Fukuoka Revisited

We decided that Fyoire should get a trip to the beach, too. She apparently had great fun explaining her vacation-within-a-vacations to her friends. She spent quite a few hours on the beach on Saturday and Sunday, despite the rain. She brought back sand for us to clean and use in her dragon so he'll have even more of Japan in him.

We went and got yummy pizza again. We also ate Chinese food...ohhhh Chinese food.

The restaurant was buffet style. They had these neat little tray like plates that had 6 smallish compartments for you to sample bunches of things without them comingling. Beef sauteed with avocado, sweet and sour pork, spring rolls, fried rice, dumplings and frozen strawberry Fanta - "who could ask for anything more?" I don't think I ate anything that didn't taste good. We even sampled what we decided were rose and jasmine teas. (and Fyoire snagged one of each to take back to a friend...sssshhhh) I now must eat more Chinese food here - tis that good.

We stopped by Japanese outlets - Marinoa City. It was a pretty typical outlet-like mall. We got Fyoire an Engrish shirt (Life Requires Gentleness...) and I snagged another one as a gift for Kyosuke. I got to try on some new slings at Babies R Us (they actually had a sling department). Unfortunately, Roo wasn't too keen on the net one that I wanted for summer so we came home empty handed. There was even an import shop that had some Doritos, Cherry/Vanilla Coke, etc. We got lime and pineapple haichuu there.

It was a nice, relaxed trip. I look forward to our next visit since we still have MUCH to explore there.