I have spend the last 2 days with my host family. Yesterday, I braved another Taifun (which ended up passing us by for the most part) and drove all the way from Beppu to Fukuyoshi. I met up with my host family, and we had as quiet of a day as it can be with 3 small children in the house. We also went grocery shopping. The amount of determination and persistence it takes to keep 2 small children in one toy shinkansen grocery cart is astounding. I don't know how my two host sisters do it daily. Also, I have through determination created a better relationship with the baby. Before, she would cry whenever she saw me. However, Okaasan assured me, that she does that with any stranger, not just the "foreign" kind. Now she even laughed at me, and can be in a room alone with me without crying. Unless she is hungry.
Today, we visit to the Jômon open air park, that doubles as one of the oldest excavation sites in Japan. The weather is brilliant, as you can probably see in the pictures. We wander around the premises for 3 hours. We could have spend 10 hours and still not seen it all. It is amazing. From the replicated houses, to the old burial grounds and walk ways, all of it's a joy to experience.
After this, we stop at a famous ceramics shop in Akita.
For dinner we visit Sushi place that I have been to 10 years ago, back then with mum and dad. We have great conversations and even greater sushi. To end the day, we visit to the local Onsen one last time. I can't believe my time in Kyushu is almost over.
Pictures Fukuyoshi
Tomorrow and the following day will be spend shopping in Fukuoka before I have to go back. :)
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