We had a busy but very enjoyable weekend. Friday night Kuniko was out at a party, so I took the opportunity to go out to Kanegasaki park to watch the fireflies. It was a little late in the season, but there were few fireflies floating around the creek. I walked there from our house, and stood alone for almost an hour watching them float around. Finally I headed back and had dinner on the way home at Junpu. The owner of the place was happy to see me and was my dinner companion while her sons worked the grill and picked up some English words from me.
On Saturday night we met up with the Fukumi’s for dinner at our favorite Spanish restaurant, Oliva in Sannomiya. The food was delicious as usual, but the conversation was great. The Fukumi’s recently found out that Sayaka is pregnant, so that made for a good topic to discuss. We also happened to run into our friend Mr. Ota from Okubo eating there with some friends. Exciting times!
After dinner we dropped in at wine bar “D” for a bottle of red and some cheese. It was good to introduce the place to Sayaka and Koki. We had an interesting journey home, with a drunken old man collapsing (by chance?) into Kuniko’s arms, and all the fallout from that.
Sunday we spent the day in recovery mode, sleeping late, doing odds and ends around the house, and then having a superb grilled steak with a caesar salad for dinner. We are pretty lucky with all we have, and we could really feel it this weekend.
