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2nd Birthday Backpacking
Let’s go backpacking! Getting started 
Tricky creek crossing 
Best way to backpack: on papa! Helping Dave & Tenzin set up their tent Helping Mama set up our tent Snacking on trail mix That way! Splashing around Throwing rocks 
Best rock to throw! More splashing, fewer clothes Walking by the creek 
What’s this mama? 
For my birthday? 
Let me see how it tastes 
More marshmallows please! Packing up in the morning 
Love hiking! 9/10, will do again -
Tokyo
Bye bye Ojiichan and obaachan 
Seeing a Yayoi Kusama Room 
I think I can I think I can 
Contributing to the Yayoi Kusama Room 
More dots! 
Looking for a sushi place at Tsukiji market 
Tired of walking 
It’s crowded here 
Found sushi, dropped something 
Checking out this awesome garden 
I love rocks! 
Hamarikyu garden 
Heading back to the airport -
Osaka Aquarium
Looking at fish 
Enjoying the kelp forest 
Posing in front of the coral reef 
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! 
Ruka asking to see more big fish 
So many “WOW!”s 
That was fun -
Makin Friends
This car dealership has a restaurant that has a play area 
Slide? 
Playing with some older guys 
Pingpong balls? 
Meeting Hana 
Hana helping Ruka snack 
Yum yum console yum 
Some very fun curtains in this place 
Hanging out at the playground 
Learning how this all works 
Swinging with some help from Ryo 
Swinging with Hana 
Just a two-person-hula-hoop-walk back home from the playground 
super happy! -
Sanda
Snacking 
Out for a walk 
Posing 
Shouwa Bridge 
Telling stories 
Balancing 
Water down there! 
Happy Mother’s Day! 
Napping on papa is the best! 
Aimoto station -
長野
Playing on the shinkansen 
Finally meeting up with Obaachan and Ojiichan 
Over there! 
My cellphone? 
Yes, my cellphone! 
Planning out where we’re going from the hotel lobby 
Getting a driving lesson 
Haven’t started the day yet and already exhausted 
Exploring the gardens 
Goat? 
Piggyback ride around Heidi’s Village 
Piggyback ride around Suntory vineyards 
Best part=pickles 
信州蕎麦は美味しいね 
More pickles? -
Hakodate
Walking to the ropeway 
Waiting for the gondola to go 
Going 
Top of Mt Hakodate 
Nice view 
Music box shop 
Brick Warehouses 
Enjoying the ride 
Hello -
東京に到着
Fresh off the plane 
30 seconds later 
Feeling squirmy at the temple 
Goldfish? 
Riding the train 
Another temple, less squirmy 
Out on the town 
Free from the carrier 
Waiting for kushikatsu 
Tokyo Station 
Waiting for the shinkansen 
Onigiri on the shinkansen -
McGoo
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Another Snow Day & Other Stuff
Ready for more sledding 
Playing with the pow 
Excited 
Excited 
Excited 
Mama’s birthday dinner with Dave & Tenzin 
Portrait Gallery Atrium walking 
Just walking 
nothing suspicious 
Break for the trash cans! 
Trying out the big swing 
This seems to work 
Just a few more hours of this 
swingin
