Catching up (2): Kachoen

These are some of my favorite recent photographs of the boys, taken on a day out a couple of weeks ago to Kachoen on Port Island in Kobe. "Kachoen" means "flower and bird park," and that's literally what it is - a huge, warm greenhouse filled with colorful flowers and with several areas where you can watch, feed, and even touch exotic birds. It was a great antidote to the winter blues on a cold, wet Sunday afternoon. (Even the penguins were shivering - they're a South African variety, and they liked the Kansai sleet as little as we did!)