Foliage with Friends

On Thursday, my FIK mom buddies Tomiko and Reiko took me leaf peeping Iwate-style. We saw some great foliage, a huge lava flow with columnar basalt, several hot springs, and ate some yummy food. We had wood fired pizza and imoni- a fall taro & meat stew common in Tohoku, for lunch followed by ice cream from the locally famous Matsubokkuri (Pine Cone Ice Cream). Matsubokkuri makes their own ice cream in many traditional Japanese flavors. I tasted ‘sesame seed’, ‘cheese’, ‘salt’, and ‘mountain grape’ ice cream for the first time. They were all pretty tasty! It was a fun morning and we are all looking forward to our next mom’s morning out!

An awesome lava flow with columnar basalt at the base

Hot springs in the rain