Today I spent the morning and afternoon cleaning, vacuuming, and doing the domestics that my co-workers like to tease me about. When I tell them what I did this weekend, they will be very amused at the thought of a man doing laundry and cleaning house. My favorite response: “Who else is going to do it?”
Around four o’clock I jumped on a train and met Miss Kageyama at the JR station in Kobe. I owed her a dinner from a while back, so I had called a Brazilian restaurant and made reservations (in Japanese, no less) and set something up. We got to the restaurant about half an hour early, and had an all-you-can-eat (called “Viking” style in Japanese) Brazilian meal. It was quite good – and I ate big.
Miss Kageyama has been fighting off some flu symptoms, and she didn’t put away that much food, but I pitched in a bit and we kept both plates clean. After dinner we walked around and explored some of the shops in the area. The highlight – a store that sold clothes for dogs. You could dress up your dog like Winnie the Pooh, or in a baseball, hockey, or football jersey. They had cowboy outfits, a king’s robe complete with a crown, just lots of strange and surreal doggie outfits. They were all small dog sized – German Shepherds were out of luck.
We walked back along the waterfront and passed an “Old Spaghetti Factory” – one of my favorite restaurants from the U.S. It was pretty cold so we ducked into a Starbucks and had some hot coffee and warmed up a bit. Finally we went back to the station and called it an early night – we both have to work tomorrow at Takasago Minami High School.
