Christmas Eve 2011

On Christmas Eve, we headed into Tachikawa to do a little geocaching, eat at "Communist gyoza" and then over to Showa Park for the Christmas lights.  We had success finding a few caches and even found a cool park for the kids to play that had a great big "oni" slide.  In traditional fashion, the slide is made out of concrete and is super fun to climb up and go down.  It was cold out but the kids were too busy running around to notice, yet.

After some gyoza and beer, we walked over to Showa to see the lights.  But half way through the park, Quinn started to get tired and cold.  So he didn't want to be in many pictures.  Scarlett quickly obliged and even tried to do the victory sign but couldn't figure how to do it with her gloves on.

Trying not to be cold in front of the tree made of champagne glasses .

The kids crashed on the ride home and were in bed as soon as we got home.  Nobody even wanted to help put the cookies out for Santa.  Luckily,  Santa knew where to grab a few cookies by himself.