I got carried away.....

My colleague gave it to me.

Sorry... I've just turned to 34.......

A little old Minnie Mouse. Hahaha...

Tokyo Disney Sea

That was annual trip for our orchestra.

We had a recording in Urayasu which is near the Disney resort.

After the recording, we stayed a hotel in the Disney resort and had a party.

The next day, we went to the Disney Sea.

I didn't think I could enjoy it because I wasn't interested in Disney very much.

But....

I enjoyed very much~~~!

I'm 34 years old~~~~~!

November 10th was my birthday.

I had a recording that day and I was glad that my colleagues told me "Happy Birthday" 

And when I got home, my roommate had prepared cake for me♪

When I was in NY, I realized that I could make free time for myself even though I was busy. It's up to me.

And every experience I got from the free time made me open-minded.

I hope I enjoy my 34 years old. 

Yes, "No day but today"

Nice to get old, Yeah~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!

Chestnut Chips

My colleague gave me chestnut chips. 

He made it!!

peeling chestnut is very hard, but the taste is great!

I was impressed with the taste. I know some kind of chips. Potato, banana, vegetables... but I think this is the best chips I've ever eaten :-)

He told me the chips is good match for champagne or beer♪

Family Concert 2

One audience sent the picture to us.

We didn't know how we looked until we saw this picture.

We just played on the dark stage with small lights on the music stands.

A lot of families came to the concert♪

Thank you so much! 

Family Concert

All trumpet players played more than 2 kinds of trumpets in the concert.

I played 3!

B♭trumpet, cornet, flugel horn.

It seems a music shop:-)

The Tokyo Tower

I was walking to the subway station after the Siena's recording. And when I looked to right unconsciously,  the close-up of lighted tower was there.

Though I only had a cell phone camera, It looked beautiful!

Recording2

I had another recording in Siena Wind Orchestra as an extra player on another day. I used to play in this orchestra, so I was glad to play with them again.

recording1

Hi!

It's been a loooong time. How are you?

It's getting cold in Tokyo(>_<) I'm happy when I'm wrapped up in comforter in the morning. I like this feeling.

Our orchestra had a recording. We recorded some film musics and Japanese pop musics.

We usually use recording studios when we record pop music, and play with head phones. But this time we recorded in the concert hall. It was a little difficult to make a good ensemble in the concert hall when we record with drum set. We had time lag even though the drum set was set at the center of the orchestra. 

But we are used to that kind of situation, so everything went smoothly.

The recording engineer was really good and he lives in my neighborhood. We drink every time when we work together, so we drank till next morning after the recording.....

River fish!

We took a break and had lunch at the Myojin Pond which is on the way to the parking lot.

We ate japanese noodle and river fish [Iwana (chars)] which were caught from the river flowing right over there.

There was a fire place to grill the fish.

Lunch time for monkeys!!

We ran into a lot of monkeys when we came back to Kamikochi area!

An endless stream of monkeys came from somewhere and they started eating.

They didn't care about climbers as if nobody there, because they know no one feed the monkeys. That's a important climber's manner for nature.

 

Frozen rocks and plants!

Next morning, all of rocks were frozen, and we had to climb down on the slippy way. That was dangerous!

You can't walk without sticks!

Colored leaves

Beautiful trees, Byobu-Iwa (a wall of rock) , and Hodaka mountains.

Karasawa hut

That was heard to climb up and down!

But we can't see such a beautiful view unless effort.

A mountain cottage and the views from there.

A morning glow and the morning moon. 

Mountaineering

Autumn!

It's time to go out!

My uncle and aunt took me to Kamikochi which is one of the most scenic spot in Japan.

There are many beautiful mountains, and the whole mountains is ablaze with autumn leaves.

My uncle and I climbed from Kamikochi to Karasawa (2200m) and stayed there(my aunt went back home without climbing).

That was amazing!!

A conductor and I

I'm having a regular concert of our orchestra tomorrow, and I'm playing J. francaix's solo piece.

We took a picture after the rehearsal♪

He is a wonderful conductor Kazumasa Watanabe.

I'm looking forward to playing with him, but a little bit nervous~~~.fufufu...

memory of my parents's shop

I used to go back to our fancy goods store [Andy] after finished elementally school everyday, instead of my house. 

Sometimes I helped my parents displaying merchandise and cleaning in the store, sometimes I did my homework there and part time workers helped me. I could choose anything I want when my birthday and christmas day every year. I liked Andy and I liked spending time there.

After my mother passed away, my father closed the store and he changed his job. That was 26 years ago. And my father passed away 4 years ago. 

Today, I went to the place after 26 years. I've known there is a beauty parlor there, so I had my hair cut. There was a big stuffed snoopy here,  there were hello kitty goods and Disney goods there, there was a counter over there..... I was remembering about our store while I was cut my hair.

Who is thi~~~~s!!??

I was walking behind him, and noticed....
Arms and legs grow from Tuba~~~!!

That's funny!

Quintet♪

We'll have a brass quintet concert next morning, start at 9:20 am !!

It's very early because we'll play for elementally school students. 

I hope I can wake up next morning.....

Sukiyaki~♪

Her name is Ayako.  A flute player in my orchestra and good cook♪

A clarinet player Ayako(same name as flutist!!) and I went to her house to talk about points of our next regular concert. We are soloists of the concert, also we are editors of our orchestra's mail magazine. so we talked and made article about that by ourselves.  After we finished work, we ate Sukiyaki which is Ayako's original.

That was unique, because she put tomato, olive oil, basil and garlic in it.

Though It looked like Italian food, taste was Sukiyaki. And that was good!