Golden Week

Cherry tree in full bloom.

What kind of flowers are these?

Japan is on National Holiday the first week of May. We headed into the mountains where the cherry trees were not yet finished. We bought a generic flying disk on the way. We spent three days at a friend's house, ate well, visited about 4 different parks including a flooded lake with trees growing out of the middle of it

Still snow on the ground

and a mini amusement park with a mountain slide and obstacle course. The boy ran it like a monkey. He had a blast over the week and I realized how much Japanese he can speak now.