after french class

Yesterday after French class, I went to check out some cherry blossoms.

The weather is supposed to be sunny until Friday, so I wanted to see a new area, Mukogawa which boasts 2000 cherry trees.

I packed a bento before going to class...tamagoyaki (rolled omlette), shimeji with tonkatsu butter sauce, spinach carrot goma-ae, some pari-pari-zuke (a type of pickle), an amaou strawberry & a musubi with yukari (ground salted perilla). I also packed some water.

There were many groups at the park, mostly university students. Luckily there was an empty bench for me to eat my lunch.

From the Hanshin Mukogawa station, I walked to the Hankyu Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi station...5.7 kilometers (3.5 miles).

I was bummed though, there weren't many trees.

At least the weather was nice and "hot". Walking next to the Mukogawa (Muko river), was good because that was cool.

Near the end of my "walk" there was a small field of nanohana (rape blossoms).

It was nice to see all that yellow.

My feet were tired and I was kind of hungry, so I went to Starbucks in the ACTA building and had an earl grey roll with a short dark mocha chip frappuccino.

I liked the flavor of the earl grey roll but think the icing is kind of "fake" tasting.

When I came back, I re-read the article and realized that the 2000 trees are apparently spread out over 7 kilometers along the river! (sigh)

Hope to see more blooms in the coming days.