Last Monday we took the kids out to a mountain stream. Very nice and cool.
With tempretures soaring into the mid 30c the past couple of weeks anywhere cool is welcome. This was a very nice place in the next prefecture. Up in the mountains, where the water was wide but shallow. There were open sided huts to sit in, plenty of shade from the trees and beautiful cool water. The kids got their swimming stuff on and took off with their Dad for a good couple of hours of splashing fun. They caught a few river crabs and found some baby frogs. I sat with my feet in the water for a while, until they were really cold. Then sat and played cards with M, who at 15 decided that playing in the water wasn't that "cool". It was a nice break and a chance to get out of the heat. Most years we go to the beach but I always feel that the sea isn't so clean and always far to hot unless you are in the water!
The extreme hot weather didn't last. We had typhoon number 5 come past. We weren't hit to bad, but some areas got really hit bad.... again. Friday was really bad here. Even though the typhoon had already passed by we had very heavy rain and high winds plus a thunderstorm that seemed to go on forever, well at least 5 hours, which when you are terrified of storms feels like forever!!!
So a busy week and now a mountain of laundry....which is not cool!!!!!
