travel to Japan :)

So here we are in Malpensa all three of us leaving for Japan for the second time but this time accompanied by Momoko who the first time was only a little "bean" in my belly :)

We have found a convenient flight in the website HIS Europe which is specialized for flights, hotel and accommodations in Japan.

Our flight is with Scandinavian Airlines via Copenhagen and with Swiss Air via Zurigo to come back.

Leaving from Malpensa ad arriving Kastrup Terminal 3, the first plane we will take will be a SAS McDonnel Douglas 81, to which will follow a giant airbus for the flight Copenhagen Kastrup/Tokyo Narita, an Airbus A 340-300 always Scandinavian Airlines.

Once in Kastrup we will have 2 hours and 20 minutes to go to Starbucks and eat something and I hope Momichan will find something "oishii" to eat. I have no idea about how will be our flight but I hope Momoko will be ok. I would like to have the chance to show Momichan Tokyo Disneyland and museum Ghibli so I have put inside tha cabin bag a couple of changes for me and she, her pelouche cat, dummy, nappies and bottle for milk.

When we ill come back the 6th june we will use from Narita to Zurigo another giant airbus Swissair A340-300 (foto) and from Zurigo to Milano a smaller one RJ100 Avrolines (foto).
I hope not to arrive home too tired because I know that when "the kids" will go bed, I will have to put everything in order and clean around, after two weeks house will be dirty and dusty and the mornign after I want to wake up in a clean nice smelling house.

No idea about what granny will cook or if we will eat outside, no idea even about what Momochan will like or dislike or if she will feel confortable and if she will like her cousins and all the kids she will find there.

When we will come back I will post everything we have done and saw, I will take my pc to put inside all the fotos we will make and to show in Japan to the family all the foto we have about Momochan since she has born.

Milano-Kastrup (Danimarca)

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Stamattina come da programma partiamo per il Giappone, il nostro volo decolla dalla Malpensa alle 11.20 via Kastrup (Copenhagen, Danimarca) dove avremo 2 ore e 20 per mangiare e poi salire sul airbus che ci porterà a Narita.
Eccoci in partenza, (foto a lato) Momochan sulla porta di casa con il suo nuovo trolley viola scalpita perche non vede l'ora di arrivare sull'aereo, e il suo primo viaggio in aereo in assoluto e suo primo viaggio cosi lungo (due su due), io e papà Sampei portiamo le valige giù in macchina cercando di farcele entrare, sono solo tre ma il bagagliaio è davvero piccolo cosi le dobbiamo mettere a fianco del seggiolino di Momochan in modo che non le caschino addosso.
Prima di arrivare in areoporto dobbiamo passare dal parcheggio coperto GP Parking, lasciamo la macchina per le 10.00 AM e loro ci portano in areoporto, la nostra macchinina ci aspetterà al coperto per due settimane buone.
Una volta arrivati in areoporto andiamo subito al check in per pesare e fare imbarcare le valige, per fortuna sono meno pesanti del previsto, la mia rossa e 21 kg, quella di Sampei 19 kg e il trolley di Momochan solo 7 kg, tutto bene :) un piccolo pit stop al bar, un espresso è l'ideale visto che poi non berrò caffè come il nostro bello forte per un bel pò di tempo, Sampei fa colazione, succo di arancia, caffè e brioche, Momo assaggia impaziente di salire a bordo. In aereo abbiamo i posti sull'ala cosi Momo può vedere bene il decollo, davanti a noi siede una coppia con un bimbo piccino piccino che avrà forse 1 anno e che a un certo punto al decollo scoppia in un pianto dirotto, forse si è spaventato, Momo invece e tutta felice e allegra e guarda fuori dal finestrino, poi si mette a colorare i suoi libricini che ha portato nello zainetto di Trilly apposta per il viaggio :)
Arriviamo a Kastrup per le 13.35 la cosa bella dell'areoporto è che ci sono gratis da usare a chi serve dei passeggini per bimbi, ne prendiamo subito uno e ci mettiamo Momo che è già un pò stanca dopo nemmeno due ore di viaggio e ci dirigiamo subito verso lo Starbucks dove mangiamo un panino, Momo pilucca solo l'interno di un panino che le ho comprato, noi abbiamo una fetta di torta di carote, succo di mango e smoothie alla fragola, bagels al salmone e un panino tacchino e frittata per lei.
Finito di mangiare girelliamo un po' per negozi, a un bar mi faccio rimepire il suo biberon di latte sperando che serva a farla dormire dopo e io mi prendo un caffè (qui i caffè hanno un costo normale intorno al euro come da noi), visitiamo vari negozi, c'e anche Accessorize che vende alcune cose che a Milano non esistono, Momo e papà si fermano a un negozio di giocattoli e Momo prova una macchinina telecomandata, comperiamo alcune cartoline e un portachiavi per me e poi ci dirigiamo al nuovo al check in pe salire di corsa sul aereo jumbo diretto a Narita.
Come scopro presto siamo tutti un po sbarellati, sono le 17.00 per me ma in aereo servono la cena, in realtà sono quasi le 20.00 e dopo le luci si abbassano e tutti iniziano a dormire meno noi tre: Momo sbarellata piu di noi non intende dormire manco col suo latte e goccine, in aggiunta poi ieri aveva 39 di febbre per cui non e proprio al top della forma e insomma noi restiamo svegli dormendo a tocchetti.

Starbucks

It has been said Starbucks wants to open a store in Milan but up till now we do not have any eventually we will have for the end of 2012.

In the meantime we can have all the sweets and food choice this morning at Kastrup airport while waiting for the next plane to take us Tokyo.

I love this store and it will be very nice if we can have one in our city, Tokyo and Japan is full even if I cannot say really japanese are fond of american coffee, they drink mostly green tea but however ... I am fond of the sweets and the juices, they also have many tasty sandwiches, I hope Momichan will choose something to eat and finish all drinking eventually a yummy fresh juice (the mango is fantastic) ! Maybe w will buy a couple of mugs with the logo Starbucks or eventually will wait until departure time when we will come back, in Tokyo Narita there is a fantastic Starbacks store who sells a thousands items and has the tipical tumbler and maybe some special one. (in the foto you can see the Komodo Dragon special tumbler). Last time I had saw a special tumbler all covered by sakura flower, cannot imagine this time what we will find :)
Anyway our adventure is already started, we are all excited, at 15.45 PM we have to take the second plane which will take us to Tokyo Narita where I hope the family will come to take us :) if they arrive we will stay alltogather in an hotel and visit Dysneyland and Totoro Museum in Mitaka, hope to find a Totoro rucksak HAHAHA :)

plane ...

Sunny day, walking through our town sometimes I walk "nose up" so I cann see many aeroplanes flying like for instance this one, see ?
When Momichan sees a plane in the sky she waves it goodbye and say when she will be on it next tuesday she will wave goodbye at earth looking down HAHAHA !

bicycle

Sometimes when is sunny I go kindergarden with Momichan's bicycle so that she can use it in the park or to go around (here leftside you see Momo today with her drinkable strwberry yogurt riding her bike in front of kindergarden).

Today she was amusing so much with her little "two wheels" going here and there and her snack inside the front basket. We went to the central plaza where there is still the train carousel and I bought her some tickets to go on the gummy slider, she likes it so much :)

We spent half an hour there then she went on the little train and took the tail (if you do you have a trip free), she is funny because she perfectly know that if she wants to have more turns she has to take the tail but sometimes she just doesn't care so most of the times she just has two turns or even one :)
After train we went to the park to see if there were some friends to go bicycle with, they were there, but they hadn't got the bicycle today HAHAHA so we stayed a little more then Momichan was tired and we went away home :)
She had a shower, I ut her clean dresses and we went in the livingroom to see cartoons on tv and colour her colourbook and play with stickers :)

new balance ....

A month ago we have made a petition for the Townhall because the kids park is totally ruined and balances for kids were lacking.
Yesterday we go as every day after kindergarden and we see a new balance seat for small kids !!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Momichan and babies finally can go again and amuse like the bigger one :)
Here is Momichan happy again on the balance :) (she is wearing her herlmet because we have come to the park with the bicycle and she never want to take helmet off until she returns home again :)

mom's day :)

Today is a special day, daddy has a half day free so as it is Mum's Day we have reserved for lunch in a restaurant.
I am wearing the special pin Momichan has made for me in kindergarden :)
To give my mum time to dress, Sampei Momichan and I have gone to our preferred coffee shop to have breackfast, the fridge display today was full of Mum's Day special cakes all heart shaped and covered with cream and strawberries :) (see foto on the right).

After a while we went away to take mommy , she mum was really elegant today, with a black ensemble with the jacket with jewel botton gleaming at the sun and soft pants, she has thinned so much recently and she is discovering again the joy of wearing cute dresses after so long time :)
I had choosed a restaurant near home but thinking at it now I guess I haven't made a good choice even if the food was potentially good and absolutely good quality.
The restaurant inside was cute, waiter was gentle, he also took a special rise to put on the chair for Momichan so that she was at our same eight, chimney gave a romantic atmosphere even if the red curtains and high windows gave the impression to me to be in some cave but anyway, food quality of the restaurant is high, it's a pity that the chef did not cook so good .... we were the only clients, place is tiny, just 22 places and no other client was there, chef and a waiter present as staff so, what the hell had the chef to do if not cook for us ???? he said sauce and meat had been made by the waiter that was also serving us ...... !

When I reserved I had to tell everything we wanted to eat (they have no menu) I said salad for me, grilled veggies for my 3 year old daughter, daddy and my mum, grilled black angus meat (it doesn't seem really enormous but it is really heavy, female of this cattle can reach 750 kilos, male 1100 kg, they have no horns and short black or red hair) (アバディーン・アンガス) and ham for everybody.

Well .... ham was really good, no problem, meat was too cooked, it was presented cute and nice but the taste was bitter because of the way they cooked, in my opinion with a too high flame and too quick so that it developed a thick bitter black crust, no good at all for a 3 year old baby, veggies were ok but covered by a thick garlic sauce .... to strong, too garlic, Momichan coudn't have her veggies and just tasted meat, she filled with ham :)

No dessert, just a coffee for everybody, (one each), I asked for milk they answered they had finished it all yesterday to make a cake ... they had not offered neither said we could have .... during the lunch two clients came in and were sent away, they had not reserved ........... !!! GOSH

When we received the bill we discovered it was pretty high, 210,00 euro ! and my bike flow away !!! *

(* Sampei said if we would spend not much at restaurant I would have had chance to buy my new bicicle to run with Momichan but as we spent double than we thought I cannot have my bike ... :(
I guess next time I will make Sampei choose the place :) anyway we have had good time, we took granny home, we went home too, I put Momichan to bed for her usual nap with her milk bottle and Sampei went away to work :)

special present for mum ...

As you know sunday 13 may will be "mum's day" so in kindergarden every kid has made a sourprise for mum, same as they had done for daddy for 19 march, daddy's day.

The sourprise is a pin, made by a round pice of nice smelling wood and little pearls and decoration, the pin is packed togather with a special card with a flower inside decorated with a small poem every kid has learned by heart.

This one is the jewel Momichan has made for me (every kid has made one different and choosed different colours and material to decorate).

Tomorrow we will go restaurant togather with my mum (we have bought a small present for her) and I will wear my precious new pin :)

This is the best present I have received ever :))))

kindergarden spring march :)

Kinderganden teachers have organized for today afternoon a spring march :)
The march will start from kindergarden at 17.00 PM, will prosecute till the other kindergarden where kids will have snack and will end at Centenaio park for a final pizza at 19.00 PM alltogather.
Momichan has not gone kindergarden today because she has had fever last night, pretty high indeed, but anyway she wants to go and doctor told us that if she feels good she can go, is of no use stay home, some fresh air will not do any damage :)
So here we are, we had gone kindergarden at 16.00 PM when all kids normally come out, to take Momichan's bags, every friday the kids take the two bags home to wash (one contain pelouche and pillow, the second, mug, towel and bib).
The weather is hot and sunny today, granny has come to kindergarden so I have profitate and asked her if she could take us to Decathlon superstore because I need some light pants and t-shirts for Momichan, she cannot wear sweaters anymore inside kindergarden, it's too hot :)
So here we are now inside kindergarden ready to go. In the first foto on the left you can see the recognizing "medal" every kid is wearing, it tells "spring march 2012" and every section has a different colour (orange for Momichan, blue, green, yellow and red), in the other foto Momichan is togather with two friends of other classes :)
Despite 39° of fever Momichan wanted to march, sometimes she wanted to climb in my arms, sometimes she runned with her friends, sweeie child, she was all sweaten and hot weather did not help :)
After a while we arrived at the other kindergarden and we stopped for a snack: bisquits, grissini and fresh tea, Momichan did not want to eat not drink anything ...
After 20 minutes we left for Parco del Centenario where we arrived soon after. Momichan stopped under the big salix at the entrance near to a small pond where there are many ducks, she loves the ducks :)
After that every kid went to play on the balances, sliders, run in the park, on the bridges .... until seven.
Sun was really shining hot, it seemed summer has arrived, temperature was more than 25 °C and I guess the only living thing it was feeling ok and fresh were the ducks and the carps inside the pond HAHAHA
Momichan loves the balance so as here we have four of which two for baby kids, she stayed on so much time amusing a lot, also someone gave her as a present a inflatable ball (you know the ones you use at seaside) and she was so happy about it, we took it home.
At 19.00 PM teachers started to distribute pizza, Momichan did not want any so we said good bye to everybody and started to go home, she needed a fresh shower, fresh pijama and her milk bottle, she said she was too tired to eat so after the shower I put her to bed, she still has some lines of fever so I gave her the medicine and soon she fall asleep, I was tired too and I fall asleep on the sofa HAHAHA

rice and veggies

Momichan needs to eat a lot of veggies, pity is she doesn't like so much and most of the times she leaves the veggies in the dish :)
Anyway she has her own preferred veggies, most of all she asks me to cook broccoli or cabbage and carrots; sometimes I can give her also zucchini, onions and other types but chopped so little she can hardlyfeel the taste ; )
For today's lunch I thought it could be a nice idea to mix every ingredient inside her meal and make something colorful so here it is a simple "spring rice" as we call it: rice, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, eggs, ham :)
Momichan didn't leave anything, she finished all the food YEAH !

new kokeshi ( こけし) pijama :)

We were at Kiabi store to buy some presents for our nephews to take to Japan and Sampei found a cute pijama for Momichan with kokeshi こけし dolls (in italian, in english) on it :)

In Japan kokeshi dolls are little dolls made in wood, they have faces and tipical japanese face and hair, they are given as present for good luck at special person friends or family members, students to help concentrate in study in case they have a particular difficult exam and also to a new mother.
Momichan loves her new fresh summer pijama, the two dolls are really cute and as the pijama has no sleeves and short pants she can sleep well in her bed without sweating any more :)
Good dreams then little Momichan, happy you like your new japanese pijama :)

hair cut before travel :)

Since we have to go Japan, Momichan wants to appear at her best so she has asked me to take her to the hairstylist we have just under our apartment :)

We decided to cut hair very short so that she can have neck free, she likes the result very much, even hair short Momichan is so kawaii :))

mommy day :)

In a few days (on sunday) it will be mommy's day and inside kindergarden children have made some little hand works togather with their teachers and they have also learned by heart a small poetry to say to each mom once home.
This morning arriving in the class we saw a new decoration put ouside on the class wall: on a big red heart every kid has attached an image of his/her own mother and teacher has added the mother name, on the left you can see ... me :))

fun :)

Near the train carousel now there is something else, Momichan loves it, it is a gummy air inflated slider absolutely giant.
She wanted to go since a few days but as it was raining first and after it was windy, the owner did not put out, this time we were lucky and Momichan could go, she made me buy 6 turns :) HAHAHA

This kind of fun we normally find at our preferred place Arcobaleno delle Favole but having the possibility to use outside inthe air is simply another thing :)

ducks :)

Since so much time we have not seen any ducks at the park, today as we were playing on the slider someone called to say there were two ducklings peacefoully sunbathing along the water so we went to see :)

Two little brothers apparently the age of one month, were taking a rest while every kid of the park was running to see them and Momichan too, pity it was we didn't have anything to give them but I guess we will take from now on a camera to make best fotos (with the zoom I could have made best images) and some bread or cookies.

Momichan loves the ducks, it is the first animal she saw since she was small and every spring we go to search for the new born ducklings and since now we haven't seen any except for theese two which are already grown up a little :)