Karuizawa 2014 Late Summer

It's just a familiar place as you know.
毎度お馴染みのこの場所。

Yes. It's where Terry's favorite one.
But it took more than 6 hours to get there due to incredible heavy traffic.
Occasionally it took more than half an hour for just 3 kilometers distance.
It was after 2 pm when we could have our lunch.
そう、テリー君が行きつけのお店です。
しかし今回は大渋滞で、ここに行き着くまで６時間以上もかかってしまいました。
たった２㎞の距離が３０分以上かかるところもありました。
お昼を食べたのは２時過ぎでした。

Look at Terry. He shows his tang when he saw his meal.
ご飯を見た途端、舌が出ているテリー君でした。

After the meal, Terry was well behaved himself, waiting for human's meal time over.
He can't miss his fun time at leash-free dog park at all.
食事の後は、よい子にして待つテリー君。ママと叔母ちゃんの食事が済むのを待ちます。
そしてドッグランでの遊びは絶対ハズせません。

Poor Terry. That incredible delay made his fun time shorter. Since we need to reach this shop before their business hour would be over.
可哀相なテリー君。大渋滞での遅延のためゆっくり遊べなかったのです。何故ならこのお店が閉まってしまうから。

This is Terry Mama and Auntie Nobue's favorite shop. We need to be there.
そう、ここはママと叔母ちゃんが絶対ハズせない店なんです。

We knew that there would be another heavy traffic on the way back home. So we decided to have some meal at our other favorite place. We had light meal and took a rest.
帰り道も渋滞は必至。その為の対策として、次なるお気に入りの店で軽めの夕食事をとって体を休めました。

Of course we purchased our "must have" thing, "Kamameshi" though. There are no photos. So I uploaded my old photo.
恒例行事の釜飯も買って帰りましたが、画像はありませんので、以前撮影した物を。

It took more than 10 hours as the round trip. The actual distance is less than 400 kilometers anyway.....
We stayed Karuizawa for only 3 hours or so.
Oh what a "great" tour we have had......boo, hoo, hoo.....
往復４００㎞程の距離を１０時間以上もかけて、現地滞在は僅か３時間ほどという、トホホな軽井沢ツアーでした。