in japan:: odaiba

over the weekend, we thought to bring the mummy & munchkin somewhere new. maybe the beach or a pretty old town or to the forest!! but we all slept in and had a lazy long breakfast, leaving us with not much more time. so we packed up the troops and shipped everyone off to odaiba.

testing our revolutionary doggie sling in the subway...

odaiba is huuuggge!! we first went there back in the days for daniel's first tokyo marathon. i don't remember that much of this little island back then because the poor boy was freezing at the end of his run and there were a million people around.. so it was nice to revisit it at a leisurely pace. we popped into venusfort for lunch, a venetian inspired mall which was freakin' huge. 

the first level is dog-friendly so you could walk your dog into the stores. musashi had a great time riding in our shopping carts. but the crazy thing is everyone and their dogs behaved in such a civilized fashion. little children run up to you and ask politely if it was ok to pet your dog. there was no barking, the mall didn't smell like pets and everything was poop-free. i guess there is something to it if all the pets are so well-behaved.

we finished out day in a huge american feast of shrimp & beers at bubba gump and a smidgen of shopping. i don't know about you but weekend mall shopping sucks the life out of me! so even though we had a relatively slow and short day, i was completely pooped by the time we lumbered home.

i wonder how some people do this every weekend!! :)

xx