The big movement

From Spring and Sakura flowers to Summer and Park life in central Tokyo.
Last night we had a small moving in party in our house and we had some friends over. Everyone stayed in our room and it was a bit crowded, but superfun! Thank God for futons. We made sushi of course with our new rice cooker - The best invention ever!!

The Big Buddha in Kamakura.

Patrik, Patrik's finest finger, Camilla and Max in our super Japanese room.

At last Hanna's classmate from London, Stephanie from Florida, has moved to Tokyo.

Miniature Buddhas in memory of lost children. Temple in Kamakura.

A Saturday afternoon in the beginning of April; Max, Shane, Erin and we went to Nikko, a small town about two and a half hours by train from Tokyo. Unfortunately it rained and snowed during the time we visited the place (well, at least 90% of the time spending there) but we enjoyed the place a lot anyway and had a great Indian dinner at the Pakistanian hotel we were living in and ended the evening with having our first bath in an onsen, was a pretty cool feeling to be in a hot bath outside while it snowed. The day after was spent by walking around a bit in the middle of nowhere and see a beautiful landscape, felt like we were living in Lynch's 'Twin Peaks' for a few hours. We managed to find the Keigon waterfall but we didn't manage to take any good pictures of it unfortunately so instead you'll have the great opportunity to see some beautiful people.

Hanna doing her thing in Nikko with Shane as happy audience.

Our Pakistanian hotel in Nikko (well, actually outside Nikko ... somewhere in the middle of nowhere).

Early April in Nikko a.k.a. Twin Peaks.

Erin and Hanna in front of Keion Waterfall, Keion didn't want to be in the picture.

Shane and Patrik looking up to Max's spot. In the background: Keion Waterfall is showing some of it.

Later in April Isa, Camilla and I (Patrik) went to party with some people from school in Shibuya, the evening ended with us three doing a lot of funny things together as finding funny signs, drinking drinks (we all laughed pretty much when we saw the drink menu, to inappropiate to mention the drinks' names here though) and taking pictures in Japanese photo machines.

Swedish humour #1: What is the name of that building?

International humour #1: What is the name of that bar?

Isa, Camilla and Patrik + alcohol + a Japanes photo machine = FUN!!!

Shin-Ookubo station (20 seconds from our school). A politician tries to copy Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka.

Swedish humour #2: Anyone for pizza?

Our new class in school contains of Korean, Chinese, Hungarian and Swedish people.

0515PM. Scene: Café in Shimokitazawa - Max and Hanna checking each other noses with sticky fingers as the result.

0545PM. Scene: At the same café in Shimokitazawa - Wonderful interior.

International humour #2: Anyone for s-perm?

Statue from a temple in the middle of Harajuku.

Modern and ancient stuff in Harajuku. Cameron Diaz vs Audrey Hepburn: 0-3 [Knockout!].

From April 30th and one week forward Japanese people are having days off from work and school, they have something called Golden Week, seems to be a week filled with a lot of national holidays such as Showa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day and Children's Day. Luckily we're are also having this week off from school, we started the week with visiting Meiji Park, nice place huh?

Meiji Park. You're not aloud to eat, drink, smoke, perform any form of exercise/sport or visit the forest ... apart from that it is the one of the best spots in Tokyo.

Patrik playing fashion photographer in Meiji Park. Beautiful scene!

Patrik not playing fashion photographer in Meiji Park. Sweet dreams!

Patrik thinking of what to do next in Meiji Park except for not eating, drinking, smoking, exercising or having a walk in the forest.


Have a good time wherever in the world you are! A lot of hugs and kisses from Hanna and Patrik