Today I got up relatively late and spent the morning cleaning up and doing laundry – not so exciting. The weather was beautiful, however, and the rising temperatures have been a welcome change. Just the other day I retired my electric blanket and now I’m contemplating the air conditioner. Wow.
The gameplan originally was to meet up with Kuniko in Sannomiya after her work ends at around 6:30. She called me a little earlier, though, and so I went in to meet her at the station around 4:00 p.m. While I was waiting around the station a Jehovah’s Witness dude chatted me up in English. I made it clear that today was not the day when I was going to discover religon, and so he was reduced to idle chatter about the bible. I was just about to bring up the dinosaurs when Kuniko showed up, and saved me from being saved.
We walked around Kobe for a bit, killing time by walking through the SOGO department store. Soon we started getting hungry, so we headed over to look for the restaurant. The name of the place was called “Slow Moon Dining”. It was a cheese oriented restaurant – all of the dishes are based around cheese. That’s fine by me.
We sat on the floor and ordered a couple of glasses of wine and lots of dishes to try. We had a salad (with smoked gouda cheese), an appetizer plate of cheeses (gouda, blue cheese, some kind of soft creamy cheese, camenbert, and some yellow cheese that might have been straight cheddar.
Then we moved on to the entrees – a creamy cheese and avocado dish with salmon and some other fish along with a quail egg and salmon eggs on top. We also had some fried bacon and cheese pouches that were greasy but good, and finally a cheese risotto dish wrapped in spinach that rocked my world. It was the best risotto that I’ve ever had – a perfect balance of texture and flavor, without getting to greasy. We had cheesecake for dessert, but it didn’t measure up to Kuniko’s homemade cheesecake. I had forgotten that she had made it for me for my birthday in two years ago – big trouble!
After dinner we walked around Sannomiya a bit, and then caught the train back to Akashi. In Akashi we picked up some donuts at Mister Donut just to cash in on some donut points that Kuniko had. Now we have a Mister Donut tarp – oh yeah.
I convinced Kuniko to come over to my place for the night, and we came back and relaxed around the house before hitting the hay. I’m still sore from my hike the other day, and Kuniko has been working through the weekend, so she’s exhausted too. Lucky we have three days off in the middle of next week!
