やっと夏休み！亀清の息子たちが朝に早く起きて、ラジオ体操をやっています。外の温度が段々と上がっています。甲子園の高校野球がもう時期。そろそろせみの鳴き声も聞こえてくるかな？
夏休みの為のプランとして何が良いかと悩みました。他の宿を見れば、カブトムシ採取やパン作り体験等、色々あるようです。
でも、周りにその感じな「夏休み体験」をやっているところが多いです。さらしな古代体験パーク（亀清から車で５分）で縄文時代のいろんな体験ができるし、にしざわ貯金箱館（亀清から歩いて５分）で子供達が喜ぶキャラクター貯金箱の展示会をやっているし、お子さんが楽しめる「体験」はたっぷりあります。
従って、もうちょっと亀清らしい独特なプランを作りたいな・・・と思った結果：
夏休みプラン： 若旦那と一緒に朝５時の座禅体験 ☆お子さん達は大歓迎☆
It's summer vacation -- the kids are out of school, temperatures are starting to heat up, the Koshien Highschool Baseball Tournament is about to start, and even the cicadas are starting to buzz. All signs of summer in Japan.
I've been pondering what type of "Summer Vacation Special" plan to make. Other ryokans offer bread making classes or bug collecting excursions -- a variety of things to keep kids occupied. But there are already so many things to do nearby, like the Sarashina Ancient Experience Park where you can make some prehistoric arts and crafts, or the Nishizawa Piggy Bank Museum, where for the summer they are displaying piggy banks with a "character" theme to you can see Japan's pop culture characters over the years via piggy banks.
So I decided to think about what Kamesei could do differently, something essentially "Kamesei". And I remembered the Zazen Meditation plan we did in the Spring. Perhaps some kids would want to try meditation during their summer vacation (or more likely, some parents would want their kids to try meditation...). On one of our websites, we reinstated the zazen plan. If anyone is interested, feel free to contact us.
にしざわ貯金箱館のHPはこちらClick here for Nishizawa Piggy Bank Museum website.
さらしなの里歴史資料館のHPはこちらClick here for the website of the Sarashina Ancient Experience Park
