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At the big mall near where Chie's parents live they have some novelty shopping trollies.13:10:52
Erika in the kid's play area at the place where we had a quick lunch.13:15:15
Erika eating a bit of pizza at lunchtime.16:43:31
In the park where we went to take some family portraits, I thought bamboo made a nice backdrop.
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Of course none of us are professional photographers so the general plan was to just snap away and hope something nice came out.16:46:09
...of course even getting Erika to be in the shot was a bit of a challenge.16:46:14
...and to face the right direction.16:46:16
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Erika on my shoulders.16:46:32
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Erika delightfully oblivious of the fact we were trying to take a nice photo.16:46:43
I think this may actually be my favourite picture of the three of us - I'm sure it breaks all the rules of portrait photography, but we're all having fun.
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This is quite nice too, despite the fact Erika is sticking her tongue out, and there's a bit too much ground at the bottom of the photo.
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Did one on self timer of the whole family, and I think it came out pretty well first time so just did the one.16:55:02
Erika larking about in front of a little wall which had some sea creatures painted on it.
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The three of us doing a crab impersonation in front of a crab.16:56:03
Erika sort of joining in.16:56:08
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The three of us and an octopus.16:57:28
Chie and Erika in a tunnel.16:57:55
Erika peeking through various shaped holes in a wall.16:57:58
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There was a nice sky, but unfortunately the park was surrounded by trees and it was hard to include it in any of the family portraits.17:04:49
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For dinner, we headed to Kura Sushi, the conveyor belt which is becoming our second traditional haunt, as it's a bit more kid friendly than Sushi Tei.18:10:48
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Erika eating some natto maki sushi in a superbly messy way.
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Yuka-chan, Hirofumi-san and Yoko-san.18:22:35
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Our side of the table.18:22:52
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Me feeding Erika inari sushi.18:23:44
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Erika watching the little screen that does an animation for every 5 plates you drop down the chute.
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Erika dropping plates down the chute.18:30:29
Fried sweetcorn. This felt more Thai than Japanese, and either way not sure it belongs in a sushi place.19:08:46
We eventually persuaded Erika to actually sit in her child seat for dessert.19:09:02
She's having some kind of mochi with kinako.
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