Moving Day

Not at all jet lagged, children in fantastic mood.

Lies.

It is moving day though!

We are saying goodbye to the Pan Pacific (and it's extensive breakfast) and moving to our new apartment in Yamashita. The Pan Pacific was where we stayed when we first came to Japan to look round, and it is very weird being here with the children now. Somewhat less serene is possibly understating the feeling.

I suspect that neither the food nor the views will be as good from our new apartment, but it will be nice to have somewhere that is 'home' after over a month of having no such thing.

Little nervous about how the day will go, but fortunately the biggest bumps (aside from the children) should be smoothed by our relocation assistant.

The Japanese lesson for today was "Hello" and "Thank you" - daughter number one quite reluctant to speak Japanese for the same reason that Japanese people are reluctant to speak English. The irony is that she should not only fit in very well here as a result, but stands the greatest chance of all of us of becoming fluent ...