of shrine called Torii in Japanese on the big rock.
We were able to see Izu seven islands clearly from the tip of this big rock.
I went to the kindergarten to pick my son up by walking this afternoon.
On the way to our home we went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" to play.
Today it was sunny again and the water was blue and gorgeous.
My son was excited with the waves on the beach.
After he will get into the primary school we will not be able to together after school like this.
I think I would be sad…… .
In Japan almost of every students go to primary ( grade ) school carrying this knapsack with back straps.
As he knew that he would go to the primary school on next April he wanted his own knapsack like this.
"When can I buy my knapsack?"
"We will buy it when we will go to Chigasaki city."
As we promised we bought this knapsack at the shop in Chigasaki.
Long time ago we had only 2 types, black one for boys and red one for girls, but they have many kinds of color of this knapsack in these days.
But we were able to make a dicision soon because my son wanted black one.
He looks very happy with his own brand-new knapsack now.
We call this "Randoseru" in Japanese, but how can we call this in English?
Maybe they don't have this bag in the foreign countries, right?
Today, after we finished cleaning up the gurst rooms we went to Shirahama shrine.
Most Japanese visit a shirine or a buddhist temple as a first time of new year to pray for comfort and health on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd January.
This is called "Hatsumode", the first visit shrine of new year.
That's why there were a lot of people at Shirahama shirine today and were some women in Kimono.
After praying we took a photo in fron of Haiden (hall of worship) all together.
It has been sunny and very warm here in Shirahama for 3 days.
Yesterday it was Sunday and my children didn't have a school, so we went to the beach to take photos for New Year Card.
I tried to take it with my 3 children, but my son was in a bad mood when I was taking photos.
And my second daughter became in a same mood. ( A girl in this photo is my first daughter.)
That's why I wasn't able to take good photos after all.
We don't have good days like this so many times in this season, but ….
I didn't think to do it, but as we don't have dinner for our customers today, I went to the beach with my son.
"Let's go to the beach, Yuuki."
"Really? "
My son loves swimming in the sea, but we can't go many times in summer because we are very busy this season.
It was very hot today too.
My son was very excited in the water….
The weather forecast said last night it was very fine day and very hot today in Shimoda.
Today it was a picnic day of kindergarten.
My wife and son went to kindergarten at 9:30 AM, but I left my house after our customers checked out.
When I arrived at the beach the children had just started to play on the water's edge.
Actually I was worried about my son, because he had a cough and runny nose.
But he was unmindful and got into the water to play.
"Dad, I want to play outside!"
My son said so.
Since my daughter Hikari has a cold and she was watching TV in the kid's room, my son Yuuki couldn't watch his favorite TV program.
After I finished my work I went to the parking lot near the beach with my son.
My son loves to play with a toy car.
After that we went to the beach…..
We had an american family who stayed at Sakuraya on March 30th.
They stayed for only 1 night but they were very glad to stay and gave us this present.
This is called "Toffee-Ettes Cake" made by See's in California.
Here is a story from their web site below.
"Irresistible bite-size pieces of rich Danish butter toffee with whole
almonds are smothered in See's creamy milk chocolate, then covered with
bits of toasted almonds. Keep a canister on hand for unexpected guests
or take one to the office."
Of course it was a first time for us to eat it, but it was very delicious and we enjoyed this flavor!
I show you next one….