What a nice weekend. Saturday Kuniko came over with some furniture from her place so I put it in storage in my spare room here. She also had lots of little household things to give me, so I’m slowly absorbing what used to be “hers” into what will eventually be “ours”.
In the evening we went over to the yakitori to deliver souvenirs from our trip to America, and we had a great meal there. Kuniko had me trying some things that I didn’t know were on the menu, including an interesting rice dish that had hot tea added – yum!
Kuniko stayed over Saturday night, and it will be interesting to get her parents’ reaction – maybe it’s best to do this early on so they know what to expect. Sunday we took a long walk inside the park on the little man-made island to the south of town. Afterwards we went into Okubo to do some shopping, have lunch, see a movie (National Treasure), and to visit a part-time teacher from my school who is doing part time work somewhere else until she can land another teaching job.
The part time work was at an interior design place that specialized in kitchens, bathrooms, etc. She was there to help people that were taking the tour and she led them through a drawing for a small door prize. We chatted with her a while, and tried to look interested in some things so that her boss wouldn’t come down on her. We pulled a prize out of a box and got a ramen kit, with three different kinds of ramen. The grand prize was a small bike for kids, and luckily we didn’t win that.
Now I’m back home and getting things in order around the house – tomorrow it’s back to work!
