Sunday, January 29, 2012

A Day at a Mall with my Daughter

娘が金曜日の晩に泊まりにくる事になり、
その日がくるのを首を長くして待っていた私。
お正月にあったばかりなのに、随分会っていないような気がする・・

My daughter made plans to stay at our house on Friday night. I had been looking forward to seeing her for a long time. Even though I just saw her on New Year's Day, it still felt like it had been a long time since I had seen her.

この近くに最近、大きなモール”テラス・モール湘南”ができたと聞いていたの
そこに一緒にいこうと思っていて、娘も楽しみにしていたのです。

 I had been planning to go to the Terrace Mall Shonan with her because I knew that the mall was opened lately and it is the biggest mall in the Shonan area. (Shonan is a very famous beach area with a pretty island
named Enoshima. It is located southwest from Tokyo.) My daughter was also looking forward to going there.

家から車でたった25分で行けるとわかったのですが
何とその日は朝から雪が降っていて・・初雪です!
帰るときに積もっていたら、と心配になって電車で行くことに。
電車だとそのモールは辻堂駅と連結していて楽でした。

I wanted to make the day trip by car as I learned it takes only 25 minutes to get to the mall from my house. However, I was very surprised to find that it was snowing that day. It was the first snow of this winter! I changed our plans - we would go there by train because I worried that the snow would accumulate by the afternoon. It was very convenient for us to go there by train; the mall is connected to Tsujido station.

  

まず、娘がパンケーキ・カフェに行こうと提案。
彼女によれば、そのお店は東京にバーガー・カフェも出していて、
とても素敵なお店なので
ぜひパンケーキカフェにも行ってみたいということでした。

At first, my daughter recommended that we go to a pancake café. She told me that the company that ran the pancake café also ran a burger café in Tokyo. The company's restaurants were stylish and cook, so she wanted to go to the pancake café in the mall. 




私は正直なところ、お昼前に甘いものを食べるのはちょっと・・と思いましたが、
それは間違いで・・そこのパンケーキは軽くて、甘すぎずとても美味しかったのでした。
二人で2種類のパンケーキを注文し、半分ずつにしました。

Honestly, I didn't feel like eating sweet food before lunch at first, but I was mistaken. The pancakes were very light, delicious and not too sweet. We shared two kinds of pancakes with each other.

リコッタチーズとハニーアップルのパンケーキ
Honey Apple Pancake with Ricotta Cheese

チョコレートとバナナのパンケーキ
Chocolate Banana Pancake

そのあと、モールの中を歩いてみました。
娘は気に入った香りのハンドクリームを買い、
私はパンケーキを食べたばかりなのに、
とても可愛らしいお菓子を見つけてしまい、
それを買ったのでした。とても小さな鯛焼きでした。
お土産用の包装もこんなに可愛らしかったのです。

After we enjoyed them, we walked around the mall. My daughter bought a scented hand cream that she liked. I found very cute sweets that were too cute not to buy, although we had just enjoyed American style pancake. They were very small Japanese sweets"Taiyaki" that are sold as souvenir. The packaging is very cute, too. (Taiyaki is a very popular sweet in Japan; they are fish-shaped cakes stuffed with sweet bean paste.)






そのモールには281店舗が入っています。
大きな映画館もあって
娘の提案で15:10から上映の”ミッション・インポッシブル: ゴースト・プロトコル”を見る事にしました。

The mall has 281 shops. There is a big movie theater there, too. My daughter suggested that we go see the movie"Mission Impposible: Ghost Protocol"at 3:10 pm.


彼女はとてもワクワクしていて、
”お母さん、トムってかっこいいね!”と言っていましたが
ドバイにある世界一高いビルの壁を走り抜けるトム・クルーズは確かに素敵でした。

She was very excited to watch it. She told me, "Tom is very cool, Mom". She was right. Tom Cruise was very cool in the scene when he ran across the side of the tallest building in the world in Dubai.

映画を見たあと、家に帰って娘が持ってきてくれたおかずで夕食になりました。
彼女は今、圧力鍋に凝っています。
圧力鍋って働く女性にとって便利でありがたい調理器具のようです。
肝心なそのお料理を、食べるのに夢中で写真に撮り忘れてしまいました。

After we enjoyed the movie, we came back home. We had a nice dinner that my daughter brought with her. Right now, she is very interested in cooking with a pressure cooker. A pressure cooker sounds very helpful and convenient for working women. I am very sorry that it was too delicious for me to remember to take a picture! We enjoyed the cute Taiyaki sweets after diner. I thought they looked cuter than they tasted!

食後に例のかわいらしい鯛焼きを食べました・・。
とてもかわいかったんだけどね、私は黒糖の味がちょっと苦手かも。
 We enjoyed the cute Taiyaki sweets after diner. I thought they looked cuter than they tasted!


そしていろいろな事を話して、娘が幸せな新婚生活を送っているとわかって安心。
楽しい母と娘の一日でした。

We talked with each other about many things and I was very glad to know her new life with her husband is very happy.
It was a nice girl's day for us!

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