April 1, 2007

Quest for the "Sakura"

Attempt one: On the day we arrived, we went to a park near Lay See's place, hoping to see the cherry blossoms. But, the flowers has yet to bloom. Consolation: the kids were happy as we had a ride in a "Duck".
Attempt two: When we were at Asakusa (the place with the red giant lantern), we wanted to go to a park nearby to see if the flowers had bloomed. But we cannot locate any park. Consolation: there were a few trees along our way into the temple with 80% of the flowers already bloomed. Nice.



This picture on the left was taken by Jeremy.







Attempt Three: Thanks to Hiroshi, we managed to soak into the "real" sakura atmosphere! It was at this park in Ueno (actually, part of Ai Wah's recommendation prior to the trip was this place. my comment to her then was "why are we visiting the Zoo"!!) Beautiful!!



There were lots of people already there. Drinking, eating and merry making. We had our own little fun too.. Picnic





and enjoying this special Soda drink..







1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah... the flowers look very pretty... got to see the pictures next time we meet as they quite tiny... since I am getting older, eye sight also not as good... haha...

Oh! I tried that soda drink before too... if i got it right, you need to pop a stopper into the bottle and a ball will start to float in the soda... cool contraption... I was so amazed by it...

FK