It has taken her 10 months from birth, and now Emma is walking about.
She managed to get a start on Rina in that area. Rina began taking her steps as soon as she hit 12 months.
Emma looks to be having more fun now that she can move about on her two feet, but still resorts to all fours if she wants to move about in a rush.
We managed to get-away for a quick visit to Shousenkyo Gorge, in Yamanashi Prefecture. An area that is:
considered Japan’s most beautiful gorge. It is part of the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, which covers more than 1250 square kilometers of forested mountains, valleys and some rural towns in the prefectures of Yamanashi, Saitama, Nagano and Tokyo.
As usual it was good to get away from Tokyo for a short time and see somewhere else. Everyone seemed to enjoy the time away, though not the very very cool/cold autumn weather. It did help that the heater in the cabin we stayed in worked in a sporadic beat. It was on and off all the time… Rina enjoyed keeping us warm with her concert performances after dinner.
Apparently the day before we arrived there were fierce thunderstorms all around the area – causing a lot of problems. But what that did for us was clear the day of all the weekenders from eastern Japan. We were able to enjoy the autumnal color changes with gaggle of thousands, rather than the throngs of millions – well not quite like that but close enough.