Yurigahara koen

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Sorry it's been a while....... a long while. We are now in our last week and after an unintentional hiatus from blogging, I feel the urge to share the backlog of photos! We have been busy cramming in the last things with my dad, busy with lab work (Kevin anyway), busy with planning a business (yeah, I'm nuts I know), and cursing the never ending rain! Argh! Seriously, enough already with the rain!!

So here's a glimpse of the past... It's a picture heavy post and I'm just gonna split this into parts, ok? :)

I feel generic using the same line but sue me ;)

 

The rest of Yurigahara koen. 

Before we even ventured to find the muscari walk, we stopped to eat lunch. My dad bought a whole fish from the supermarket near the subway station. :D We ate under a patch of blooming wisteria. Beautiful! 

After the wisteria, we found muscari walk. 

Then when we left that slice of heaven, we just meandered and found the flower shop and some gardens. 

These hanging baskets outside the flower shop were some of the most amazing I've ever seen!

Tulips and pansies. 

You see why this place was heaven for me, right?!

 

There was a conservatory/greenhouse but we opted to skip it and instead we just got a coffee and ice cream from the vending machine in the front. 

We passed this tree, the rose walk (no blooms) and found the lilac collection. 

 

My dad and I were impressed by this tree.

 

Then we walked through this little herb garden into the heather garden and rock garden. 

 

I'm afraid to say, this is it for yurigahara koen pictures. For now. The place was gorgeous, so excited to go again tomorrow! 

I'll leave you with a picture from the fountain at another corner of the park (which was paid entry of about $1.50), the world garden. (also really cool).

 

Muscari walk

Hello? 

Is anyone there?

I have pictures to share! 

Sorry it's been a while....... a long while. We are now in our last week and after an unintentional hiatus from blogging, I feel the urge to share the backlog of photos! We have been busy cramming in the last things with my dad, busy with lab work (Kevin anyway), busy with planning a business (yeah, I'm nuts I know), and cursing the never ending rain! Argh! Seriously, enough already with the rain!!

So here's a glimpse of the past... It's a picture heavy post and I'm just gonna split this into parts, ok? :) 

My dad and I took the Toho line to the end stop and walked to Yurigahara koen (famed for its lilies) for a fun day of picnics and flower photography. I filled my 16gb memory card up there...and could have taken more! What followed next was devastating. I thought I had transferred the photos to the computer, formatted the card...and realized half the pictures were missing. NIGHTMARE! Kevin was amazing and found a way to recover the images so phew, but now they're on a hard drive he takes to school so ...we're just gonna have to forget about those. GOOD NEWS: we are going to yurigahara tomorrow so I'll take more... and maybe we will have time to compare the difference of 3-4 weeks. ;) 

Long story short (I am so wordy, it's impossible for me to cut to the chase), Yurigahara koen = heaven paradise fantasy land. 

There is a nook of the park called muscari walk. I about died.

Blooming apple trees. Seas of grape hyacinth/muscari. Pockets of tulips. 

Heaven.

Elisabeth was unimpressed. Might be the only time I've questioned whether she's mine. (just kidding ;))

 

 There was an old mill or tower or something that you could go up. We did later...

Such variety of tulips, I loved them all.

 

The park has a little train that goes around it. Cute!

 

 I felt like I was in a Monet.

Also, that guy in my picture. Thanks for not moving. Grr...

 Such color. 

This is the view from the little tower. Nerve wracking to go up the steel spiral staircase since it was narrow and scary. Up top, it's kind of open so I snapped the photos and went down praying no one would come across me since passing on the narrow steps would have been awful. Sure enough, a couple passed me but they weren't quite as terrified as me so they got the narrow end of the step while I hugged the rail. I never knew I was so scared of heights! 

 It was hard to leave and definitely was on the top 5 favorites of places I've been. Maybe even ever.