Sunshine In My Window: Strawberry Picking and Irago Tour

After a week long of gloomy weather, it was really nice and sunny today that I did 3 rounds of washing! I have been really good today~putting the house in order! We have been camping in the living room since winter started and now I'm getting a bit tired looking at the house..,that most of the time is messy...with futons, blankets and pillows right in the middle of the house! Nak masuk tidur dalam bilik, it's freezing cold in there, and daytime, Umair will want to have his nap, so I have to keep the futons handy in the living room!-Sigh!- Anyway, today with the house straightened up, and the laundry neatly folded in the closet..,it has been a productive day! So now, I could sit here and update this blog of mine! hihi!

Last Saturday, all of us the Malaysian ICTs made a day trip to a strawberry park somewhere near Toyohashi and made a tour around Irago Peninsula after that. Kak Mimi and family jumped in the ride with us in our Estima (don't mind the rim please...I knowww it's ugly! We are in the process of changing it by the way!)

and Asmah and family went in Zura's car. We left home around 9 a.m and after 80 km of travelling, we arrived at the Atsumi Seaside Floral Strawberry Farm approximately 2 hours later.

I was definitely excited off-course! Been waiting for this trip for ages! This is us upon arrival at the farm~posing with the car first! Hihi!

The strawberries were really huge and sweet!!! Puas hati sangat-sangat coming here!

We forgot to take along Hershey's Chocolate Dip with us, so we just had to make do with the condensed milk supplied at the farm. Not that it wasn't sweet enough actually...,it was just for the fun of it! It was weird for me actually... I never knew that you eat strawberry that way here in this country! Normally in England, we used to eat it with whipped cream...that too, supplied by the farm! We spent about an hour eating and snapping pictures at the farm...sampai sakit perut!

Tried to eat as much as we could so that it would be worth it after paying 1500 yen (RM60) for the entrance fee. After eating about 10 strawberries, i was already full...dah ler buah besar2, ...macam mana nak sampai 45 nie? (that was our target actually!), tapi memang tak boleh! After eating the 11th piece, I memang rasa cam nak muntah dah! maybe because we dipped them with condensed milk kot! I forced myself anyhow eating the smaller ones to make it 15, so at least it came up to 100 yen sebijik! Okay laa kan! hahha! This is us at the vegetable patch (cabbage, broccoli, spring onion mostly)..

Along the way to the Irago Crystal Porte, we stopped for a picnic lunch near a Colza field,

(we brought some packed lunch~left overs from last night's soto dinner actually!)~while snapping pictures around the brilliant yellow meadow.

Spring is definitely here! Some local tourists stopped by for some pictures as well...probably amused looking at us having a picnic there!~Dorang datang for snapping pictures jer, kitaorang siap picnic lagi kat situ!

At the Crystal Porte..,we just took a stroll along the beach to the light house.

What began as a pleasant stroll turned out to be quite an 'adventurous' one actually!
As we went around the cliff, the wind suddenly became stronger and we felt like we were pushed by the wind to fly! We couldn't even walk straight! I had to hold on to my scarf (otherwise, memang terbang ker laut laa jawabnyer!), and everyone's hair was going in every directions!

It was just lucky that there was no big waves coming to us~otherwise we would have been miserably wet and cold!

After the windy excitement, we continued with our journey to a small mountain nearby...to see a kincir angin that stood alone on that hill! (There were so many of them in that town, but there was only one up the hill).