travel motozo travel: Happy New Year from the Rubenstein's, Wishing you a tremendous 2024! あけおめ、今年もよろしくお願いします。

Happy New Year!

あけましておめでとうございます。

2023 was another active year for us, highlighted by an awesome family reunion in China and excursions to Hokkaido, Okinawa, Izu islands, etc. Meg took 2 more podium trophies on triathlon run legs while Ty conquered the ski slopes via snowboard. Motozo was a little too active with 7 triathlons in a narrow 9-week window. 2023年も活発な年でした。中国での家族の再会と北海道、沖縄、伊豆島などへの遠足へ遊びに行きました。

It was our second full year living in Shimoda. Lina turned 5 and started swimming classes. Ty started the 6^th grade at Shimoda Asahi elementary school and is active in swimming, basketball, and surfing. His recent surfing exploits probably helped him master snowboarding in 3 hours.

2023は私たちの2年目の通年でした。リナちゃんは5歳になり、 Ty君は、小学校で6年生を始め、サーフィンに積極的に活動しています。彼の最近のサーフィンの練習のおかげで、おそらく3時間でスノーボードをすぐにマスターするのに役立つでしょう。

Megumi continued repairing broken sentences at a local elementary school and also teaches yoga occasionally on the beach, squeezing in morning ocean runs. Her relay team placed well again twice this year in Oshima and Kawazu triathlons, placing 1st in the mixed divisions. 恵ちゃんはやっぱりやるね。

And Motozo probably overextended himself in 2023 by doing 4 triathlons in 6 weeks in May/June, than 3 more tris in 4 weeks in August/September. Needless to say, he didn’t podium any of these races.

Go figure! 元三は少しやりすぎたね。

Thanks to my brother Dan and Melanie, we had an excellent and relaxing stay in the suburbs of Beijing. We visited the Forbidden City, Great Wall, 798 Art Zone, and various restaurants that would accept our Alipay payments. 😉

弟のダンとメラニーのおかげで、私たちは北京郊外で素晴らしいリラックスした滞在を過ごすことができました。私たちは紫禁城、万里の長城、798芸術区、そしてAlipay支払いを受け入れてくれるさまざまなレストランを訪れました。 😉

My parents also joined us in Beijing. Amazingly, they traveled 22 hours from New York via Taiwan at the ripe ages of 89! 私の両親も北京に来ました。驚くべきことに、彼らは89歳という年齢で、ニューヨークから台湾を経由して22時間の旅をしたのです。