Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from the Drapers! I never did get around to sending cards this year (along with many other things), but we did get some cute pictures taken. Ashley took these for us on a little private beach around Thanksgiving time.

Here's a picture of cute little Avery during her Holiday Performance at school. It was adorable! (the theme was suppose to be festive or blue and white)

Kyoto Trip

At the beginning of November, Ashley (my new teacher friend) and I took a trip to Kyoto for the weekend. It was so fun! We ate lots of authentic, yummy food, saw a ton of cool things, and experienced REAL fall for the first time in several years. It was nice to do some tours I knew would be difficult with the kids, but I sure was happy to be home with the family. I'd never left them overnight before!

Eating at a Japanese restaurant when we arrived...cooking the meet ourselves at the table.

Day 1: All day tour of Kyoto

I loved the fall leaves!

Yummy chinese restaurant

 Day 2: Bike tour around the city - a little rainy, but fun!

We took a couple shopping breaks.=)

We caught a glimpse of a wedding.

This is the Geisha district where the Geisha live.

The Geisha school

Yummy wine and food after the bike ride....we also did some shopping that night.

The last day we got to make some sushi before catching our flight.

We rolled it all our selves!

We saw a geisha when we were walking behind the restaurant.

The restaurant was a fancy old house that use to belong to a very wealthy family....the grounds were beautiful!