December 2, 2009. Hubby's day off and we decided to go to our favorite park -- Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. It is a green sanctuary right in the middle of the city. In certain parts of the park where you can't view any of the surrounding buildings, you can easily slip into an alternate reality. Even avid urbanites like hubby need a respite from the grey cityscape that Tokyo can be. We packed up our picnic mat (Philippine-made banig, courtesy of April Mabanes), obento (pack lunch) and other snacks and headed to the park.
Even from the entrance of the park, we could already see the gorgeous bursts of yellow gold, reds and oranges. There were quite a number of people laid out on their mats where the sun's rays landed. I don't think I have appreciated the sun so much as here in the Autumn cold, when the sun's rays brings waves of much welcome warmth.
Lazing in our banig and soaking up the sun
Watching the leaves fall
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