Are you guys all ready? And you too, yeah.

準備できた？

But you get to wear your jerseys today. That's pretty cool.

今日はジャージが似合うね

[Life in Japan Theme Song]

小さな折り紙

Teeny weeny little origami.

手より小さい

Oh. It's tinier than my hand.

ママが何か言ってたよね？

What did Mommy say yesterday? What should we do?

折り紙教室

Uh, an origami class.

サラと折り紙教室？

An origami class with Sarah?

いいね

Wouldn't that be cute?

精巧な出来栄えだね

Wow, look at that! It's so tiny and perfect!

小さくしたよ

I think about making it tinier. "I'm thinking..."

登校前の一杯です

Becca's juicing up for school.

それは？

What did you draw? This, my homework.

宿題

And then my finger. Your finger?

私の指

There it is!

指？

Well guys, just one day of school here and then the rest of Golden Week.

本当だ！

Some people call my Animal Crossing

1日だけ登校したら 連休だよ！

Because I have so many animals on my mask.

私のマスクが "どうぶつの森" みたいだって

It sure looks like it, huh?

確かに

And thank you for the matchbox!

マッチボックスをありがとう！

Yes, the matchbox guy Yamagami san came to church yesterday huh?

ヤマガミさんが教会に持ってきてくれたね

And gave you these. Those are awesome, aren't they?

素晴らしいよね

The main part of Golden Week was about to begin

三連休が始まります

and the weather forecast was looking good

天気も良さそうです

We had two new places set to explore,

栃木県のあしかがフラワーパークと ぐんまこどもの国に行きます

Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture's Child Kingdom

その前にキャンプです！

And to kick it all off, we would go camping in a very different way!

サラスキー！ 学校は？

Sarah-ski! How was school?

楽しかった

Good.

ゴールデンウィークだね！ 三連休だよ

Happy Golden Week! You had one day of school and now three days off again.

良い日だった？

Was it a good day today? Yea.

うん

Good.

サラの帰りを待ってた？

Were you waiting for her to get home, Dude?

秘密基地を作るの！

And I'm so excited to make the fort in our room.

- いいね - 基地でお泊り！

Oh yea, and we're going to sleep in our fort!

楽しみだね！

Oh yea, you got to get it ready!

明日はお休みだから…

Since tomorrow's a holiday we are all... Getting setup for sleeping in our tent.

テントでお泊り会

What happens if this falls?

崩れたらどうなる？

What a fun little place!

素敵なテント！

Guys, are we ready for the verse of the day at night? Yea.

夜の聖書の時間だよ

I can't even see who I'm talking to!

誰が話してる？

You're talking to a tent. To a tent?!

テントと話してるの

I can't do a verse with a tent!

テントと？

So last night we had a tent campout inside of our living room.

テントとは話せないよ

Good morning!

昨日はテントでお泊り会でした

Getting in the car! Oh yea.

おはよう！

We're going to have a car ride... OK, yes!

車に乗って！

But it's two hours and we're leaving so early!

- これからドライブ - 行くよ！

Not so early!

2時間かかるよ

Why we decided to go during Golden Week, but here we are.

早朝じゃないわ

Everybody's off. Everybody else is too!

ゴールデンウィークね

Guys, look here, we've got some road spaghetti.

みんなお休みだね

Are we going to go on the spaghetti? Yea.

道がスパゲッティみたい

We're going to spaghetti on up to the upper deck over here.

このまま進むの？

I love that view!

このまま上まで行くよ

We left early and thought we would be able to beat the traffic, but we were wrong.

いい眺め！

Well we've been driving for 2, over 2 hours now

早めに出発して 渋滞を回避する計画でした

And it still says maybe an hour and 20 minutes to go

2時間以上運転してますが

But the traffics been like this

目的地まであと1時間20分

Pretty much the whole time once we got through Tokyo.

東京からずっと渋滞です

Golden Week traffic.

こんな感じです

The drive ended up taking over twice as long as it normally takes, and we could see why.

連休の渋滞

It seemed like everyone was headed for the flower park.

通常の倍の時間が掛かりましたが 理由が分かりました

OK guys, we're going in.

大勢の人が来ています

Finally!

入場するよ

We left at what time, Ruth?

やっと！

7:00 in the morning Before 7:00

何時に出発した？

And it's 11:30 and we're getting here.

朝の7時

Here we go.

11時半に到着

OK, come look at mommy, right here.

見て下さい

There's bees.

ママを見て

One, Two, Three

ハチがいる

OK, let's go. We got it, we got it.

1・2・3

Very cool, wow.

行きましょう

My little budding photographers and videographers.

素敵です

These look like they're almost done, don't they.

小さな写真家です

Wisterias are beautiful flowering vines,

ほぼ満開だね

and arguably one of the most famous places to see them is Ashikaga Flower Park.

美しい藤は

This is our very first time here.

あしかがフラワーパークの見所です

Look at that!

初めて来ました

This is pretty here!

見て！

This is an Instagram moment.

綺麗だよ

One Two Three

インスタ映えね

Those are super duper blue!

1・2・3

And that's purple.

鮮やかな青！

Purple there and the blue down there.

これは紫

Look at that!

紫と青

That is cool! Very cool.

見て！

Look at mommy guys real quick!

すごいね！本当に！

She has a new favorite! It's Calla Lilly.

ママを見て！

Let's go up here, look, right there.

新しいお気に入り！

Look at this. It smells so good.

上に行きましょう

Do you have a favorite yet Joshua?

見て！

Right there! The red one.

いい香り

Anything red.

ジョシュアのお気に入りは？

Daddy, you got right in front of my view! Oh no!

あの赤いの！

Oh what a spot!

赤いわね

Joshua found a spot, he's like "this is where I want my picture."

パパが写ってる

What a good eye, Dude.

見所だね！

I'm going to go in there real quick.

ジョシュアが見つけました

That's a lot of pink and purple.

いい勘だね

A lot of pink and purple.

ちょっと見てくる

Oh, the line's long to check out.

ピンクと紫

OK, let's go. Come.

ピンクと紫

Oh look at this one.

すごい列

They're pretty yellows,

行きましょう

but they're working on growing them all the way over here still it looks like.

見て下さい

I think people slightly like this area here

綺麗な黄色が 一面に広がっています

Wow

人気そうな場所です

Um, there's a bee!

ハチがいる！

Wow!

すごい

That is so cool.

ハチがいます

Look at those bees.

楽しそうです

Those bees are like... "Yes!"

ベッカは苦手だね

Yes!

ハチが何匹いた？

It doesn't want you, Becca.

60匹

How many bees did you count? 60

そこね

Sixty!

ハチ恐怖症が克服できるね

Just in there. Holy cow.

怖いけど

It's a good place to come to overcome your fear of bees, huh?

一面の藤です

Uh huh. I'm scared of bees.

不思議な壁です

It's the wall of wisteria.

パパがハチになってる？

It's a "wery wisterious wall"

ハチお父さん！

You got a picture of a daddy bee? Let me see!

ハチの音がする

Daddy Bee!

待って 撮るよ！

Oh!

素晴らしい公園です

I heard a "buzz" and it was coming from Daddy.

この後は 別の公園を訪れます

Wait, stay still, I want to take a picture.

ママちゃんが来たかった場所だね

The fame of this park is well deserved,

良かったわ

but the day wasn't done yet,

連休以外でまた来たいわ

and neither were the amazing parks.

連休以外の藤の季節に来よう

Well Momma chan, that was one of the things on your list to try

アナはどこでも楽しそう

How was it?

扇風機があれば

Oh it was so good.

サラ 群馬のこどもの国だよ

I want to come back next year, but not during Golden Week.

新しい場所だね

Not during Golden Week and right at the height of the purple wisterias.

準備はいい？

Anna can have fun at any time.

ドライブ長かったね

Just give her a fan.

次だよ！

Sarah, we're about to do Kodomo no Kuni Gunma.

ベッカ達が出るよ

It's another child Kingdom!

行ってらっしゃい！

OK, you ready Dude?

届く？

We did a lot of riding in the car to get here today.

後ろは？

Next is us!

お姉ちゃん達

Look at the girls, they're all ready, aren't they?

漕げてる？

Bye! Have fun.

減速して！

Can you reach, Dude? Can you reach?

ぶつかりそうだったね

Hey, who's behind us?

大変だね

There go the girls, huh?

電車に乗りましょう！

Are you reaching, Dude?

頑張ってます！

We need to slow down!

サラ どうだった？

Daddy almost bonked into them, huh?

- 楽しい？ - 怖かった

That would have been bad, huh?

虫がママについたの

Oh Nate, I want to do that train.

虫がママに？

He just barely reaches.

サラ 頂上だね！

Sarah, what did you think?

ベッカが反対に来たよ

Was it fun? Scary.

障害物コース？

This big bug went on Mommy's leg!

すごい！

Oh, a big bug on Mommy, huh?

ジョシュア！

Sarah, up on the top, way to go.

あれはどう？

Becca's not far behind you on the other one.

すごい！

Are you doing the obstacle course, Dude? Yep.

楽しそうだね！

Awesome

ローラー滑り台の場所？

Dude!

ローラー滑り台

What do you think of that?!

パパも行くよ

Awesome!

本当？

Look at that! Holy cow!

楽しみ？

That's where the roller slide is, ne?

楽しみ？

They'll go down the roller slide.

すごい道

I think Daddy's going to go down with you guys.

大変だ！登るよ！

Oh, what?! Can I take your phone?

ベッカ どうした？

Is that cool?

大丈夫

Won't that be cool!? Yeah!

じゃあね！

Wow, this is just wild!

アナです

My goodness! Going up, going up!

行きます

Becca what's up?!

ベッカも行きます

Nothing.

行こう！

Bye! Bye.

ジョシュア 待って

Here goes Anna!

行くぞ！

There she goes!

これまでの滑り台でも 特に楽しかったです

And Becca's filming and going.

スピードも出ます

OK, go!

最高です！

Now wait Joshua!

リフトに並んでいます

Go Dude, go go go go!

上からボブスレーが出来ます

So that slide there was one of the best I've ever done here in Japan.

いいね

It was fast, it moves you good,

何食べてるの？

Oh man that was fun!

連休は楽しいね

So we're waiting in line for this chairlift that takes you up to the top of this hill.

どう？

And then you can come down on these sleds, like a bobsled.

来週の木曜と金曜は 運動会の練習

Oh yes!

ジョシュアがおんぶ？

What do we have here? Is it good? Yes?

すごい！

How freakin' cool! You have almost a week of holidays right now.

いい？

Doesn't that make you happy?

落とさないで

Next week on Thursday and Friday we have whole day—whole day— sports day practice.

出発です

Joshua, you giving everybody rides, Dude? Me too!

じゃあね！

Wow! Oh my goodness.

上で会おう

OK ready? Jump! Don't drop him.

逆向きだ

Wah wah wah!

ここで回るよ

There they go!

行くよ

Bye!

後ろ向きになる

Bye guys! See you at the top!

トランポリンがある

Oh my goodness, we're going the wrong way!

本当だ

Yep, we're going to turn around.

ボブスレーだね

Oh, there they go!

一緒に運ぶんだね

We're going up backwards! We're going up.

後ろ向き！

I'm seeing all the kids playing on the bouncing thing.

ベッカがタイムラプスで撮影してます

I know! Look at that!

撮影開始です

There the sleds that we come down on.

上がってます！

And they ride up on the lift as well.

向こうにもいます

We're going up backwards!

東京のこどもの国と比べてどう？

OK, Becca is doing a timelapse with my phone.

100%最高

And there it is, it's all setup. We'll see what it looks like when it's done!

良い意味？

We're heading on up!

東京の方が広いかも

There they are up above us!

タイムラプスです

So Becca, what do you think about this Kodomo no Kuni compared to the other one we just did?

上手に撮影しています

One hundred percent cool.

着いたよ！

Even better you mean?

ありがとうございます！

But I think the other Kodomo no Kuni might be bigger.

上手な撮影でした

Becca's still hanging on to that Timelapse.

また列だね

She's doing good, I can't wait to see it!

何がある？

OK guys! Thank you!

絶景かな？

Becca got a cool Timelapse.

ボブスレーが見えるよ

OK, from one line to the other.

楽しそうだね

What do we have here?

もう少しだよ！

Super mega-awesome view?

アナは？

Wow.

サラも！

Look over here, you can see the bobsled runs.

見て

I'll tell you what, those really look awesome.

サラの番です

OK, just a little bit more to the very top!

前に出ます

Oh here comes Anna, huh?

じゃあね！

And Sarah!

ありがとうございます

See, look out there.

速かった！

Ooooh!

すごい！

OK, there goes Sarah!

みんな！

OK, she's got to push forward to go.

- またやりたい！ - どうだった？

Bye Daddy! OK, bye!

もう1回！

Thank you!

もう1回？

That was fast!

アナはどうだった？

Oh my goodness!

楽しい？

Hey guys!

渋滞は大変でしたが

I want to do it again! How was it?

最高なお出かけになりました

One more time!

見所が沢山あるので また来たいです

You want to go another time?!

ユーチューバー！

Whoa, how was it Anna?

ユーチューバー！

Was that cool? Yes!

いいね！

We might have spent a lot of time in the car and in lines,

家まで2時間36分の表示です

but visiting these two great parks even during Golden Week was totally worth it.

それ以上かからないよう 祈っています

We already can't wait to visit again, as there's so much more to see.

来週はゴールデンウィーク後半の様子を お届けします！