My bento supplies, garnered mostly from the 100 Yen shop

My weiner sculpting kit.

My first Weiner crabs and octopuses

Last Thursday, (or actually, a week ago last Thursday: time does march on), well, the boys had their first school trip. It was a whole school trip to a local park and this meant I needed to supply them with a packed lunch. In Japan this is called obento and *can* be a big deal. I made it a big deal. On my potential list of elements in the bento box was:

• weiner octopus
• rice balls
• pasta salad + olives
• cherry tomatoes and sticks of cucumber
• hunks of cheese
• dried mango
• wraps

I never did find any wraps, so I went with everything else and voila!