Monday, February 2, 2009

Cherry Blossoms - Mt. Yae

Sunday we went back to Nago to find some cherry blossom trees. There are several places you can go to look at them, but we chose to go to Mt. Yae. Brace yourself, I am posting a lot of pictures. I just can't narrow it down enough! So here is our second journey to Nago!

'Mornin Sunshine! Now that she is crawling, she knows how to sit up! This is how I found her in her crib Sunday morning. As you can see, she is pretty proud of herself.

Ooops, Olivia fell asleep before we left!

Now here is something you don't see everyday...There was a bull going down the road.


There was some type of marathon going on in Nago. They run with the cars?! Now that is motivation to keep running!


Ok, here we are going up the mountain. Look at how narrow the road is! And you had to be careful because a lot of the trees were really close to the road, so we couldn't go all the way to one side.

Cherry blossoms line the road all the way up the mountain:

About halfway up the mountain, we parked and walked around- a view:


Up close and personal with the blossoms:



Family Shot!




These bloom facing downward:


Mike says "Welcome to Jurassic Park":


Walking back up the mountain isn't as fun as walking down:

That way to the mountain top!

So pretty!



Here we are at the top. There was a little rest spot. And of course we had to stop and feed the little piggy.

Eating green beans on the mountain top!


What do you do when there is no snow to sled down? Grab a piece of cardboard and go down the nearest hill! This little guy was having a blast:


We thought it would be nice to lay a blanket down and play for a little while:

But all Olivia wanted to do was crawl away and play in the dirt:

Showing off the stick she found:

Stick got taken away:

Flying baby:

"Hey, what's he doing to me?"


Ok, this is the very tippidy top of the mountain. Or at least as far as we could get. We had to go through some tall grass and stand on a well that reminded us of The Ring, but we got these great pictures to show for it! You can see all the cherry blossoms dotting the mountain:
The ocean is back there:


Getting ready to go back down the mountain. Apparently, Olivia called shot-gun. But she got booted back to her car seat instead:

Going down:
Can't get enough of the view:

Like mother, like daughter. One sock on, one sock off. Except I do not eat my socks. This is how we found her when we went to get her out of the car:
Superstars:


The Cherry Blossom Festival - they had booths set up near the bottom, we decided to walk around a bit more:


They had this painting on display, it was huge!


Olivia found a friend! He was six months old:


First time down the slide with Daddy:


Now with Mommy:


Another Family Shot:

Ok See where the arrow is pointing? That's where we were on top!

A nature trail (we didn't do the whole thing, it was too long, maybe some other time)



Yuck! Traffic!


At the place we stopped for dinner:

Our $90 dinner...I'm not kidding. It sure was good though!
So that was our weekend activities. We hoped you enjoyed them!

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