me jane 0 Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Came up in another thread but these links might be useful. Info on train stations in and around Tokyo with lifts and escalators. Tokyo (JR) in Japanese http://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/stations/ Tokyo (Private lines) in English http://www.wakakoma.org/aj/map/etokyo01.pdf Yokohama (All) in English http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/eng/tourism/walking/1100.html Link to post Share on other sites
girl with a beard 0 Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 He's really cute me jane! Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Bump for Sir Jib Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 We went to the hospital today and the kid is wild! On the ultrasound, he's flippin around, flashing the shaka, and basically having a blast in there. We're still quite a ways away, but getting excited! and i'm glad I'm not carrying - There's no way I could have a kid...i'd miss a season of snowboarding, that's unacceptable! Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Feels like I missed a season of everything! Wouldn't change it but glad it's over! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 my lady missed 2 winters, 02 & 04 but got to enjoy the summers before and between and after.. all a matter of planning and.... Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 My lady missed last season but I didn't. This coming season may mean we both miss a season unless I can persuade my wife that it's worthwhile taking the maid aswell. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Some of the resorts have childcare, Thursday. Haven't figured out which ones yet, but I'll post them on this thread as I find them! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Hope they cater for 10 month olds Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Why not leave the kids at home with the maid? Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 I think most of them will take babies over 3 months. Mini Me Tarzan will be just over a year so he should be okay. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Maybe FT could open a daycare at his place!? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 can't risk Fatts teaching him bad spelling at such an impressionable age. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Bring the maid or call a boys trip. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Soubs, that's one option I was thinking, but the wiife cannot bear to be away from him for more than 22 minutes 34 seconds. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Aha, called a boys trip last season, can't pull that one again. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 She's got you by the 'nads mate! Life's too short to miss a season. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 I know you are half-joking but do you think mothers have a different kind of relationship with their babies? I leave MMT with Mrs Tarzan in law or the nanny for work 5 or 6 days a week and put him to bed almost as soon as I get home so the only time I spend with him is on my day off. I don't think I would want to go off skiing for that day and leave him behind even if someone offered to babysit for free. I think that he's only this age once and I only have one chance to enjoy it. By the time he's 10 he will be trying his hardest to get away from me so I have to make the most of these few years. The snow isn't going to grow up and start chasing girls down the pub! Having said that, I'm certainly not a stay at home mum. He's old enough now (8 mths) to come along and do most of what I do but I just have to take things a bit slower. A few less hours skiing each day, hiking lower mountains with him in his carrier and building sandcastles rather than diving with laser-equipped sharks for a few years is worth every minute. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Throw the little bugger in a backpak and bring him along on the mountain! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Different perspectives Jane. Baby stays with us 24x7, wife and maid at home. Wife will soon go back to the rat race leaving maid to look after our life's reason to live. Even now mother can't bear to be away from him for more than an hour, god knows what she'll get upto when she's at the office. As we can't be without him, we have to take him skiing. I'll probably be on the mountain hours at a time and baby and mum on the family slopes for a while in the mornings, then more in the afternoon. Nice easy time they'll have. It's true, life is too short to be missing seasons. More so when baby gets indoctrinated. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I took No1 skiing in a backpack whe he was 3. He hated it. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 soubs that's understandable by the way you ski. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I'm rubbish. Still ski better than him though Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 The ski schools take kids from at least 3 or 4. Damn. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted July 17, 2007 Author Share Posted July 17, 2007 I think the age is cos kids need to be toilet trained and able to communicate well enough before they can go to ski school. If little Thursday is a fast developer you may be okay by 2 1/2 at the earliest. Well, took MMT to Oiso Long beach last week. It was freezing cold and very windy cos of the typhoon so infant hypothermia was more of a worry than him catching anything from microbes in the pool! The pool was deserted and the water very choppy! We went in the water quite a few times though and he wore my neopropene t-shirt tied at the waist on top of his swim suit! He loved it and I abandoned his inflatable thing after the first day cos he kept climbing off it to get in the water! He tired himself out so much he fell asleep half way around the pool on two of the days! It was pretty cool having a 300m pool to ouselves though. He probably thinks that swimming involves freezing water, typhoons and wetsuits now! Guess he's gearing up to be a surfer! If anyone has a toddler wetsuit (up to about age 2) they want to sell, PM me Photobucket is doing maintenance so I'll post a few pics when it's back online. Link to post Share on other sites
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