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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Tobaru Koen - Roller slide park

We baked cookies all morning on Sunday, so when the afternoon rolled around we decided to get out of the house for a bit and hit up a park we haven't been to yet.  I've heard about this amazing roller slide, so we were all in to check it out.  

There was a toddler play area right off the parking lot.  



This is what we came for....The supposedly biggest roller slide on the island.  

Here are Reagan and I going down the first time.  Reagan's in front.  

We bought these yellow sleds at the 100 yen store for the sole purpose of using them on these slides.  I thought they helped, but Reagan didn't like using it and found copying the Japanese kids by squatting down worked better for her.  

There were a couple of good drops, where you really started moving.  You can tell I'm slowing myself down by bracing my feet against the sides.  



Brock took a couple mini runs before we decided to have Brandon take him on a real run.  





So Brandon tried using the sled too.  I'm not sure what happened, if it came out from under him or what, but his jeans ended up with a hole in the butt.  I'm going to say that they had a hole burned in them, cause you do work up some friction on the slide.  



I'm not sure who was having more fun here....

This method proved faster for Reagan.  When she went on her bottom, she came off the slide saying her butt was vibrating still :)





Saw this sign on the way out.  I love the illustrations.  

Some of the Japanese kids were sledding down this hill on cardboard.  


Friday, December 6, 2013

Kids Christmas Party

Brandon's command hosted a Christmas party for the kids this morning.  They had a craft table set up and bubbles, along with Christmas presents for the kids.  Here's Brock before we left.  He's really starting to ham for the camera.  Sorry for the blurriness.



This poor Santa…He tried his best, but his costume was a little sad.   Here's Brock with Santa


This is my favorite one.  He didn't love Santa this year.  

Here's Reagan with Santa.  

 The kids opening their gifts.  Can you see Brock's mouth saying "Whoa"    He got a truck and Reagan got Pokemom cards.