The sand art cometition of Shirahama primary school was held by PTA this afternoon as an anual event.
All of school students participated this competition and the parents supported their children.
It was sunny but not very hot, so this is good condition for sand working.
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After that my son and I came back home by walking on the beach.
It has been sunny since last Friday, but it was the most beautiful day of this weekend today.
We didn't have wind and we could see Izu Oshima island clearly from the terrace of Pension Sakuraya.
There are many kinds of flower around Pension Sakuraya and the flowers are now blooming.
Yes, the summer has come here in Shimoda!
By the way, this is our son, Yuuki.
He was putting on the his elder sister's hut.
We will have the children's day on May 5th, so I stood up the carp streamer for my son yesterday.
We had a little wind, but it was sunny and very warm here in Shimoda today.
I went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" with my son to take pictures.
As they had good waves there were a lot of surfers on the beach.
You can see the other pictures on Pension Sakuraya's Facebook here.
I went to Shimoda with my son for cycling today.
All of Sakura trees in Shimoda are almost fully blooming.
My daughter got a fresh seaweed "Wakame" which her friend's parents got from Shirahama Beach today.
We had dinner with this seaweed as cooking with vegetables in a pot.
Wild fresh seaweed "Wakame" is changed its color soon after putting them into the hot water!
Thank you for wonderful present!!
It was sunny and very warm today, so I went to Minami Izu town with my son to ride a bicycle and play on the beach.
We had a little south wind, but it was very warm here in Shirahama today.
So my son and I went to the beach this afternoon.
It was a first time for us to get into the sea water, but it wasn't cold.
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We had very beautiful day with blue sky today after a long time.
Yesterday they had huge waves here in Shirahama and there was nobody for surfing.
But there were some surfers in the water because it was good condition for surfing today.
After I walked on the seaside road I went to Shimoda to play with my son and we took Free Foot Spa at Shimoda harbor.
Yesterday they had a heavy snowfalls around Tokyo.
It was stormy day in Shimoda, but we didn't have much snow here in Shirahama.
So I went to Amagi mountain, about 30 minutes by car, with my son today.
He was very excited with a lot of snow!!
We went to Shirahama shrine as a first visit of the new year 2014.
Most of Japanese visit to a Shinto shrine during during the new year holidays, and we pray for the safety of our family and possessions as well as to pray for a rich harvest.
My second daughter helped as Miko (Shrine maiden) at this shrine.