Saturday and Sunday were pretty laid back, actually. In fact it turned out that we went over to Kuniko’s parents’ place for dinner both nights.
The first night was to help Kuniko’s dad set up his new computer. He’s a pretty methodical guy, and he had highlighted all the steps he needed to take. Which buttons to push, when to check the checkboxes and when to uncheck them – everything was written down and highlighted in his manual. Thanks to that, it really was a pretty simple task and we had it done in about an hour.
One cheesy thing that I noticed was that the new computer was full of advertisements – unsuspecting new computer owners would sit there and stare at ads running right on your desktop without knowing any better. I turned them off, but who knows what will pop up once he connects the computer to the internet.
Another reason that we were there was to meet up with Kuniko’s sister Tomoko. She was there to spend the night and then her parents and her boyfriend and his parents were meeting for lunch somewhere to introduce each other. Late in the evening after dinner Tomoko invited Kuniko and I to join her for an hour of karaoke. I’m not big on karaoke, but the last time I declined I ended up sitting around Kuniko’s parents’ house for almost two hours while they went out and had fun. It was pretty boring last time, so I said I would go this time.
However, Kuniko uninvited me – so I had to sit around the house anyway. I guess I could understand why she did that… she wanted to spend some alone time with her sister and chat about her big meeting the next day. So they left, and I sat around with Kuniko’s parents and we talked about computers, watched TV, I studied some Japanese, I read a paper, watched Kuniko’s mom do her hair in the living room, and then after two and a half hours they came back.
Tomoko broke out some wedding planning materials for Kuniko to look over, and I realized that this was how she was kind of pre-announcing it to her parents. They saw the brochures, and then Tomoko kind of explained that the purpose of the meal tomorrow was to announce a wedding. Interesting approach. I could tell her folks were surprised, but I’m sure they had an inkling about this.
Anyway, from what I gathered that night the wedding is going to be on December 1st of this year. I’m looking forward to it!
