17 Cherry blossom festival

It was already 25 march, the starting of the cherry blossom festival in Japan. So, Selina along with Reo and Evan planned to bring both Alora and Merry to enjoy this festival together with them before they would move out to their new house. They decided to enjoy this beautiful festival at various destinations in Tokyo as it was the first of Alora to participate in a festival in Japan. Such as- Shinjuku Gyoen, Ueno Park, Chidorigafuchi, Sumida park. It was not only for their enjoyment but also was for the refreshment for everyone to get rid of their stress as all of them busy with the moving out of Alora and Merry after their declaration of this decision.

And Selina also planned to surprise Merry by inviting Johnathan to join together with them to enjoy the festival as a happy family gets together with the help of Reo.

Alora was excited to have a visit to all the destinations they decided to go to during this festival as she had already heard about so many interesting things about this festival from her friends while she was in Britain.

Then according to their planning, they went to enjoy the cherry blossom scenery together on the following day as both Merry and Alora were going to move out to their new house on the next day.

And their first destination was Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Once they reached there it was a huge surprise for Alora. The view she got to see was so beautiful that it mesmerized her. In the large garden full of about 1100 cherry trees bloomed with beautiful cherry flowers, it was looking so beautiful as a paradise. And also by having different blossoming with the different kinds of cherry trees, it was making the garden a specially attractive viewing spot.

"Wow, Aunt Sea... it's so beautiful. I have never thought that it was going to be this much beautiful. ", said Alora happily.

"Yes, dear. The view here is so beautiful that it can mesmerize anyone.", said Selina while enjoying the view.

"But it's sad that the cherry blossom only appears for a week or two...", said Reo while patting Alora's head.

"Hmm, Uncle Reo, I have heard about it from my friends. But still, I am so happy to visit it this year with you all.", said Alora cheerfully.

"Oh... Wow... So, our little devil knew about the cherry blossom festival before.", said Evan in a teasing voice.

"Yes, of course. I had Japanese friends back there in Britain.", said Alora annoyingly for Evan's teasing.

"Ok then, let me hear about what you know about cherry blossom festival, Miss little devil.", Evan said again in a teasing voice while messing Alora's hair.

"Humph... Ok then, Listen. Cherry blossoms are a symbol flower of the spring, a time reveal and the fleeting nature of spring. Their life is short after their beauty peak around two weeks, the blossoms start to fall during this season. Here in Japan, people like to have cherry blossom parties with family, friends, and, colleagues.", said Alora proudly.

"Wow... impressive. Our little cry baby knows a lot about cherry blossom.", said Evan while smiling and patting Alora's head.

"Indeed, our baby Alora is knowledgable, Am I right, Merry???", said Selina happily while looking at Merry.

"Yes, True. Our Alora...", Before Merry completed her sentence someone blocked her vision by closing her eyes with both palms of one's hands by coming from behind. Merry slowly touched both hands which were covering her eyes with her both hands and said surprisingly, "Johnathan, it's you."

"This is not fair... You always recognize me.", said Johnathan while removing his hands from Merry's eyes and hugging her happily.

"Of curse. I can recognize you always no matter what. But how come you are here??? I thought that you are busy.", said Merry while hugging Johnathan back happily.

"Yeah, I was busy but I heard from Reo that Selina wants to surprise you. So, for you, I decided to join.", said Johnathan while letting Merry go from his hug and holding her hands.

"Really... Thank you so much, Selina and Reo.", said Merry happily while holding Johnathan's hands.

"Ow...How cute... My romantic love birds. Reo, you should learn from them.", said Selina in a teasing voice while pretending to be mad at Reo.

"You know that I love you so much, Sea.", said Reo happily by hugging Selina and she buried her face in his chest by being shy because of his sudden confession while Merry and Johnathan were smiling at them by holding their hands.

"Chessy elders...", said Evan and Alora to themselves together while watching them.

"Wow... Miss cry baby our thoughts match so well. I didn't know that.", said Evan while putting his hand right on Alora's shoulder.

"Ufff... Evan, stop putting your heavy hands on me and let's give them some space.", said Alora while throwing Evan's hand away from her shoulder.

"How rude... Wild kitty. But I like your idea. Let's give them space and give a try to food stalls here.", said Evan smiling at Alora and she nodded to Evan's words as agreeing to him.

"Hi, the young man and my little princess. How are you two doing???", said Johnathan while waving hands towards Alora and Evan.

"I am fine, Uncle Johnathan... Me too...", said Evan first and then Alora. Johnathan smiled gently to them after hearing their replies.

"Enjoy your time all of you. Uncle-Aunt and Mom-Dad, I am going to check some food stall with this little thing.", said Evan while grabbing Alora's hand and pulling her to go.

"Ok... Evan. Call us if you find a better place. We will join you two in a while.", said Reo happily while others were watching them disappeared in the crowd happily.

"Young people nowadays. They are so cute together.", said Selina happily.

Then while elders were busy spending their time together as couples, Evan took Alora to try various sweets and souvenirs with a cherry blossom theme as it was also a part of Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Although Evan was busy with pulling Alora's leg often as he liked to enjoy Alora's cute angry face, he didn't let go of Alora's hand for the once in that whole while. He was holding her hands gently and took Alora to every place she wanted to go without complaining and was also protecting her from the crowd as much as he could. After a while, Reo, Selina, Johnathan, and Merry also joined them.

After spending quality time together in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden happily, they bid goodbye to their first destination even without wanting to leave and started for their second destination, Ueno Park.

Once they reached Ueno park all of them were mesmerized with its beauty. The park was having around 800 cherry trees. The park was having a beautiful cherry blossom view that was adding its beauty more like a paradise. While discovering the park ahead they could see that most of the cherry trees were in the center street of the park. The park was full of visitors from local and abroad and everyone was busy admiring its beauty. It was a sea of people with beautiful cherry blossoms.

After having some quality time there, they bid goodbye to Ueno park and started their journey to their third destination, Chidorigafuchi Park.

Once they reached Chidorigafuchi Park which was a popular cherry blossom viewing spot, they could see about 1000 cherry trees bloomed with beautiful cherry flowers that creating beautiful scenery to enjoy for the viewers there. They took couples of pictures of them as a family, couples, siblings, friends with the view of beautiful cherry trees along with the stone walls of Edo Castle in the background.

Then they decided to take a walk by dividing into groups like Merry and Johnathan, Reo and Selina, and, Evan and Alora. Everyone enjoyed their time in that breathe taking beautiful scenery of Chidorigafuchi Park among the cherry trees. While the romantic elders were busy in having sweet time, Evan and Alora were busy with pulling each other's legs and making trouble for each other. But Evan was so careful about Alora's safety without letting her know about it.

After gathering together again six of them bid goodbye to Chidorigafuchi Park after having sweet time together and then having lunch together, they again stared for their another destination, Sumida park.

Once they reached to Sumida Park, after having a little walk around under the beautiful cherry trees they decided to take a boat to enjoy the view of cherry blossom to make their memory unforgettable. The view of cherry blossoms was more mesmerizing while it was enjoyed from the boat. Although Alora had visited a lot of beautiful places with her granny in different countries the views she enjoyed so far in the cherry blossom festival was the best for her. It was her first time having fun with a whole family even she missed her granny but she was very happy with Reo and Selina's sweet talks along with Merry and Johnathan's parents' love beside Evan's mischiefs.

It was almost the sunset when they got out of Sumida Park after spending one of the memorable times of the day and then they started to have meals and to enjoy one more beautiful cherry blossom view to their last destination of the day, Megurogawa or Meguro River.

Megurogawa or Meguro River was having 800 cherry trees blossom which was stretched from the Ikejiri-Ohashi area to Kamenokobashi under the Tokyo Meguro Line. There was no facility such as a park but anyone could enjoy the cherry blossom viewing while enjoying their drinks and meals in the cafes and restaurants along the river. Once they reached there they went to a restaurant nearby to enjoy the view of cherry blossom while having their meals. All six of them took a seat together to enjoy their meals with the best view of cherry blossom at Megurogawa. At night along with the lights of the restaurant, the view of cherry blossom was having a new form of beauty that couldn't be described by words. The beautiful view of cherry blossom at Megurogawa was adding more specialty to the memories of this festival.

After enjoying their meal together all of them returned home with the sweet and happy memories of the cherry blossom festival.

Johnathan decided to stay at The Ito Mansion because of Reo and Selina's request. After getting fresh to get rid of the tiredness of the journey they made the whole day, they all gathered together to spend some more time together before going to bed as it was the last night of the staying of Alora and Merry at The Ito Mansion.