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Friday, September 12, 2008
Paper or Cotton?
... Though the question also applies to baby nappies, this one is about the fact that we just had our 1-year wedding anniversary! How time flies.
Last year 07.09.07 (I love that date) was our big day. After some googling I learn that it’s called a ‘paper wedding’ (because paper was the traditional 1-year anniversary gift), though in the Netherlands it’s a ‘cotton’ wedding. Hmmm, wonder why…
Anyway, the 7th fell on a Sunday, and to celebrate we decided to take it easy and spontaneously go away for the weekend. So after the prenatal checkup on Saturday morning (all is fine!) we hopped on the Chuo Line. It was fun, a couple of hours later we just got off somewhere randomly which became a town called Isawa Onsen, in Yamanashi, which is west of Tokyo, just before Kofu. This was a great way to make it a special anniversary. Fresh air, nature, lots of relaxing, taking a sento bath together… The town is surrounded by mountains but as my pregnant belly wasn’t feeling up for a hike during the hot day that it was, we left the mountain trails for another time and took a walk to one of the graperies where we ate yummy fresh grapes (apart from onsen they have lots of fruit around there). The town has ‘ashi yu’, mini hotspring baths for the feet. We sat there soaking with the locals for a while, too. These things are especially wonderful in winter when it’s cold out. Gotta love japan for this.
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