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  • We're taking advantage of a special holiday to spend a night in Tokyo as a family.

  • The rain was constant all night long,

  • but when you're with the ones you love, there's always some fun to be had and plenty of new things to see.

  • We go shopping,

  • play a Japanese arcade,

  • have a pajama party

  • and check out a great aquarium.

  • Come along with us as we take a family holiday in Tokyo.

  • [Life in Japan Theme Song]

  • Beccster Booster! Whatcha working on?

  • Kanji test. Kanji test today!

  • So Becca, what was yesterday at church?

  • Crazy hair day. Crazy hair day!

  • Did you get all of the crazy hair color out?

  • No! No? It's still kind of in there!

  • I got mine out.

  • Momma chan got hers out!

  • She only spent 10 minutes washing her hair!

  • The shampoo got so blue! I know.

  • Like when I was washing it "What?! Blue!"

  • Daddy accidentally burnt his bagel.

  • Tomorrow is a holiday. It's culture day, so we're going to explore some Japanese culture!

  • How's the Japanese studying going?

  • Difficult, you know.

  • I'm home!

  • Joshua, your sensei said you did something today awesome. What did you do?

  • I drank Barley Tea.

  • You drank some Barley Tea for the first time! How was it?

  • Good.

  • I think there's a statue in my house.

  • Let me go poke it and see what happens.

  • Oh no, it's starting to make noise.

  • Big hug! Hi, my little boy!

  • Are you ready to go to a hotel?

  • Yes?! OK, let's change your clothes!

  • We're going to the hotel, right?

  • Let's go pick up Becca and Anna!

  • Hey, welcome!

  • Are you guys excited? Yes, so excited! Too excited!

  • Oh, that's so huge! Oh my!

  • That is a hotel.

  • Alright guys

  • Exciting!

  • Look at that, Dude!

  • OK, stay right there!

  • It's going to be like a big slumber party in here!

  • Hey, look at this! 1, 2, 3, 4!

  • They even give us pajamas.

  • Two pajamas for us.

  • And look, oh!

  • Night has fallen on the city.

  • We've come back to the car, it's raining tonight.

  • So we're going to go find our parking spot,

  • And then hopefully be able to do some things inside here.

  • Right guys? Yea man.

  • And go to a mall! Well the girls are excited.

  • Oh look at this! My goodness.

  • It's intense.

  • McDonalds! Oh, French fries!

  • Joshua just wants the French fries, huh?

  • So McDonalds it is, huh?

  • It's a special day off. What's the holiday tomorrow? Anna, you told me.

  • What is it?

  • Culture Day

  • Public Holiday

  • Yea, I said that, but...

  • Mommy says "culture," Becca says "holiday," I just don't know which is which.

  • I need water!

  • You need water?

  • Hey Daddy, you should put your hoodie on.

  • Oh look, it's green, let's go.

  • A big, humongous store.

  • Hey! Are there so many cars?

  • Yea, look! Holy cow.

  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...

  • Aw, look at the cutie cutie socks. Anna-Cakes, what's your favorite one?

  • This cute guy.

  • Joshua, what did you find?

  • What is it?

  • It's Mario driving his cart, huh?

  • Watch this!

  • There's only a mirror, right? But if you open this...

  • Oh! Did I shoot you, Luigi?!

  • Go Luigi, go! Oh, good job, Luigi!

  • Good job, Luigi! Oh, you passed me!

  • These girls got good rhythm.

  • The girls' got rhythm.

  • Wait for it...

  • My goodness! Walking through the rain! Ewww.

  • So tonight we had big plans to go to Tokyo Mega Illumination to see all the lights,

  • but it's just raining too much! So what do you do when it rains so much?

  • You have a pajama party!

  • Oh My Goodness Gracious!

  • The pajamas fit? Even you, Joshua?!

  • Let's show Daddy.

  • I'm going to show... Whoa, Sarah!

  • Pajama Party time! OK, not so loud!

  • Pajama Party time! Daddy, put your pajamas on.

  • Oh, I don't think it'll fit, but I'll try, OK?

  • Daddy! Daddy, watch!

  • Everybody over here, ready?

  • Daddy on the bottom here.

  • Ho ho, wait a second!

  • I'm going to sit by Daddy.

  • Everybody say "Pajama!"

  • Pajama! Pajama Party 2020!

  • Yeah!

  • Shhhh!

  • We don't want to get kicked out of the Pajama Party, no!

  • What do you guys think of Pajama Party 2020?

  • Huh, Beccster? It's good.

  • Pretty cool?

  • This is the first time I saw you wearing pajamas.

  • Look at Joshua. Joshua's wearing the same thing!

  • He's like barely...

  • Like barely. You're swimming in them, huh Dude?

  • Watch this! I can't find it, Mommy!

  • 3, 2... Hey Becca, where's my case?

  • Hey Sarah, move, move, move, move

  • Watch! 3, 2, 1!

  • And momma the supervisor, from her queen throne here.

  • The next morning

  • A nice little horsey.

  • What are you guys drawing here?

  • Octopus. Octopus?

  • That's good, isn't it?

  • We're going to be so sad, don't eat us! Don't eat us!

  • I also going to draw my name.

  • And then I'm going to draw you!

  • Look! It looks... Sunny!

  • Even sunny, huh?!

  • I'm not sure about the sun. It's bright though.

  • Yea, it is. It's clearing off.

  • That's pretty cool! Praise the Lord!

  • Well the hotel was a fun, fun time, huh guys?

  • Bye bye hotel.

  • Bye, bye hotel, let's go explore now?

  • Let's go exploring! OK, let's go! Here we go!

  • And then we're going back?!

  • We're not going home yet, No, we've got a lot of fun stuff to do yet today.

  • Oh my goodness! Ruth is happyshe found another Super Bookoff Bazaar.

  • Oh boy!

  • While the girls are shopping, we are waiting for our food, right?

  • Here's your waffle.

  • Waffle! Waffle!

  • Oh yum!

  • Joshua

  • Anna, with her new headband that she got at the 300... 100 yen store.

  • It was a 100 yen store? The 3 coin store, huh? No, the 3 coin store.

  • Oh yeah! Good? Good. American Waffles are good!

  • Mommy wants to buy a waffle maker. Oh, Daddy approves.

  • Youngest to the oldest.

  • Oh, youngest to oldest?

  • Sure enough.

  • Sarah, where'd your food go?

  • I already ate it! You already ate it!

  • Oh my goodness! Were you just the hungriest?!

  • And Joshua! Chocolate chunk scone!

  • Yes! What's it taste like?

  • Like...

  • Chocolate.

  • Kids could care less where you are, they just want a good playground.

  • And food. And food, and they're happy.

  • I'm the same way: give me a good cup of coffee, I don't care where I'm at!

  • I don't want to stay too long here, they're going to get soaked.

  • OK, let's go!

  • OK, well we had some fun shopping.

  • Now we're going to go to the Aquarium.

  • The aquarium! Aquarium!

  • To see fishies. Alright.

  • That should be fun, huh?

  • I want to make a new friend, like I did in the SeaWorld episode.

  • Oh that's right. I made a friend, I want to make another friend.

  • Alright, let's see what kind of friend you'll make this time.

  • Because it's a holiday, there was huge line.

  • The guard said maybe 40, 50 minutes just to wait to get in to park.

  • So we found another parking place real close on the other side of the park. And now we're going in.

  • Ah, look at this park!

  • Oh, here they come!

  • Whoa yes!

  • Awesome! That was cool!

  • Sarah emerges, hey Sarah!

  • And there's Joshua.

  • Hold my hand, baby, come. Doggie.

  • Fast, Becca

  • It's so high, huh?

  • You did it Dude! Awesome!

  • Wow, and here goes Sarah!

  • Good job Sarah!

  • And Annano problem for Anna.

  • The fish, the fish, oh, the fish!

  • Look at this, Daddy!

  • Oh cool. Now we know our way around.

  • There was one fish looking at me, and one fish came a kissed the other fish.

  • It makes it look like it's in the bay.

  • Yeah it does. That's probably what it looks like in the water around here.

  • We got that fish on Animal Crossing. Do you? They just go around and around in a circle.

  • That's crazy!

  • Aren't those crazy? They're Sea Anemones.

  • That's what Nemo lived inside of.

  • You know they would get zapped if someone else hid?

  • It's a sea tunnel, Dude! Whoa!

  • Whoa, look at all the mirrors!

  • Oh that's crazy!

  • There's a few of us around here. Hello.

  • We're entering a water tank.

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Whoa, look at that go!

  • Look, look, look!

  • Here he comes whoa!

  • It's like Animal Crossing!

  • There's the turtle you made friends with. Whoa!

  • You're going to feed him your hand for lunch?!

  • OK, shall we go? OK let's go now.

  • Whoa, there he goes!

  • Do you see that one?

  • Oh! Is that a real one?!

  • Yeah!

  • Look Anna! It's a bunch of turtle friends!

  • What are you seeing in there? Let me stick my head in there real quick!

  • Whoa! That's what you're seeing.

  • Joshua- I found our lunch todaylook!

  • Right up there.

  • It's so scared! I got so close to it and he moved away.

  • Whoa! He's super orange!

  • Anna's swimming with the Jelly Fish!

  • Sarah too! Sarah jumped in now.

  • Momma chan found a seat.

  • Oh, those are pretty!

  • They're so colorful and so interesting.

  • It's like kissing. It is like kissing.

  • Oh look at that one!

  • Oh! He bit 'em!

  • What? Which one?

  • They like need them. Oh look, see!

  • Poor thing. He's like "I'm getting out of here."

  • He follows him. He does. He's like a little bully.

  • It's like a soft shell taco.

  • Which one is your favorite, Joshua, in here?

  • That one right there?

  • My favorite one... What's your favorite one?

  • See that little white one over there? That little white one?!

  • It looks like a sheep to me.

  • Oh my goodness, it does! Look at the face on that thing!

  • I know! It looks like a sheep!

  • Oh my goodness, that's crazy!

  • Whoa, look at that octopus!

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Whoa! What did we find? A Seal!

  • The seals?

  • Can you see the seals, dude? No.

  • They might be under the water.

  • Whoa! There it was! Did you see it?!

  • That was so fun! That was cool, Dude!

  • Oh! You made a friend!

  • Do a flip!

  • Hey is that your favorite maybe so far? Yea!

  • Look at the shark! Look at that, Becca!

  • Is this what you wanted to see?!

  • Are you going to see if he wants some fingers for lunch?

  • OK, let's go find some food!

  • Everybody's choosing what they're going to munch on.

  • Joshua, Joshua, what is this?

  • Chopsticks

  • Fork

  • It's a fork, isn't it?

  • What is this?

  • Knife!

  • Knife! And this?

  • Spoon

  • Wow, your Japanese is good!

  • Our feast has arrived, huh? Mmmmmm.

  • Not mine.

  • Just not Becca's yet, ahh!

  • Oh Sarah, look at that! Oh cool!

  • I have chocolate on my pancake.

  • You sure do, wow! And on your face.

  • Oh, I see proof of popcorn!

  • Oh what a way to end our holiday today with some popcorn

  • And watching Little House on the Prairie.

  • Oh my goodness, how fun.

  • And tomorrow is only 4 classes!

  • Oh nice!

  • And it's your birthday! And it's my birthday!

  • Happy birthday to me! I turn 42 tomorrow!

We're taking advantage of a special holiday to spend a night in Tokyo as a family.

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