Evie had flute and then a birthday party for a friend who moved way out in the stix so while Scott shuttled Evie around, Nora and I were on our own. It's not much of a date, but she joined me doing a bunch of errands, including a couple of returns to some stores in the mall. We stopped and grabbed lunch while we were there. Nora wanted a smoothie/icy drink and after some debate, we settled on trying a new-to-us burger place and got a chocolate shake to go with it. Here's her happy face while eating lunch. And yes, she kept her jacket on her head the entire time we were at the mall!
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
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