"Theo Loves Japan" - Dancing in Akihabara

October 13 (Monday) was a national holiday in Japan, and for lack of something else to do, Theo and I decided to hang out in Akihabara (where else?, hahaha...). And on that day, there was a street performer who dished out some great songs just in front of Yodobashi Camera.

If you've been following this blog for quite some time, you'd know that ever since he was a toddler, Theo's body easily moves with the beat, esp. fast ones, and he has absolutely no qualms or inhibitions about dancing in public. This is one of the photos taken on that day when he danced in front of this performer for about 15 min (roughly 4 songs). Actually, he didn't want to stop dancing; I just had to drag him home because the people's attention was no longer on the performer but on him.

I've uploaded a sample video of him dancing on that day in 3 formats: MPEG4 (roughly 23.6 MB, for those with high-speed Internet connections and with Apple QuickTime installed in their PCs), WMV (roughly 14.2 MB, for those who prefer using Windows Media Player), and compressed MPEG4 (roughly 6.67 MB, for those with slow Internet connections; note that the size of this video is also very small).

I took this photo of him on the same day at a nearby shrine near Yanaka Park. Obviously, after all that dancing, he still had the energy to run around and climb some structures built for kids.

Sometime last week, Mommy D took Theo to Arakawa Yuenchi, where he enjoyed playing with some small, furry animals such as Guinea pigs and rabbits.

Obviously, he enjoyed this Guinea pig very much, whereas...

...this rabbit was a bit shy.

Another festival is being held this weekend (October 18-19) in the neighborhood, and this afternoon, I took him to a nearby park where he enjoyed running around with his yummy cotton candy.

At Nezu Shrine later in the day, however, he had his second serving of cotton candy and met his classmate, Emma-chan. At home, when we ask him who among his female classmates is his favorite, he would quickly say "Emma-chan daisuki!" (Translation: I like Emma very much!) We believe that he considers her like a younger sister although they are roughly the same age.