Our big shopping weekend started on Friday when a big shopping center, Ogino had its' semi-annual sale... Well, it's not as good as America's Black Friday since all the stores have 20% off at max but just as crazy... I knew I won't find that good of a deal at this sale but we were there for $10 diapers for Madison... We ended up finding a few more things so that was good but the people who go crazy over 20%off, I think they are the most scary people and I never need to be a part of them... Imagine if they made it to one of the Black Friday sales!? Yikes!!
月曜日は、土曜日参観の振替休日でお母さんはお休み、そしてそれに会わせてお父さんとあすかが休みを取れたのであすかがよく行くアウトレットへ行って来ました。くねくねした道を通って山を越えて２時間後にやっと到着です。残念ながらこの日は雨が降っていたのでお母さんが楽しみにしていた“杏奈とあすかが買い物している間に芝生の上でマディソンと遊ぶ”計画は実行出来なかったけど、本当に綺麗な所で歩き回って十分楽しめました。マディソンもばあばとじいじとあすかおばちゃんに沢山高い服を買って貰っちゃって着せるのが楽しみ：）アメリカのアウトレットにあるお店の他にやっぱり日本でしかないお店も沢山あって面白かったので次ぎにデイブを連れて来るのが楽しみです：）
On Monday Mom had a made up holiday from the Saturday that she had to go to work and Asuka and Dad took a day off of work so we got to go to this really popular outlet stores two hours away... After driving through snake like roads to get to the other side of the mountain we made it safely... Unfortunately it was raining so g-ma didn't get to play with Madison on a huge grassy area like she dreamed and talked about, but we had a great time and I know that the view is just amazing when sunny and the buildings are really cool... Madison got tons of not so inexpensive clothes from her g-parents and aunt Asuka:-) Besides the regular outlet stores that we see in the States they also had tons of Japanese clothing stores so I had fun going through them... I look forward to coming back with Dave next time:-)
子供服があるフロアの真ん中にあったトーマス機関車にばあばとじいじがマディソンを連れて一週旅行...
In the middle of children clothing floor they had Thomas train going around in circles so g-pa and g-ma bought Madison a coin and rode it with her...
そして、お会計が１万５０００円!?越えた時にまたトーマス機関車のコインを貰ったので今度はあすかおばちゃんとママで一週旅行...別に特別に面白い訳じゃないけど時間があったらビデオ見てね！
Then later on we got another coin for exceeding $150 purchase total so Aunt Asuka and I rode on the train with her... It's nothing special but if you have another 1 minute to spend hit play!
In the middle of children clothing floor they had Thomas train going around in circles so g-pa and g-ma bought Madison a coin and rode it with her...
そして、お会計が１万５０００円!?越えた時にまたトーマス機関車のコインを貰ったので今度はあすかおばちゃんとママで一週旅行...別に特別に面白い訳じゃないけど時間があったらビデオ見てね！
Then later on we got another coin for exceeding $150 purchase total so Aunt Asuka and I rode on the train with her... It's nothing special but if you have another 1 minute to spend hit play!
さてここからが悪夢の始まり...午後買い物をしている間に長〜いお昼寝をしてくれたマディソンでも、家に帰るまでの２時間眠れずにじっとカーシートに座っているなんてとっても無理。泣き叫んだり、シートベルトから抜け出そうとしたりと大変な騒ぎ...しょうがなく途中でサービスエリアに停まって一時夕ご飯休憩を取って何とか家に着いたけど、困ったな、後２週間後の成田空港までの４時間はどうやって埋めれば良いんだろう...しっかり準備をしなくちゃ...
Well the nightmare happened on the way back home... Since Madison took a really good nap in her bugaboo in the afternoon while we shopped she was wide awake when we got in the car to head home and just wanted to get out and move... She cried, squirmed and tried to get out of her car seat with all her might and was a struggle... We decided to take a dinner break in at a service area so that she can move around a bit but this has made us nervous for our trip to Narita in less than two weeks... It's a 4 hour trip so let's say she will be sleeping the first two hours and what would she be doing the second half of the trip!? It will require some serious planning... Sigh...
Well the nightmare happened on the way back home... Since Madison took a really good nap in her bugaboo in the afternoon while we shopped she was wide awake when we got in the car to head home and just wanted to get out and move... She cried, squirmed and tried to get out of her car seat with all her might and was a struggle... We decided to take a dinner break in at a service area so that she can move around a bit but this has made us nervous for our trip to Narita in less than two weeks... It's a 4 hour trip so let's say she will be sleeping the first two hours and what would she be doing the second half of the trip!? It will require some serious planning... Sigh...
そして、可哀想な妹は眠り始めて１時間後の朝０時に緊急事態で呼び出されて出動...殺人事件だったみたいなんだけど本当に大変だなー。あすかは本当に凄い事してるなー、私では絶対出来ない！私達がアメリカに帰ったらしっかりと休める日があればいいんだけど...
And let me tell everyone reading that my poor sister got an emergency call in at midnight after only an hour of sleep and we didn't even get to say good bye in the morning... It ended up being a homicide of some sort... I'm so proud of her for doing what she does and really hope she can get some serious resting time once we go back to the States!
And let me tell everyone reading that my poor sister got an emergency call in at midnight after only an hour of sleep and we didn't even get to say good bye in the morning... It ended up being a homicide of some sort... I'm so proud of her for doing what she does and really hope she can get some serious resting time once we go back to the States!
That was a hard age to travel for us too. Not much kept Lily's attention, and she really just wanted to move around. But I think that was when Lily was just barely starting to get interested in the iPhone. We downloaded little games that we could play with her and looked up Baby Einstein videos and videos of dogs and cats on Youtube and she was good to go. Lots of books also help in the car. Good luck!
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