Since it was a rare opportunity that all family members are at home on Saturday recently, my 7-year-old son said last Friday's night:
"Let's go somewhere!"
"Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to the park!"
"Park... do you want to go to the park on such a cold day?? Maybe it will snow from tomorrow afternoon."
I thought I wanted to go somewhere warm.
I suggested to my husband yesterday morning:
"Why don't we go to Onsen? I want to relax there."
There is a public natural hot spring which it takes about 30 minutes by car from our house and we have been there several times before.
I reserved a chartered family bath.
Onsen are usually segregated for men and for women, so we also have to divide into two groups, our son & husband and our daughter & me.
But we can monopolize a small Onsen room for an hour and enjoy taking a bath together and we don't have to mind other people, so I reserved a chartered family bath though I had to pay an extra charge.
The water tasted salty because it was a salt spring.
It was really soft water.
Soft water means that it includes various kinds of minerals and we feel it is slippy.
We talked a lot and enjoyed the good water of theOnsen very much.
I could really relax and get warm there.
Our dinner was Sukiyaki yesterday!
My 5-year-old daughter and I went to the supermarket during my son's Karate lesson last Friday evening and I found some discounted beef for Sukiyaki and I bought it.
Since Japanese beef is expensive, I don't usually buy it.
So Sukiyaki is a rare dinner menu item for us!
We enjoyed a luxurious day as if we totally went for the hot spring trip.
Sometimes it is good to take a break and relax, isn't it?
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