on sunday, the local department store concluded it's baby fair (a sale on baby things) by having a crawling contest. hiroyuki can really scoot around now so i thought it would be fun to go. it was to start at two p.m., so we got there at around 1:30. it turns out you had to pre-register. we could still join, but only 'race' once and not for the actual prizes...ah well. we signed up anyway and waited for nearly two hours for hiro's turn. it was really quite late in the afternoon--many babies were tired and wanted their naps. even hiro started getting tired. finally, it was his race! i set him at the start line and yoshi waited at the finish line. go! but hiro just sat there looking cute. and he was very very cute. but he didn't move at all! i must admit i was disappointed at the time (didn't want a prize, but i did want him to crawl a bit at least...) but he was cute and the spectators thought so. and, he received a box of senbei (rice crackers), so it wasn't a complete waste of time...