{"id":266,"date":"2013-10-28T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-03-22T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:49:15","slug":"a-weekend-with-the-in-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend with the In-Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan’s dad and stepmom came to visit Tokyo which is pretty awesome! His dad was just passing through on his way to Beijing for business, but his stepmom is here for a few more days.<\/p>\n

It’s neat to have family come visit. My mom will be visiting Japan, but after I’m no longer living here, and my sister isn’t in a position to visit, as her son is still a baby. The other neat part is that Dan’s father lived here for a few years before Dan was born, and still knows Japanese and a general sense of what’s where and getting around on the trains. <\/p>\n

On Saturday we participated in a Moffitt time-honored tradition: drinking. We pub crawled through Omote-sando and Shibuya, and finished the night in Shinjuku. But we had to start the day with a bowl of ramen from one of our favorite restaurants!
\nDan with Ann and Bob
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\nOur first stop was Brimmer Beer Box<\/a> where we shared a pitcher and sat outside. It was such a nice fall day! After that we went to Craft Heads<\/a> in Shibuya. I hadn’t been so I was excited to try it, and even more excited to see an ale I’ve been dying to try was on the menu!<\/p>\n

My Pumpking. If Thanksgiving\/ fall had a flavor, it would be this beer.
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While at the bar, Ann, a connoisseur\/ importer\/ exporter of wine, taught us the way to properly toast someone. Eye contact is key!
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\nWe went on to a pub called Aldgate in Shibuya, and down the street to a yakiniku (Korean BBQ) restaurant for dinner. We wrapped up the night meeting some friends of Ann’s at the Tokyo Park Hyatt. I love their lounge! Great drinks and a beautiful view of the town. I still can’t believe this is my town sometimes.
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Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures from Sunday, but we went out to Hakone and then had dinner at a tempura restaurant. Nothing too special. My running did suffer this weekend (I was supposed to run 7 miles Saturday and 10 miles Sunday), but we got caught up in the fun of having visitors in town and didn’t do either runs. So luckily when I woke up today (Monday) I busted out 7 miles, and it wasn’t terribly painful! I’ll get my 10 miler out of the way tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a fun week! Ann is still here and we’ll spend time together Tuesday, then Wednesday I’m meeting girlfriends for a day at Tokyo Disneyland! Thursday Dan and I are having friends over for some Halloween fun, and Friday our running group is having a costume run. I love Halloween!<\/p>\n

I even had time to make a couple cards last week!
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And now, to close with another Penny picture, this is what I woke up to Sunday morning. Yeah, no run was happening, I just stayed in bed with my kitty!
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Dan’s dad and stepmom came to visit Tokyo which is pretty awesome! His dad was just passing through on his way to Beijing for business, but his stepmom is here for a few more days. It’s neat to have family come visit. My mom will be visiting Japan, but after I’m no longer living here, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[416,110,55,181,11,73,130,187],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beer","tag-cricut","tag-family","tag-fitness","tag-japan","tag-ramen","tag-running","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}