夏の暑い日に上野にある不忍池に蓮の花を見に行きました。上野駅集合でまずは腹ごしらえ。自分達で焼くお好み焼き屋さんに皆で行きました。子供達も参加の賑やかなツアーでした。楽しいランチの後に不忍池に到着。あらら　満開というよりも綺麗な蕾みが沢山。蓮の花は、午前中に咲いて昼頃にはお花が閉じてしまう事を知らなかったので、見る事が出来たのはほとんどが蕾みの花でした。(^◇^;)

On a hot summer day, we went to see the lotus flowers at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno.
We met at Ueno Station and grabbed lunch first. We all went to an okonomiyaki(Japanese pancake) place where you cook it yourself, which was a lot of fun. It was a lively outing with kids joining too. After a fun lunch, we headed to Shinobazu Pond. But oops—rather than being in full bloom, there were lots of beautiful buds. I didn’t know that lotus flowers bloom in the morning and close by around noon, so most of what we saw were buds. 😅