Day 5: walking around in field

Today is only weekday inbetween the big long holiday.
Soprano was taken to walk out in neighborhood after kids came home from school.

Mommy's friend's daughters, Mi and Chi showed us wonderful rice field around their house.
There's some vegetable field around our house in Tokyo, but this rice field here in Kochi is totally different.
So big and real!!

Seven Day Trip to West Japan - Day 3 & 4

After mommy's show in Osaka, we headed to Kochi, on Shikoku Island.
Mommy's old friend picked up us at the hotel, and hit the road to Shikoku.

His family is so much fun. 6 & 9 year old sisters were very curious to see Pillow and Soprano. 6 yrs younger sister was so good at faking Amazon yelling we didn't recognize which was really yelling.

Shikoku, the fourth biggest island in Japan is such a beautiful place. People make living by farming and fishing and so many natural forest and rivers are still there.

This is beautiful Shimanto River.
So calm, so beautiful, even devine.

Day 2: mommy's show

Day 2: mommy's show at Nagisa Music Festival in Osaka.

Mommy's good friend and great guitarist from Argentina, Fernando Kabusacki joined mommy's show.

This is the back stage tent. Pillow is in Soprano's yellow back pak.
Beautiful guitar behind Soprano is Fernando's Tokai Les Paul.

On warm and fine day with lots of crowds, mommy and Fernando played the guitar loud!
Pillow totally loved that but Soprano seemed a little nervous. :@

Pillow & Soprano listening to mommy at the stage side - - > YouTube

7 days travel to West Japan: Day 1

Pillow and Soprano had their longest road trip to Osaka and Kochi on this big Spring holiday week in Japan.

Day 1: Road to Osaka

The first destination is Osaka, where mommy has the show at outdoor music festival.

Get in the carrier, buckle the seat belt, and hit the road with a buch of gears!

Happy Birthday Soprano

Today Soprano became 2 years old.
He's got the birthday present from mommy!

mmm... what's inside???

wow, Rainbow Slope!

with cars!

a new thing looks always scary at first for birds.

Soprano is trying to examine his new toy.

mommy wanted to me to climb up the toy,

but it was too scary!

mommy had me step up on her arm,

and then put me on the toy.

well, up here is not that bad than I thought.

and my brother Pillow is climbing up, too.

I didn't call you to come here, bro!

They are both happy with their own toys!

How to fold socks

Today, the professor i-love-socks Pillow lectures about how to fold socks correctly.


First, stand at the top end of the socks.

Second, start folding from the top end.

Long socks like this requires pulled-up by beak.

Fold it all the way down to the other side.

Long socks are relatively tricky.
Be careful not to screw up like this.