Sunny day took me jog this morning

When I wake up at 6.30 this morning, I found that it was sunny and calm. I suddenly decided to go jogging. I went to the Kinuta Park. When I go to the park, go around a jogging course there and come back home, it is about 5 km and takes 30 to 45 minutes. When I arrived at the park, I felt good and refreshed. I though to jog more frequently. However, when I was working at office, I felt sleepy. I took coffee a log to avoid sleeping.

Keiji Suzuki

I watched documentary TV program which introducing Keiji Suzuki's current life and thought after the Beijing Olympic. Suzuki is a Japanese Judo player and a gold medalist in Judo over 100kg at the Athene Olympic in 2004. When he participated in the Beijing Olympic last year, he was expected to win the second gold medal and played a role as captain of Japanese team. However, he lost at first-round and failed to get a medal. After he returned to Japan, he was criticized and said that he must have retired. I have not known what he was doing now and how he was thinking about his future career. I could not imagine the life of champion who scrape bottom.
Though its TV program, I found that he decided to continue playing Judo and started to training for the next London Olympic. However, it is not easy for him, because many young players are getting stronger and he get out of shape.

After I watched his good personality, honest attribute and his strong effort to overcome his weakness, I became a fun of Suzuki. I hope that he make a strong comeback!

His blog is below, but it is written in Japanese.
http://ameblo.jp/suzukikeiji/

Wikipedia in English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Suzuki

Georgia Aquarium

Because I had a time for sightseeing today, I went to the Georgia Aquarium. There were many kinds of fishes in the huge tank. It was so impressive!
There were many children and babies. I felt I wanted to come here with my family and take a lot of pictures.

Tomorrow, I will wake up at 4 am and leave Atlanta at 7 am. Because I ate huge meat and drunk a lot every day, I believe I got weight. I should diet after I get back to Japan.

Big Hamburger

I ate a big hamburger for lunch. It tasted good! But I was afraid that I might get weight during my trip.

Big steak!

I had a dinner with my colleagues from our US subsidiaries. I ate a big steak! It was very nice! I like an American size of stake. But soup and sweets were too big for me.

Came to Atlanta

I came to Atlanta to attend the BIO Conference.
I am staying Marriott Marquis. It is a big and convenient hotel. Its design is impressive, so I took the attached picture.

Picnic at Kinuta Park

Because it was warm and sunny today, I went to Kinuta Park for a picnic with my wife and my baby. Kinuta Park is located near my house and it takes about 15 minutes on food.
There were many people today, but it was not crowded because Kinuta Park is very large and has a lot of spaces for playing.
We had a lunch under the shade of a tree and took a nap.

After the picnic, I got my hair cut shorter than usual, because it is getting warmer and warmer.

Fruits vinegar for drinking

I bought two kinds of fruits vinegar, grapefruit and mango, for drinking. The fruits vinegar is less sour than general vinegar to drink easier.
Because I like alcohol very much, I drink alcohol like beer, wine, Sake and wisky every night. However, for my health, I drink fruits vinegar instead of alcohol to give my liver a rest at least twice a week.
Japanese people knows vinegar is very good for their health and there are many kinds of vinegar for drinking in Japan. We mix vinegar with wather, soda or milk to drink easier.
One bottle of the fruits vinegar is about 1500 yen. It is more expensive than general ones, but more cheaper than liquor.

Lunch at the Chinese restaurant 'SENCE'

I took my wife and my mother in law to the Chinese restaurant ‘SENCE’ for lunch. I sometimes have a business lunch there with my clients because it is in Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tokyo located near my company. I think it is one of the best Chinese restaurants as far as I know. You can enjoy not only nice cooking but also good view of Tokyo from 34th floor. I would like to offer my family fancy time.

Picture is a fruit cocktail with red wine sauce which I ate in Senbikiya. Senbikiya is at 2nd floor of the same building and is a famous fruits shop. You can eat a fruits parfait there. I also recommend you to take it.

Lunch course at SENCE is from 5000 yen.
Fruits parfait of SENBIKIYA is from 1300 yen.

Houto, local food in Yamanashi

We ate ‘Houto’ in the picture on our way back from Yamanashi. Houto is traditional local food in Yamanashi and is thick noodle with plenty of vegetables such as squash, carrot and potato.

Mt. Fuji from Yamanashi prefecture

Because we had a noting to do in the evening, we went to Yamanashi prefecture to see a ‘Shibazakura’, flowers look like cherry blossoms growing on the ground. However, we had a heavy traffic jam and had to give up getting there. Because fee of express highway is cut down to stimulate the economy in Japan, there was heavier traffic jam than usual. We could not see beautiful flowers but could see a beautiful Mt. Fuji in the picture.

Fried meat of kangaroo

I ate a fried meat of kangaroo in the picture. I found it on a menu at ‘Izakaya’, Japanese style pub. We don’t have culture to eat kangaroo in Japan and I don’t know why they were supplying it. I hesitated to eat kangaroo at first because I usually watch jumping ones in Australia on TV. But I was getting to try it. After I ate it, I thought it was not bad.