From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

Today is 11 Sep. and we are enjoying three straight holidays (today is the last day), so we write down our summer vacation trip memories. This year, we have to take 1+1=2 week vacation due to reduce power supply(it is by 3.11 earthquage), so our team took 2 week vacation from 2-16 August and our family planed to go to Hokkaido from 4-11 Aug. Our schedule was like this,   -4 Aug. Itami airport(Osaka) to Shin-chitose airport(Hokkaido), Sapporo   -5 Aug. Sapporo, Otaru   -6 Aug. Otaru&Yoichi   -7 Aug. Furano&Biei   -8 Aug. Kushiro   -9 Aug. Kushiro, Tomamu   -10 Aug. Tomamu   -11 Aug. Shin-chitose airport to Itami airport It spent about 1 month when we returned from hokkaido, so I read our trip note and write down something. *day 1 (4.Aug.) We waked up 4 o'clock and left home at 5:20 this is itami-airport and he likes airplane very much ! After reaching at sapporo, we went to sushi-shop "hokusai". My wife checked all eating shop before! Ho

 Our vegetable garden is fruitful of many vegetables. From right line to the left line,   -eggplant&tomato&small tomato&watermelon&melon   -cucumber&pimento&corn&cabbage   -welsh onion&komatuna (leafy green vegetable)   -green soybeans, sweet potato Now is the summer time and they grow fast and weed is same, so we (always this is my part!) pull out the weed and it is hard job. I always did at the early time of the day because about 9 AM, sun has very strong power and I sweat very much !  eggplant  cucumber from this side, green soybeans and sweet potato   And today, we catched some vegetables, eggplant, pimento, small tomato, tomato !

We went to the exhibition of Ukiyo-e of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. ( map ) Utagawa Kuniyoshi is not so popular compared with Ando Hiroshige, Hokusai, Syaraku but some of his painting is popular (I know some of his unique painting) so this exhibition seemed to be intersting to me. This exhibition is held at Osaka city museum at tennouji and the erea around tennouji-station is recently reconstructed rapidly, so we planed to walk around this erea and ate lunch and afterthat went to the exhibition. We first went to the shop "Abeno and" and had lunch inside this building we then passed through tennouji park to osaka city museum because this museum is located in this park. We can see the tuutenkaku tower over there. this is osaka city museum Afterthat, we went back to the shopping erea and went to the newly-opened shopping center Q's mall. This day, many people were coming there.

At 1-2 march, we went to ise-shima for vacation trip ( map ) , so today we felt a little tired and spending relax time.(my wife&my son is sleeping now and I spent doing computer with linux and writing like this. ) Ise-shima is very good for trip. It is about 200 km from Osaka, so it took about 4 hour to go there by car using highway. We often used nemu no sato hotel because we can use company's coupon at this hotel and furthermore, atmosphere is very good because this hotel and cottage is inside forest and we can spent time by walking, tennis, riding bicycle, fishing, etc, so we sometimes used this hotel ( this is year 2005 trip article ). This time, we can stay there by 9000 yen(about 90 $) with me, wife,son including breakfast using coupon (we have a given number of coupon per year so this time we use 8 coupon so we can use remaining 16 coupon this fiscal year). this is fresh miekatu (fish shop) located at ise-city and we bought luncheon with raw tuna we had l