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  • Hop in the car and in about an hour you can be in Enoshima, a famous getaway destination near us.

  • Known for it's beach with views of Fuji, large aquarium and fairy-tale island,

  • see why Enoshima just might be the perfect day trip from Tokyo.

  • [Life in Japan Theme Song]

  • We're stopping by at Paul and Pri's place

  • They're going to follow us in their own car

  • And we're going to go to Enoshima to have a fun day on this holiday! Come along!

  • Hi Joey! Hi Big guy!

  • Yeah! Are you ready to go? Give a High Five to uncle Nate.

  • Are you ready? High five! Yes! Alright!

  • Are we going to have so much fun today? Oh good, good, good, good, good, good

  • Look at Leopard Luizahi!

  • What a cutie!

  • Oh my goodness, let's go have some fun? Yeah!

  • Oh, I remember having to do this. It wasn't that long ago.

  • No- one time we went to the States and all of them were in this 5 point [car seat]

  • The only thing about holidays is holiday traffic.

  • It's redvery red.

  • But, we'll get there.

  • So we made a very necessary stop for coffee. And what do you think, Ruth?

  • Re-Coffee, first time. Super delicious.

  • Super-duper de-lish.

  • Can I taste it? Uh uh.

  • Why? I need it all.

  • It's Momma-chan's

  • Fuji san! And Becca singing.

  • Hello! Hello, hello! Well, hello! What's happening there, Mr J?

  • Car!

  • We made it Sarah. What are you excited to see today? Fish.

  • Fish! Me too, fish!

  • Here they come!

  • Oh my goodness! Do you guys want to go swim? Yea.

  • Swim? It would be so cold today!

  • That is cool, huh? Yea

  • Wow. Joey, do you see Mt Fuji?

  • Do you see Mt Fuji out there? It's so big!

  • Here we go — going in!

  • Oh, do we see the fish in there? Yea, look at that one.

  • Oh, they're cool, they're awesome. They're swimming around!

  • Look at the poor onelook at the poor one that can't swim.

  • There's one that can't swim? Yea, right there.

  • He's swimming!!

  • Look at those huge snailahsnails?

  • In the shells — see them walking over there?

  • Look Joey Joey, look! Whoa!

  • Where's the fish? You wanna show Da Da? Where's the fish?

  • This is cousin Joey's first time at an aquarium, yea!

  • Do you see right there? There's one that's camouflaged.

  • Oh, a camouflaged one down there? Yea see, look.

  • Look Nate, all the eels poking out!

  • Oh, you're right! Those are weird!

  • What are those crazyit's like a shoal of fish or something?

  • Why's it all together? That's the way they like to go.

  • It's just here the whole time. See! They like you.

  • Whoa Dude, the stingray likes you — I think.

  • It's too scary!

  • Look at all the fish! There come the fish!

  • Oohhh! Let's go down! There they went.

  • Wow, cool!

  • Look, it's like a big Christmas tree down there. Do you see that? In the water?

  • Becca, please let Joey push.

  • Do you see the fish? Where's the fish?

  • Where are they? Show Uncle Nate.

  • Where's the fish, Sarah? What did you do with them?

  • Right here. They might not be in here.

  • Yes they are! They are?

  • Oh, they're tiny little ones, aren't they?

  • You guys look like your'e in the ocean!

  • Oh there's another Lion fish, huh? Oh, no it's not.

  • Is that a good place for a picture?

  • Joshua, look!

  • Stay right there — stay looking!

  • Here they come, perfect timing!

  • Perfect timing!

  • Whoa! Yeah!

  • Whoa guys. This is the biggest of all the tanks, huh?

  • Did we find the Jellyfish, Dude? Look at all those fish! Oh! Jellyfish!

  • Whose over there?

  • Sarah!

  • Are you swimming with the Jellyfish?

  • Look over here! Look, come right here.

  • Look, it's Joshua.

  • Well he disappeared. Where'd he go?

  • Oh there he is!

  • Look girls, we found the Jellyfish.

  • Those are some of your favorites, right?

  • Becca, you're so big!

  • Becca's huge! Sarah too.

  • I like that thing.

  • Are Jellyfish maybe your favorite, Anna?

  • Maybe. It's just so satisfying to watch it.

  • Very satisfying.

  • You can touch it. You can?! Is there water?

  • That's crazy! Stinksthe water stinks.

  • Daddy, if we touch this sidelike

  • If we touch, uh, like this side we won't get hurt,

  • but if we touch like this part on the inside then we're going to get hurt.

  • Is that how it works? I don't know — maybe.

  • Yea, you wouldn't want to get hit by those stingers, that's for sure.

  • Why, what's going to happen?

  • Why? Because it hurts like crazy!

  • This is what Momma usually does in the aquariums, huh?

  • It's too much movement in there. Oh?

  • All the things falling, and the things falling is making me nauseous. Yikes.

  • I don't know if there's a weird frequency in there, but it gave me an instant headache when I walked in.

  • What did you find, Sarah? A Statue Fish!

  • A Statue fish? He doesn't move, huh?

  • Eat me for lunch!

  • We found some penguins, huh?

  • That guys just chillin'.

  • Well they go one way and they come back upside down

  • Well, what would you do if you were in a cage like this?

  • Yea, they go that way upside down and that way up front.

  • Wow! And they flip.

  • Whoa! Look at the size of those turtles!

  • Look at Mt Fuji. Beautiful today!

  • That one has a tail.

  • OK- it's a quick lunch break!

  • When you have a family this size, you gotta buy a lot of lunch. Right?

  • And you need a lot of seats, don't you?

  • Yes. Yes.

  • There's the island out at Enoshima. If we have time, we're going to go there later.

  • Here we are, we're just hanging out. Mommy.

  • And Daddyno, me.

  • That's you?! Yea.

  • And Daddy.

  • And Sarah and Anna and Becca.

  • Are we just hanging out, waiting for the dolphin show to start?

  • Ah! Did you see that, Dude? He was waving!

  • He was waving.

  • Was he waving? Yeah, he was waving.

  • Ah! Did you see that, Dude?

  • Yeah, that was fun.

  • Whoa, that was big! That was big.

  • Are they talking?

  • That was cool.

  • Joshua, did you see them flip through the air? Did a huge somersault?

  • Do you think you could do that? No?

  • No. I need to be... Oh my goodness.

  • I need to be higher... jumping. Oh yea?

  • I need to be so high jumpingand then I need to jump so high to do that.

  • Do you see that Sarah? It's called a Capybara.

  • There's a really big ship, huh Dude?

  • Very cool. Wow!

  • So when it's underwater, it can get all kinds of stuff.

  • What do you think guys? If it were one person in there, would you want to be that person?

  • Don't Joshua. No thank you.

  • Yes. Whoa, that's cool, huh?

  • I mean no! If someone's going to go with me, then yes.

  • What are you doing, Anna?!

  • OK let's go guys? Oh! There's Becca over there.

  • Anna, do you see what we're going to do? Yea.

  • Do you guys see what we're going to do? No!

  • (Ruth speaking Japanese)

  • One thousand, 4 [hundred Yen]

  • So we're going to take a ferry from here to the island, I believe

  • And then we'll climb up the island and walk back.

  • Joshua, you look all set with your vest on!

  • Here comes the boat we're going to take to go over there.

  • When was the last time you were on a boat, girls?

  • Um, in Brazil.

  • No, we did it in Japan, remember?

  • Here we go guys!

  • OK go! This is scary!

  • Here we go! Are we ready, guys?

  • Whew hoo! Oh yes!

  • Oh fun fun fun fun

  • It's so hisashiburi (such a long time) going on a boat like this.

  • It is hisashiburi going on a boat.

  • You'll be able to see plenty.

  • Alright guys!

  • Here we go!

  • Sarah! Is it fun? Yea.

  • Aw, cool!

  • And my beautiful Anna-cakes! Fun?

  • Becster, yes?

  • Ok let's go! We're here!

  • We need to go off now?

  • Let's go!

  • Whoa, look at this! My goodness.

  • Green green moss there, huh? My goodness.

  • What an interesting way to disembark, huh guys?

  • Look!

  • OK let's go!

  • I didn't get any wet from there.

  • That's good! He did not get wet.

  • I'm glad you didn't.

  • Look at this! This is wild.

  • Look at this! My goodness!

  • This would be fun to explore in the summer a little bit.

  • The climbing's about to start here.

  • This is a major incline here.

  • Heading up. Lots of stairs to go up now.

  • I don't have any water. We'll have to find a place that sells water.

  • What can we have?

  • Need a drink on the way here.

  • Is this Kirin right here good?

  • These little shops along the way are pretty cool.

  • OK, let's keep walking. OK let's go!

  • Head on up!

  • It's quite the stairway here.

  • Beccado you see it? Please be an elevator!

  • Yea, we're almost there.

  • We're not there yet. We have to go down and go up a little bit more.

  • Japan hat. There's a lot of cool souvenirs here.

  • The Plum blossoms are starting to come out.

  • Up here? No.

  • This trail just goes on and on.

  • Are these the last steps? Did we make it to the top, guys?

  • Can you show me the tickets? Let me see. Oh cool.

  • Alright, we got our tickets. Daddy got his, let's go in!

  • Oh my goodness! Ticket, Nate.

  • They look fake. They're not fake.

  • Look at these. I want to take some pictures. Can I have your phone?

  • Yeah. Because I think your phone will do a better job than mine.

  • You can't "have" Daddy's phone, you can borrow Daddy's phone.

  • Take my mask off? Take your mask off.

  • Mommy, can you see Anna?

  • Oh- I see Anna. Hi, Anna!

  • I'm holding her, can you see me?

  • I can't see you at all. Oh my goodness.

  • That's how you're doing it, huh?

  • Oh my goodness, that was cool. Wait until you see what it looks like.

  • OK, now all of you around there. Right there where Sarah is.

  • Photo shoot time.

  • OK, get in there with them!

  • One, two, Sarah!

  • Becca, you look terrified.

  • Don't look terrified, Becster! One, Two, Threesmile Sarah!

  • OK

  • This is going to be really cool if we wait until a little bit later. Won't it?

  • Look at that!

  • OK

  • Can I smell them, Mommy?

  • Yea, don't touch, just smell.

  • Mommy, take a picture!

  • Are you smelling the Tulips? How do they smell?

  • I can't smell anything. You can't smell anything?

  • Oh look at the tiny little garden.

  • We're finally there!

  • Look what we're finally close to!

  • You can see to the top.

  • Here we gowe're going to get in the elevator to go up!

  • (Speaking in Japanese) Thank you You're welcome

  • Have fun This is so big.

  • OK, we're going up guys.

  • Look, we're going to be able to see out. Here it goes.

  • (In Japanese) Oh no...

  • Whoa. Whew, so bright!

  • Ah! Look Dude! Oh my... goodness!

  • Oh my goodness! Oh whoa, look over here!

  • There's like a pool. No it's not.

  • Holy cow! Whoa look, they're walking it.

  • Oh we could walk down. We could walk down if you guys want to.

  • Ice cream! Holy cow

  • Let's walk down. Oh my goodness

  • Oh Jesus.

  • Here we go. You got this girlfriend.

  • Whoa.... Wow!

  • This is incredible! Mommy I want to do this.

  • This reminds me of Tokyo Skytree Tower

  • Too bad you can't really see Fuji anymore. You can kind of see it.

  • That's the aquarium down there, where we were.

  • Hey, let's go up? We can go up!

  • Yeah! Where' Joshua?

  • Joshua!

  • Let's go up, Dude! We can go up.

  • OK!

  • We can go up more to the top?!

  • Whoa, cool!

  • Oh my!

  • Super cool!

  • Look! Oh my stars!

  • Oh, can you guys kind of see Mt Fuji? Oh yea.

  • You can kind of see the silhouette way out there.

  • Whoathis is awesome, I love it.

  • I want to go down now.

  • Well hello there, how are you today?

  • Good. Good?

  • You look like Wally. Oh, do I?

  • Yea, Wally from the movie.

  • There's the boat we went on. Can I see?

  • Oh the boat we went on!

  • Can I scream "Hello?" No.

  • I want to see.

  • Right there? Yea, all of that is the big gardens down below.

  • What a beautiful island.

  • You're not quite tall enough, Sarah!

  • Ok, heading back down.

  • Some of these kids want to go down the steps, amazingly. All the way down.

  • I want to!

  • Mommy and Sarah taking the elevator down,

  • And guess whatwho wants to go the stairs, all the way down the stairs. OK, hold the side there, guy.

  • It's scary! I'm not kidding, it's scary!

  • Is it? Here, do you want to go with mommy?

  • It's shaking.

  • Well don't shake it.

  • Alright, let's go! Scary!!

  • Hey Becca, wait! I am!

  • Did you wave to them, Becca? I did!

  • Whoa, there they go, there they go.

  • They noticed me.

  • Whoa, I almost fell.

  • A lot of stairs.

  • Who is that way down there?

  • Who is that way down there? Hey Dude!

  • Hi! Hi.

  • What did you girls think? Oh, you know how to do that.

  • It says "Push" on it.

  • Did you like walking down it? Yes. Oh Josh's over there!

  • Look at this nice place you found to wait, huh? Oh my.

  • If they had ramen, I would totally buy some.

  • Everyone's getting a bite to eat while we're waiting for it to get dark for the illumination.

  • Everyone's munch, munch, munch?

  • Some French friesare you heating them up there?

  • Careful don't... I put my hand in here

  • Oh don't get burned, oh, oh!

  • Oh... Oh that's hot

  • It's just fake.

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Look at this sandwich!

  • Drink, soup, salad.

  • And view. Well hello there!

  • Well Anna. Pretty super-duper sunset, huh guys?

  • OK, let's take a picture. OK, are we ready? Oh, this is going to be awesome.

  • He turning on the lights.

  • Yea!!!

  • Let's go guys.

  • Whoa guys!

  • Oh, look at that over there. Oh this is awesome. It changes colors too!

  • Now they're going to turn it off. Just kidding.

  • We're going to walk through the lights now.

  • So cool now.

  • Awesome illumination! And here's the tower.

  • So cool!

  • It's beautiful guys! Whoa, this is awesome.

  • It's like a tropical illumination... wonderland.

  • I am not the only person with a camera here.

  • I'm planning on ice cream. You're planning on it?

  • We still have to buy ice cream.

  • Whoa!

  • This is super cool.

  • It reminds me of Thailand a little bit. Kind of.

  • The lights remind you of Thailand?

  • I think like these tropical plants, it has kind of tropically feeling. It does. I like it.

  • Those I've got to duck.

  • This is so cool! Can I see?

  • Oh look at that! Look at the chandeliers!

  • Whoa! This would be a great place to rent for a wedding in the winter!

  • Wouldn't that be cool?

  • A winter wedding in herethat would be cool. Daddy, Daddy...

  • Where's your phone? Can I take a video on your phone?

  • Whew!

  • It's my turn. It's my turn.

  • Becca! Becca! No No no, Becca, it's my turn. OK

  • Joshua!

  • There's the mini garden.

  • Are you girls getting good practice for when you have your own cell phone.

  • Smart phone? Yep.

  • Iphone? We're practicing!

  • You're practicing? Yep.

  • OK

  • No Anna, don't run with Daddy's phone.

  • Give me it now! Hey, don't get mad.

  • Actually, hang on.

  • Mommy I'm going to go to the ninja place.

  • Getting our final pictures here.

  • Maybe final pictures here? Turn your face a little more.

  • One, two, three.

  • One, two, three. OK, let's go.

  • Your hands are so cold.

  • What about my hands?

  • One last video here, and then we're going to go home...go down the mountain.

  • These are Sakura or Plum trees, probably?

  • Look at those! It's gorgeous! Where's Daddy's camera?

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Hurry Anna please! I need it. This is where we need some pictures.

  • Hurry, all four. Those are so pretty.

  • One, two, three.

  • It's says "Welcome Enoshima." Welcome to Enoshima!

  • Look at my young protege, taking videos.

  • Pictures? Oh, panoramic. Look at that!

  • Now we start our decent back down the island, find some ice cream, and go to the car.

  • We get some ice cream. Get some ice cream!

  • I hope our parking lot doesn't close.

  • Wow! Huh?

  • Whoa! That was a bush. I thought I saw a snake or something.

  • OK, go sit right there.

  • We got our ice cream. Finally!

  • We've been waiting all day... mostly patiently. Yeah.

  • Mostly, huh?

  • Yum, oh yum!

  • Oh wow guys! Yum.

  • Things are closing up.

  • Well guys, that was super cool.

  • You have to walk this bridge back off the island. It's a long bridge.

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  • Bye bye!

  • Are you done? OK.

  • It was such a fun day!

  • We switched to the phone, are we out of battery?

  • No, Instagram!

  • So today I filled up a 128 GB memory card full of footage,

  • Over 60 minutes of footage, and this video that we do will probably end up being 30 minutes or maybe even 20 minutes long.

  • Look at all this footage.

  • Look at all of that beautiful, lovely footage.

  • Oh my goodness! This is going to be an epic video here, oh yes.

  • What do you think, Sarah?

  • That's a lot.

  • That's a lot, huh? Daddy has a lot of work to do now, huh?

Hop in the car and in about an hour you can be in Enoshima, a famous getaway destination near us.

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