V-Day

Tigerpapa surprised me this year by suggesting that we go out for dinner to celebrate Valentine`s Day. In Japan Valentine`s Day is for women to give chocolate to men and so 
this suggestion was met with surprise and delight! I even got to pick the 
place. I wanted to try somewhere new and thought Thai would be nice so 
Tigerpapa did a quick search online and found a place relatively close
to our apartment (big surprise as we live in the sticks!). It was AMAZING! Probably the best Thai food I`ve ever had 
outside of Thailand. The woman who runs the restaurant (with her Japanese 
husband) is Thai so no wonder but usually the flavours are toned down a bit
in Japan. Not here! Yum. Unfortunately the only picture I took was taken
far too late: 







After dinner, we returned home to eat the cake that me and the kids had made during the day. We started out making cupcakes but, since I can only cook 6 cupcakes at a time in my teeny tiny oven, I used the rest of the batter to make a cake. Everything turned out really well and Tigerpapa would have been really surprised if Tigerboy hadn`t spilled the beans at dinner. Darn those underdeveloped 3-year-old brains that just can`t keep a secret!





I also got Tigerpapa some yummy chocolate bars...just to keep with tradition in Japan.



All in all, it was a fabulous Valentine`s Day!