I spent all morning frantically cleaning and tidying as it was possible that Tracy might be calling in before we went to the Tokyo New Mums event in Arisugawa Park. I also had to squeeze in putting the finishing touches to some stuffed cherry tomatoes that I was taking, having stayed up half an hour the night before, hollowing them out. I'm not sure why I decided to make something so fiddly. Luckily Emily was in a cooperative mood and happy for me to buzz around and leave her to amuse herself. Of course, Tracy called later to say that she wouldn't be going after all; oh well, it needed to be done and it was good to have an incentive.
Though it was clouding over it was still very warm out, and by the time I'd walked up the steep hill to the park I was quite sweaty. Arriving at the park, with some trepidation about how I was going to get myself into the circle, I found that I was first there, along with two women who turned out to be the group coordinators. They were very friendly and we set out our picnic mats and chatted. Other mums and babies soon began rolling up, including Lari, the Aussie who we'd met at Yoyogi. People came and went; there were around 20 attending. Most of the other babies were several months older than Emily and I looked on enviously as they rolled and crawled about. The arrangements had been quite ambiguous, and it seemed that nobody else had brought food to share, so after all the effort I didn't even get the tomatoes out! Later on, another Brit came along (the rest were Aussie, American or Asian) and it turned out that she'd arrived in Tokyo about the same time as us, having come from a job at Nissan in Sunderland. Small world. She seemed really nice, and invited us to a coffee morning at hers next week.
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