Friday night two things happened that were blog-worthy – I met Yoshi in Tarumi and we had a very delicious meal, and Kuniko had a slight hiccup in the plans for her school trip to Vancouver.

While Yoshi and I were eating some very traditional foods in an izakaya in the backstreets of Tarumi, Kuniko was flying with her students from Itami airport in Osaka to Narita airport in Tokyo.

By the time Yoshi and I had started eating the sea bream head served on a platter one of Kuniko’s students decided that maybe this trip wasn’t the best idea for her, and asked to go home instead.

That meant that the other teacher on the trip took the students on the original flight, and Kuniko took the student who changed her mind back to Tokyo station to wait for her parents to come on the bullet train to pick her up.

Around midnight the parents arrived to get their daughter, and Kuniko had to go get a hotel and stay overnight in Tokyo to catch the same flight the next day.

She kept me posted on developments during the evening, and eventually she got a flight yesterday. It was just a trick to kill a day in Tokyo without adding to her luggage that she was already bringing.

As for me, I spent Saturday by myself doing the usual stuff: walking around town trying to burn calories, shopping for groceries for the week, doing laundry and listening to music. I grilled some chicken and pork for tacos, and an hour after I covered up the barbecue and brought in the laundry it started to sprinkle outside. This morning it is pouring outside, so it looks like my timing was good.

Today I’ll probably relax indoors and enjoy the sound of the rain in the background. Tomorrow it is back to work, and I’ll be on a media blackout until after I see the Lost finale.