First Time for Everything

On Wednesday I went to my friend Yoko's house for dinner as I have been doing every two weeks since I got here. This is her here with her two sons Yuya and Shota. This week, Yuya (the younger, cheekier, chubbier one of the two boys) came up to me and asked me if i knew what "hotaru" was? I obviously didn't have a clue, and Yuya was pretty miffed that I didn't know. So out came the electronic dictionary and the word we were looking for was "fireflies". Of course! I'd never seen them before which caused much hilarity so after dinner and birthday cake, we spent the evening catching them by the river. Very Beatrix Potter!