Jo and I took the girls across on the monorail to Odaiba where we met Bettina and Tim at Starbucks. When we arrived the outside seating area with the fantastic bay views was nearly full but we baggsed the last table, and one by one the other tables emptied. Surely nothing to do with our raucous children?! The kids were soon sated and ran up and down the walkway along the front of the mall, gradually going further and further away until I ended up having to chase after them repeatedly and shepherd them back to base. It was already very hot and the sun felt really strong.
We soon had enough of the chase and loaded them into the pushchairs for the short walk round the edge of the water to the pirate boat playground, where the others hadn't been before. The children played around that for some time then we had a picnic in welcome shade. None of them ate very well as they were too excited to stay put. Emily knew all about the water feature close by and was pestering to go in so we got them changed and they had a great time in the shallow water. It is just a pity that there are no trees near it to cast some shadows and despite suncream I was scared that Emily would be scorched in the glare.
We walked back to the mall and Isy soon dropped off. Emily and Tim were still lively as we went round ToysRUs, then she and I headed for the boat pier while the others stayed in Aquacity a bit longer. We had a lovely ride back to Shibaura, as always, and not for the first time I pondered that there are many merits to Tokyo with a child to offset the usual grumbles that I have suffered for so long.
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