In a first for my life, I walked home last night in the snow. It has been snowing on and off the last few days, but yesterday was snowy enough to leave piles of snow on the ground. That meant that the trains were delayed, and I had to trudge through snow and mush to get to the station, and then walk through even more snow on the ground in Okubo.
This kind of thing just doesn’t happen much in California.
Luckily it was a good experience because of the sheer novelty of it. I can’t imagine doing that every day, though. Kuniko beat me home last night and cooked up some hot soup to welcome me home, along with some Valentine chocolate. Because it was so cold outside we spent most of the evening in the bath together warming up. Happiness is a giant automated Japanese bathtub.
