Sick in Japan

Yup.. I think mummy infected you too. Sigh.. You woke up very early this morning, crying away. Perhaps it's rather dry too, so you took a feed, but seemed uncomfortable still.. So mummy gave you some of your medicine (thank goodness we brought them!) and to our surprise, you fell asleep again, and only woke up around 9.30 after mummy had taken my bath. Phew... so you freshened up, took you moi moi and off we went. We left the apartment around 11am. Pek Kong had already left the apartment. He's going travelling and will only be back on Friday. Where did we go today?

We went to Asakusa to look at a famous Buddhist temple. We took the subway to Asakusa which was the last stop on the subway. The train ride took less than 30 minutes, but you sat quietly on daddy's lap all the way there. Perhaps this new experience is a little scary to you. We got out and slowly made our way to the temple. All along the way there were vendors selling souvenirs, all types of biscuits and snacks that were made there, and even clothes. They had the adorable Yukata, that Pen Kong had bought for you last year when daddy came to Japan.

Finally we came to the temple. It was massive and there were lots of people visiting this temple. Seemed to have many locals there too. Perhaps it's because it's a Saturday. Everyone is out! We walked around, and daddy took some pictures before we walked back to the shopping area to look around. What to eat for lunch? There were so many shops to pick from and we didn't know where to start. We finally settled for a shop, after looking at the displays outside. It was a good choice, being a family restaurant, they even had a baby chair for you and even served kiddy meals. But since you'd already taken your moi moi, you ended up eating the Chawan Mushi that came with Ah Ma' s lunch. The food was yummy. Hey.. in fact, all the food that we've tried so far has been delicious and new to us. We walked around a little more before heading towards the subway to go to Ueno.

Ah Ma was thinking of cooking dinner tomorrow, and so we hopped off the train at Ueno. Got a little lost trying to find the market area. But we finally found it and it was interesting. There were so many stalls, selling from shoes to clothes, to raw food to cooked food. We bought some things and headed home.. without the food for tomorrow's dinner! I guess we'll be trying another restaurant for dinner tomorrow. Or maybe Ah Ma will buy some things to cook at the convenience store nearby tomorrow.

You'd fallen asleep in mummy's arms (sigh.. didn't bring the stroller with us today) and daddy took over to carry you. My arms were already aching this morning from carrying you the whole day, yesterday! But you woke up 30 minutes later when we were just about to reach home. Luckily you played a while in the house and went back to sleep again. So we all took this opportunity to siesta too.

Dinner was at a little 24hour restaurant that daddy recommended. He said that the beef or chicken meal was nice. So we took a little walk and had a simple meal as compared to yesterday, but still delicious. It is more quiet in Akasaka today as fewer people come here, with it being a business district and today being Saturday. I guess they headed elsewhere unlike yesterday when it was Friday and everyone just headed to the nearest bar to relax after a long weeks' work.

Everyone is sleeping now, and I haven't gotten the time to figure out how to load the pictures from daddy's camera. Must make a note to self to ask him tomorrow. I think I'd better hop into bed too. Goodnight. Hope you get better tomorrow. I wonder where we're going next...