Warning!
This blog post is full of out of order pictures! I apologize. I don't have time to fix them all. You will have to just go all over the place with me lol!
I wanted to share our pics from our trip to San Francisco this last weekend. I took my girls up for the day to Japantown. It's a 3-3.5 hour drive from us but it was fun to be in the car with them and listen to music and get Starbucks etc. They had a blast. The main reason was to go to two Japanease "dollar stores" for some Bento supplies. I had been shoping online to compare if it was worth the drive and it was. The outing of a fun day was a bonus as was the fact that my eldest is a big Japan anything lover. It started with Anime but has developed into an over all cultural admiration. So, this post is going to take us there, and show some Bento from just this morning using some new wares. At the end of the post, I will put my youtube showing our haul. The girls got some fun things of their own like Japanease candy, stuff for Halloween and just little things they liked. Dollar stores are fun as they are but a cultural one was even more fun.
Can you imagine living in one of these gorgeous San Francisco homes!!? They are so beautiful.
The wall going into the East Mall in Japantown is a great colorful backdrop for a picture.
Skipping all the way to the bagged up bento from this morning. I hate that these are out of order....
Rick's Bento from this morning. Asian noodles, shrimp, a sauce (made of soy, sesame oil and infused overnight with fresh ginger), asian pears, rasberries, carrots, mini cookies and Seaweed salad)
Another gorgeous building, and Emma trying to get in the shot.
Emma at lunch in the West Mall. She ordered some shrimp tempura that came with a bowl of Miso Soup
Close up of Ricks noodles. I purposefully fork rolled four sets for presentation.
While in SF, I saw some amazingly cute onsies that I wanted to get so badly for my friend's baby but they were $22 ea!!! My friend and her husband are our wine and sushi kindreds so she would have loved this.
Victoria in the Kinokuniya Bookstore looking over all the Manga books!! It was hard to choose just two.
The second main reason we went, Ichi Ban Kan. This store is $1.50 to $2 for most things. I look forward to going back here, they had the best boxes in my mind.
Victoria in accessory heaven.
Okay...skippng to mommy's bento for today. Seaweed salad may not be something I do again. Not a fan. I may have let it soak too long. The shrimp, noodles and sauce was great though! I took a very low portion of noodles (one because that's all that was left after making everyone else's but also for carb reasons. I took the tops of the kids carrots that I'd cut off to make them fit in their bento.
Japantown flag. Need a better pic next time.
Close up of Emma's bento for today. I love the little berry buckets! The mini cookies are at Trader Joes and work so well for Bento and portion control. I'm hoping to get better at the carrot flowers :&
Victoria by her Naruto themed Anime.
I would not let the girls leave SF without seeing the Golden Gate for the first time. We did not even get out of the car though it was so busy. They probably have some better pics than me, I was at a traffic stop. I of course got the usual question: "Why is it red if it's the Golden Gate?" :)
Unfortunately, this lovely Japantown fan is under a bypass and therefore in the dark!
Loved this mini structure inside the mall.
Emma loved the Sanrio (makers of Hello Kitty) store for it's candy. They both would have loved this store in their Hello Kitty days. They secretly admitted to still loving her.
Close up of the new sauce squeezers. They are so cute.
Victoria holding one of her favorite Anime characters. Mommy was documenting for gift ideas.
Okay, I was in scarf heaven for a moment....I did not buy one but omg...kid in a candy store you know?
One of our first pictures actually, arriving at Daiso Japan, the main reason for our trip. Fabulously fun store!!! Amazing deals.
All the kids Bento for this morning. Shrimp on the bottom level, others on the top.
Another great onsie I wanted to snag.
Rasberry bucket close up. Using the new food pics. This is Caedmon's Bento.
The poo onsies: "Grumpy Poo", "Stinky Poo", and "Smarty Poo". All supposed to be actual poo. Ah, funny.
Her first sushi lunch out from home.
Close up of those adorable cookies. The carrot shows you how mini they are.
The assembled line up: Emma's, Caed's, and Victoria's . Remember the bagged picture was further up in the blog post lol? That should be the next one...oh, well.
Winding down our day...
It was a blast!
Hope you enjoyed our sharing. We look forward to going back. There is so much to see in life, it's a grand thing.
Here is my amateur video of our Haul.
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