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The Week #317
by James- βοΈ We flew to the UK β work for me and a week long english course for Leo. The flight itself was smooth as can be with ANA. While Leo didn't really watch movies on the console this time about, instead he played his switch and piano in Garageband.
- π¬π§ Escaping the humidity of Japan has been nice, but it's been 31 degrees during the day here as well. And it hasn't rained in a month, so parks that are usually full of green grass are brown. The mornings are still glorious. We went to the Diana Memorial Playground again this year, but it's still in the final stages of the rebuild. It's meant to be open for Summer 2026 β let's hope it finishes in the next couple of days.
- πΉοΈ The Science Museum still has the video game history exhibit going, so we had to go. Many of the games were the same, but many where not. This year we played our first first-person shooters together with Golden Eye for the N64 and Halo3 on X-Box. The latter being his favorite game that he played this year.
- πͺ© We explored Camden as well. Last year we went to Camden after the London Zoo, we barely could see anything. This year we could actually go deep into Camden Market and browse / look around. I think the main driver for that was there are a number of anime and manga shops, so every so often he could see a lot of Dragon Ball figures or an entire Bandai store full of gacha-gacha π .Β
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Checkin to Three Uncles
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Checkin to Marylebone Green Playground
Perfect weather -
Checkin to Science Museum
Playing games before visiting the actual museum. -
Checkin to Hyde Park
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by JamesRegents Park jet lag run
Lovely to run in cool and low humidity situations. Saw some foxes too π¦5.0km
34.7min
14.7m climbed
avg bpm
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Checkin to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)
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Checkin to ANA LOUNGE
Off to LHR π¬π§. Had me curry but forgot to take a photo. -
The Week #316
by James- π Before bed each night we read to Leo. This week we started having reading time where we all read together for 10 - 15 minutes before we read to him. After a couple of weeks, we finished reading Matilda. I haven't read the book since I was in the 5th grade and mostly relied on the movie/play for my recollections of the story, but it did end differently than the movie. (Spoiler alert!) Not by a huge amount, but they did not have the adoption papers ready to go.
- βΊοΈ I tried to sell the tent and failed, but not because of a lack of trying. The company that I'm selling it to sends you a box, you put the tent in the box, then Sagawa comes and picks it up the next day or so. The large box was said to be a rectangle that would fit the tent and a bit. However, the box that arrived was a smaller square box. Thankfully I could send them a message on LINE and get a new box ordered, but I won't be able to actually sell the tent until next month when I'm back from a trip.
- βοΈ I watched a video about Global Village Coffee House, the name of 90's esthetic that was everywhere e.g. Starbucks etc... and it made me feel like it's ready for a revival. With all of the stupid things happening everywhere, how nice would it be to get a coffee, sit on some comfortable seating, and think about us as the global village that we are. So good, right?
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