Short day trip to Karuizawa!

Slept in till 9:00am today before waking up and finalizing today’s plans. Had some fruit for a mini breakfast, and then drove to a café I’ve been wanting to try for a while for some real breakfast! The café has the prettiest name ever (木漏れ日 – which is the Japanese word for “the sunlight filtering through the trees”) and serves very cute food and drinks! I had heard from my school librarian that the café’s French Toast is good, so my mum got the seasonal special chestnut French toast and chestnut mocha, and I got the normal French toast and a hot chocolate. The latte art for the mocha and hot chocolate was super cute, and the spoons were shaped like little garden spades! The food not only looked really good, but it tasted great as well. I love the Japanese style of using baguette slices for their French toast – it gives it a really great texture, instead of the slightly soggy French toast you get if you use normal sliced bread.

After we finished breakfast we drove all the way to Karuizawa to see the stone church, but unfortunately (for us) there was a wedding going on today so we couldn't go inside the church. Thankfully they still allowed visitors to see the outside of the church and take photos, which I thought was very kind of them. Then we went to the shopping mall again to have a look, but didn’t end up buying anything. Had a late lunch at a Japanese restaurant in the mall, but it was quite average. Drove back home and went to the supermarket for a few more nabe ingredients, before having nabe for dinner at home.