Loraine 花見 🌸

Last year when we first visited Café Loraine we heard they were having a Hanami event and even tho we really wanted to go, we couldn't because of work and well, the pandemic was a lot worse than how it is now. 

Earlier this month, some of my friends wanted to have our own Hanami to celebrate the beginning of the Spring season. We didn't really see many flowers and as some of you might know, "Hanami" means Flower viewing so, I guess it was more like a Spring picnic. It was still fun tho.

Loraine's Hanami is an indoors picnic under a fake Sakura tree. We don't have real Sakura in my country so, is the closest we can get, hehe. 

You have to make a reservation because they only allow 2 groups of 6 people max. And it's only on Thursdays. I believe they'll have it until April. I'm not sure tho.

They prepared this big tablecloth thingy with lots of pillows under the tree. Everything in pink and blue. This café is very pink, I love it.

We paid $343.00 for the whole thing that included: Maki, Pink Lemonade, Taro or pink Latte, a kiré, pink Hershey's, a plushie and socks because we couldn't stand on the tablecloth with our shoes. They also gave us a free milkshake coupon.

Our food came in cute baskets. And even tho the maki was a bit soggy for me, it was pink and blue, which made it super cute. 

The Kiré was delish! I believe it was strawberry with blueberries and some flower petals. I just loved it. My taro latte was pretty good too.

Even tho we got different drinks, they were all pretty and decorated. 

I think the bunny was the cutest

I think all in all, it was a great experience, defo worth it. I feel like they take care of the little things and I appreciate that. The staff is always super nice and the place is perfect for pictures!

Random photo dump 🌸:

We forgot to take a plushie group pic but we all got penguins. This is mine, Pen-Pen.

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Can you see Pen-Pen?

Café Loraine has other seasonal events too. Hopefully we'll be able to go more often this year.

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夏祭り 2015 (Natsu Matsuri)

Hey guys!
My Summer break is about to be officially over! But! I got the chance to go to a Natsu Matsuri (Japanese Summer festival) as my last trip out of the city.
And even tho the event wasn't as big as I thought it would be, the whole environment and people there made it all nice and fun.

There were some fun contests, yummy food and some goodies to buy. SO many cute families and...sake! YUM!
I went with my dad and sister and we had a really good time. The place was really pretty with big gardens and stuff.
They also had Ikebana classes but, I'm not good with flowers so...I just watched from afar~ hehe.

The festival was 2 days long, we only went on Saturday but, it was worth it. I did bought a few things but mostly food, sweets and yeah, sake. I actually wanted to be part of the Sake contest but the day was just too hot so we kinda left early. And now that I think about it...I also missed the sake degustation because the family was so anxious to eat first~~~~

Food was just great! My sister and I had bento while my dad decided to try a hot-dog with yakisoba on top and some okonomiyaki.

My yummy food!

Definitely want to come back next year!