Christmas in Toyota

This was our first year 'at home' in Toyota during the holidays. Not willing to risk airport trouble in a flight to Canada, or 35km traffic jams in a 7hour plus drive to Kooriyama, Toyota was what we opted for.

(Christmas Morning)

It was a pretty relaxing! We did day trips to parks, the ocean, shopping sites and friend's houses. We also did a couple of overnight trips to Osaka and to a hot spring hotel. The kids loved having so much time doing whatever they wanted, and we loved having the evenings to ourselves. We finished watching LOST Season 5 and Dexter Season 1.

Still it felt a bit funny not to see the bigger families that we normally see at this time of year. We'll make it up with a trip to Kooriyama in Feb/March.