On the sleigh

When Pinga came to pick them up, QP-chan was pulling Coco-chan. Snow brings so much fun to kids.

More snow

They woke up to white scenery three days in a row. There was even more snow this morning.

Dentist for QP-chan

Pinga took QP-chan to dentist this time. She has one hole to be fixed just like Coco-chan. Their next appointment is to learn the environment and tools dentist uses. Then after that, another appointment to fix the problem.

Cozy friend

Totoro likes to be by the office window. He was there quietly while Pinga sits by the computer.

Snowy morning

It was cold and snowy this morning. QP-chan said that she saw an animal. Coco-chan and Pings couldn't see it but then it came out again. It's brown and black, fluffy and size of a cat or medium sized dog. Pinga has not seen something like that before.

Social cat Inez

Inez loves to be around people. Also, she is very interested in human food. So the dessert time looked like this. Pinga wants her chair back though.

Walk with friends

Pinga had a birthday walk with her friends. One of the friends cane with this cute schnauzer, Astrid. They wslked for an hour and a half.

Black forrest cake

In the afternoon, they celebrated Pinga with this black forrest cake. Well, it's Swedish version so much more cream and not much cherries.

Birthday lunch

As it was Pinga's birthday, Pingu took her out for lunch. The restaurant has been renovated and the food was better too.

Happy Momo-chan

Momo-chan was happy to see twins and Pinga in the morning. He was also happy receiving some Japanese sweet and candies.

Dead tired

It was around 8 pm and they needed to get to the gate but the twins were very tired. Pinga woke them up and made them walk as she couldn't carry both of them. They were unhappy and cranky.. 

Rented cart

They were done with the Covid test before noon. There was 9 hours to the flight. Pinga rented this cart to entertain twins and walked around the airport.

Stranded in Frankfurt for half day

Just before boarding the flight to Copenhagen, Pinga found out that Denmark now requires all the people coming to the country to have negative Covid-19 test result within 24 hours. So they couldn't fly as planned and went to the test central. The result was negative but they had to wait until their changed flight at 9 pm.

In Frankfurt

They've landed in Frankfurt just around 5am. They were active as they could sleep 8-9 hours on the flight.

Sound asleep

Pinga sat in the middle and twins quickly fell asleep while the flight was leaving Haneda. As it was not at all crowded, Pinga moved one of them to the seats in front and they could occupy three seats each.

Not sleepy?!

It was 0:30 but twins were not so sleepy when they've just boarded. They wanted to watch movies and play games.

Leaving Tokyo

After five weeks, they left Tokyo. Coco-chan wants to stay in Tokyo forever so he was not that happy leaving. QP-chan on the contrary is looking forward to seeing the cats and the family. The flight was very late at 1 am and Pinga was concerned but twins were up when they boarded.

Birthday lunch

Pinga's best friend took her to birthday lunch to this Japanese restaurant. Dishes were beautifully presented and delicious as well.

Police Coco-chan

Coco-chan was happy with his new toy. Handcuff and a hand gun. Here he is arresting his favourite friend.

Serious thinking

There was a birthday dinner at a French restaurant. After dinner, kids were serious about choosing cakes. QP-chan chose raspberry cake, Coco-chan gateau chocolat, and Pinga Montblanc.

New family member?

They got this big polar bear from a gentleman that was at the game arcade. Pinga and her friend were looking at this gentleman trying to fetch this polar bear. He almost got it but not succeeded. Then he got it after 3 or 4 tries. Pinga went to check it out and he gave it to her. What a nice surprise.

Game arcade fun

Twins had fun at game arcade. This game required to jump to go forward.

Steak dinner

They went to a steakhouse for dinner. Unfortunately kids plate steak was tough to chew...

Karaage lunch

They had gone made karaage, fried chicken, lunch. It was so tasty!

Onsen

They went to onsen, Uhara no yu, in the evening. They had dinner and bathed in hot springs. It was very nice and relaxing.

Making sausages

Coco-chan tried making sausages with his favourite friend. They had good teamwork and did great job.

Dancing QP-chan

They went to KidZania two days in a row. They loved trying different things and learning new things. QP-chan did this dancing performance two days in a row.

https://youtu.be/Tcu7C2NRXbE

Little firefighters

After being police officers, they became firefighters. They were on the fire engine and arrived at a building that was on fire. Here they are in action.

https://youtu.be/2djB0W86T9E

KidZania - soap factory

Twins went to visit KidZania to experience different kinds of occupations. They started off working at a soap factory.

Sushi chef Coco-chan

They went to KidZania today. There they can experience different occupations. Coco-chan tried making sushi while QP-chan joined dance activity.

Arima onsen

They've arrived in Kobe and Pinga's friend took them to Arima onsen. Pinga's friend has an 11 years old daughter that is so good with twins.

Shinkansen for the first time

Twins and Pings took Shinkansen train from Tokyo station. Their destination is Kobe. It would be a 2.5 hour ride.

Onsen area

Hawaiians has an onsen area where people go in with their bathing suits on. Twins and Pings went to this area on the second day.

Futon professionals

They were at their room after dinner. Then there came ladies to set up futon. They were very efficient and took no time to set up four sets of futons.

Dessert time

Kids dinner had good varieties but what twins loved the most was the dessert plate. Coco-chan finished it with no problem.

Swimming pools

After the show, they went to pool area. They are famous for long water slids but twins were too short for those. Twins enjoyed kids pool area.

Coconut juice

Since they've seen Momo-chan drinking coconut drink, they wanted to try that as well. They were so excited before trying. After tasting it, they said... hmm not so tasty. Pinga thought it was pretty good.

Hawaiians - Dance show

After 3.5 hours ride, they arrived at spa resort Hawaiians. It is a resort based on Hawaii theme. So right after they've arrived, there was a dance show for 30 minutes. Twins were a bit overwhelmed by the volume of the music.

https://youtu.be/ETkdG-MDq6A

Off to bus terminal

They were on their way to a bus terminal near Tokyo station in order to take the bus to Hawaiians in Fukushima prefecture. The bus left at 10 am.

Driving experience

They were at Itabashi science hall again. There they've tried different kinds of science experiments. One of them was this driving simulator. QP-chan's leg was not long enough so Pinga was pressing axel.

Salmons

Pinga thought these Salmons drying were real ones but they were just models. There was Japanese bear from Hokkaido at the zoo.

Sumatra tiger

They met their friends from Vancouver at Zoorasia, Yokohama municipal zoo. There were many different kinds of animals like elephants, tiger, red kangaroos, penguins, etc. This tiger was curious about the visitors at one moment.

Happy new year 2021

Here are twins happy with their very first otoshidama, new year money gift for kids. QP-chan was happy wearing kimono too.

Off to Tokyo

Before the cold front came, they left for Tokyo. This Kadomatsu new year decoration was at the front of the apartment building they stayed.

Ping-pong Coco-chan

Coco-chan played ping-pong withhis cousins and he improved his service skills. The table was a bit too high for him and not easy but he tried.

Twins skiing - Day 3

Here's QP-chan skiing. https://youtu.be/axOlvcgl_m8 

And Coco-chan's movie is here. https://youtu.be/TF6bbubcVfo

Coco-chan was on the lift for 4 times and QP-chan for 5 times. They enjoyed skiing a lot.

On the lift for the first time

Third day of the skiing was with Pinga. She took Coco-chan in the morning and QP-chan in the afternoon. Coco-chan was on the lift for the very first time but he was calm and no problems.