The Birthday Weekend in Ibaraki


I started last month with a weekend with my sisters in Ibaraki.

When you have a sister living in Chiba, another in Ibaraki, and you in Tokyo...it's going to take at least a weekend to spend quality time together. Especially when it involves a special birthday!

My baby sister turned twenty in June. TWENTY!!!

Hard to believe that she's officially an adult now (twenty is the official age of adulthood in Japan). I'm still trying to get my mind around how in the world she grew up so fast. At the same time, I'm so incredibly proud of the strong and caring person that she has become. 

She's busy with exams and classes in her second year of nursing school, but we dragged her away for a sleepover weekend and, most importantly, a birthday cake with candles!

You may know our family is big on candles. We believe that a cake is just a regular cake unless it has candles. Then and only then is it a birthday cake. We also tend to lean towards as many candles as your age (should be interesting what happens as we get older...).

We had no plans but to be lazy , which is sometimes the best kind of weekend when you're together. Most of the photos are my view from the car, to and from the bus station and Y's apartment, but you get the idea.

Yay for sister weekends and birthdays! x

















How was your weekend? Have you ever been to Ibaraki?

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