We’ve been using every weekend lately for mainly shopping and eating. For me, hiking has fallen out of the equation due to the hot weather that won’t seem to go away. October will be here in a couple of weeks, though, so I’m trying to organize a weekly hike on Sunday when the weather is cooler.
Friday night we had dinner at Baan Sukhotai in Sannomiya. It is the sister restaurant of Baan Thai, which is our favorite Thai restaurant in our area. Baan Sukhotai was good, but not quite as good as the original. We accidentally over-ordered (the portion sizes were much larger than we expected) so we had to take some home with us, but other than that it was a very nice meal. They made the curry spicy for us, and that really got the sweat going. Yum.
Saturday we went over to visit Risa and Anthony and their new baby son, Kohki. He is four months old now, and was really cute. It had been a long time since we’d been over to see them, and they also had a new dog – a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. So much cute in one house… Risa made a shepherd’s pie for our lunch, and we spent time in the afternoon watching funny videos that Anthony had collected. They even sent us home with some hot peppers and hot sauce from Brunei.
Sunday morning we drove off to Costco, and got in and out of there in record time. The thing with Costco in Amagasaki is that they open earlier than the posted time, and if you arrive early you can shop without other customers clogging up the aisles. So whenever we arrive it is like a race against time, as gradually it gets busier and busier. Usually by the time we leave there are very long lines at the registers, but this time it wasn’t so bad at all.
Back home we watched a couple of movies (Pale Rider, In Her Shoes) and had enchiladas purchased from Costco for dinner. Now today I’m off to work, but the rest of Japan has the day off. Luckily I’ll get this day back next week…
