Urasoe Art Museum

 On Tuesday, Calla picked me up and off we went!

Dan texted to ask if I wanted to go to lunch, so I sent him this picture of me in the car, heading out on an adventure!

This is what we went to see. The Miniature Life display at the Art Museum.

It was fantastic!  I mean, just LOOK at this!

They had displays of the clever art, and photos of it. You have to zoom in on this one. It is a restaurant set up in this tape dispenser! 

And how adorable is this?! Sushi beds!

A running path on tennis balls? I love it. 

This photo of the adorable alien orange. 

Astronaut circling an ice cream cone?  Yes, please!

The miniature people were tiny.  Check out this guy on the light switch. 

Skiing down toilet paper- so funny!

I loved that for some, there was the display and the photo.  So you could see the design that he took pictures of.  And you can get a different angle on it. So, here you have farmers farming a circuit board.

 And the photo makes it really look like they are farming rice.  So cool! It was such an amazing exhibit and I loved it.

Dogs

Sarah cracks me up when she sits like this.

Levi is jealous of Sara getting love so he needs more snuggles.

Rylee thought Sarah was too cute all curled up on the couch.

Levi loves the dog park.  But only if the dogs are not bigger then him!

Marian likes the dog park too.

Sarah is poking me with her front feet so I will pet her more. She snuggled up for petting.  When I stopped petting her, she pawed at me.  When I did not immediately start to pet her again, she used the other paw.  This is her pathetic "pet me" face, and her "pet me" paws.

The kids think she is so cute and love tasing pictures.  She is pretty cute.

Callie and Levi are snuggling.

Sarah is still rather timid.  Sometimes she hides under the footstool and it makes me laugh.  

My new favorite game!

 This past summer, the game "Telestrations"was brought to the Family Reunion, and much hilarity ensued.  So we got it for Christmas.  And yes, it is still that much fun! I really should have taken pictures of more of their things, but I did not.  I was laughing too hard.

The phrase was "Tossed Salad".  And this is what Marian drew.

This was Rylee's guess at the above drawing. 

In case you are wondering, it devolved into some very entertaining things and ended with "Fireman" 

My other favorite drawing was this.  Marian was drawing a "Pig King". And I was vastly amused!

If you do not have this game, you must obtain it.  

I did something fun!

My friend Calla took me out.  She likes to explore and knows lots of fun places, but I do not like exploring.  I like having my hand held and being taken places.  So she held my hand and took me some place.

This is the place.  It is a Chinese garden with 4 quadrants that represent the 4 seasons. I think.  It was really neat!

It was beautiful.

It had all these gorgeous picturesque things everywhere and I loved it!

This was in the middle.

 And after you meandered around the path to get to it, there were all these awesome little trails around and even under the waterfall!  You could also climb up one of several sets of stairs to the top.  So cool!

 Look at me!  I'm inside the waterfall!

I loved this column and now want this carved into my house. Okay, maybe not that.  But I love it.

And this 7 story pagoda was fantastic. 

See, I'm out doing fun stuff! 

And taking pictures of all the pretties. 

And there were a lot of pretties! 

 And a koi pond.  I bought fish food to feed the fish.  This bird was hoping to get him some dinner, but the koi were a little big for him.

And then we went to lunch at the restaurant next to the Garden.  I tried the roast beef curry, since I have never met a curry I did not like.  It was delicious.  But I did not like the perfect, uncooked egg yolk perched atop my rice.  I had to gently roll it down the rice mountain and nestle it on the side.  I was impressed I did not break the yolk sac. The roast beef and curry were amazing.  And only 500 yen for a delicious lunch.

Rylee is a Goober

Random stuff

Josh's car was overheating.  He still drove it the mile to school for a week or two before I called our favorite car guy about it.  He said no more driving it!  It did work out nicely to have it towed in because that meant I didn't need another person to get it over there.  It needed a new thermostat and was back home 24 hours later.   

 Now that Christmas, and stocking season, is over, I'm making baby quilts again! 

 The high school posted Marian on their page. With the awesome cutting board she made me for Christmas.  Love this girl!

 Delaney thought this flower on our bush was so lovely.  So she took a photo.

 While going through some stuff, I found this!  The letter from waaaaaaaay back when, awarding me a scholarship from MOWC.  Joshua is currently applying for this exact same scholarship!

I made a new friend who likes to go out.  It works well because I like going out, but lack the motivation go actually do it.  So she got me out to lunch and it was lovely.  And tasty. 

Rylee is a goober and makes me laugh. 

We took all the kids to see the movie "Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse"  and it was probably the best family activity that we have done in a while, simply because they were all excited to go watch it, they all got along nicely and we all loved the movie.  Yay!

Can you see the Marian in the tree?!

Rylee is also having a blast in the awesome climbing tree.