Catch Up Time - Yufuin in July 09

Once again, long time no blog. Have totally become a slave to Facebook, against my will, which, along with a festering yet unproductive foray into Twitter has taken its toll on my blogging.
I have also been so busy this Autumn with various Halloween and PTA related things (who goes straight into being PTA president without really knowing what's going on at the school?? But once again I digress), that I have regularly forgotten to take my camera out of the house at all, never mind to the importtant milestones of M's life that I am supposed to be recording. Oh well...

Catch up time again.

Here are some shots in a Flickr slideshow from Yufuin with Ba-chan this summer, before we went to Scotland:


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Birdmen

OK, so I don't have time to tell the full story right now, but thought I better share my husband's bravery (or something!) with the world first.

Last weekend we had an adventurous day at Kijima Korakuen in Beppu. There was much upping and downing and round abouting, but by far the craziest thing anyone did was this. N and DrY tested their and our nerves by being dropped from a great height. Horizontal bungee jumping- not for the faint hearted!

Yufuin Day 2

After our hyper Saturday, we started Sunday off with a peaceful walk through the outskirts of the town.

Dandelion clocks stopped time for a while.

There are some beautiful gardens in Yufuin.

Good to have time to slow down and think.

But wherever there is sophistication and style Japan, you can still expect to find Snow White and the seven dwarves as well!

Some Shots from the Yufuin Weekend

A great time was had by all!




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