Christmas trip to Canada

Ayako and I started off our journey to Canada by leaving our house at 6 am, driving for an hour to catch a bus that dropped us off in Tokyo 4 hours later. We took a one-hour train ride to Narita airport and waited three hours to get on our plane. Twelve hours later, we were met by my parents at the airport and two hours later, we were in Peterborough. Needless to say, some jetlag had built up in us and took three or four nights before we were really on Canadian time.

We were just relaxing and wrapping presents on Christmas Eve and then were up on Christmas day to see what had been left in our stockings:
Here's Mom and Dad getting ready to open their stockings:
And Ayako enjoying seeing what she got in her stocking:
There were lots of presents under the tree, but we were waiting for Barbara, Jason and Justin to arrive before we started opening them:
They arrived in the afternoon and Justin got lots of presents that he could try on:
And put in his mouth:
Here's son and dad trying on the hats that they received for Christmas:
And Dad and Mom opening their presents:
Ayako loved getting lots of presents that were related to cooking:
And Jason was happy to have some more Lego to add to his collection:
In the evening, the Scotts came over for dinner. Ayako was very happy to have a Canadian Christmas dinner with us:
Here's me helping light the Christmas pudding for dessert:
Things were pretty relaxed on Boxing Day, so we had time to take more photos of Justin:

The 27th of December was Mom and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary. I was out in the morning to clear the path for the three waves of people that would be visiting our house that day:
Before the event, we took a good group shot together:
And then got a nice shot of Mom and Dad with Justin before giving them a anniversary gift:
The party was busy from early afternoon till the night time with the relatives in the first wave, the Toronto crowd in the second wave and the Peterborough crowd in the third wave. It was a good idea to have a caterer do the food for us:
We did some shopping in Peterborough on the 28th and then on the 29th, Ayako and I headed down to Toronto. We did some shopping there as well and I also showed her around the Annex area where I used to live. Here I am in from of the house I live in on Huron Street:
We then went to Union Station to catch a train to Dundas to meet Robin and her family:
Here are Grace (2 years old) and Adam (5 years old) playing on some toys in their basement:
It was our first time to meet Grace and she enjoyed playing with us a lot. Here she is with Dad (Insung) on her toy:
On December 30th, we all went to Ikea to look around and buy a few things. In the evening, Robin took Grace and us to Niagara Falls:
The was a lot of mist which felt like walking through rain on the walkway:
The mist then froze on us which made it feel quite cold. Luckily we could still show some good smiles for a picture:
On New Year's Eve, we got a train to Ajax to stay with Barbara, Jason and Justin for a couple of days. In the evening, Tony and Steph came over with their one-month old baby, Luciano:
Ayako enjoyed having Canadian-Chinese food that night:
Since there were two babies in the house, it was a fairly quiet New Year's Eve, and we were up in good time the next day. We got to spend more time with Justin. Here's Ayako enjoying that fresh baby smell:
We went out to lunch at East Side Mario's. This was Justin's first time eating in a restaurant:
Here's Justin eyeing our waitress after touch her bum. Justin definitely liked giving cute smiles whenever he looked at a woman:
In the afternoon, we relaxed at home and had time to take more photos with Justin:

On the 2nd of January, Mom and Dad came over and we all went out to dinner at The Keg. This was already Justin's second time out at a restaurant:
We all ate lots and Ayako especially liked the large brownie sundae she ordered for dessert, even if she couldn't finish it. Good thing for doggy bags:
We returned to Peterborough after that. On the 3rd of January, Ayako enjoyed going to a museum and doing some shopping with Mom while I stayed home and started packing. In the evening, we could enjoy a fire in the fireplace and watching the movie "Julie and Julia" that Ayako received for Christmas:

All of a sudden it was the 4th of January and we were up early in the morning to drive down to the airport for our flight back to Japan. I had some time in the car to open some birthday presents. At least we didn't have to wait long at the airport and the flight back was a bit easier. The two weeks flew by, but I'm glad we could see lots of relatives and friends and we could spend some quality time with my parents and Barbara, Jason and of course, Justin.