Our new apartment

We've had a quiet one as it's been a bit rainy here in Tokyo. We were going to go to this place called Odaiba today which is a big shopping and entertainment district but it's right on the coast so we figured with the tsunami warnings that perhaps it wouldn't a good idea, although it turned out the tsunami was only 30cm high in the end! Gary is feeling really tired anyway because he was up in the middle of the night watching the Six Nations rugby at some Irish pub nearby so he's catching up on some sleep now while Aoife has her lunchtime nap.

We got the keys to our apartment yesterday which is very exciting. It was good to go and have another look around as it reassured me that we'd made a good decision. It's really big and spacious and Aoife was having great fun running up and down the hallway. I'm looking forward to moving in although that won't happen for another three weeks as we're still waiting for all our stuff to come over by sea freight.

Victoria has invited me on a long weekend trip to Beijing with her and two other girls in a few weeks time so we booked our flights last week. It'll be over a long weekend here (like a bank holiday weekend) so we're going Thursday evening to Monday evening which means Gary will get to spend a full four days on his own with Aoife!

Well it's lovely and sunny outside now after a rainy start so perhaps we'll go for a little wander outside when Gary and Aoife wake up. I feel like all I've done today is slob about and eat a lot of bread and cake - bleurgh!

Arisugawa Park

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Grand Hyatt Hotel

Here is Aoife talking on the phone and spotting cars from the window.

The first few days are going well although admittedly it just feels like we're on holiday at the moment. The jet lag is a killer! It's bad enough adjusting to 9 hours time difference just me and Gary let alone throwing Aoife into the equation. The first night she was wide awake from 4am and so we were up and about with nowhere to go. We ended up wandering around the area near the hotel which is a big nightlife spot so we looked rather odd pushing a toddler around in a pram amongst the hardcore party-goers of Tokyo who were still going at 5am. Everywhere was shut apart from McDonalds so we ended up having egg and sausage McMuffins and tea amongst a load of still-out-at-5am teenagers (or maybe they were in their 20s and I'm just getting old).

Saturday and Sunday didn't go much better with Aoife awake (and hungry and wanting to play) during the night from11pm til 4am and 2am til 5am respectively. By Monday we were all feeling very tired and Gary had his first day at work. Aoife and I went to her first Music Together class in the afternoon which she seemed to love. In Music Together we all sit in a circle, sing songs, clap, dance around, play instruments and other such silly stuff which all the children adore.