Last weekend Kuniko and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary by going out to dinner on Friday night to Anonym. As usual we had a great dinner, and although he kept us guessing with some of the dishes, we found a couple of things we didn’t care for this time around. Still, the guy is genius and I am perfectly willing to accept a couple of misses considering how often he hits.
Saturday Kuniko was off to work, and I met Yoshi in Sannomiya to climb the hills for a while. This was the first time that I’d been hiking since my daily exercise bike regimen started, and I was pleasantly surprised with how much energy I had. Yoshi also noticed that I seemed to be operating on a higher gear than normal, so I guess this daily exercise stuff really works.
We got up to the top of the mountain to a place called Morimura tree park. We paid a paltry 300 yen and entered the park to have lunch. The place was pretty nicely kept up, and I had no idea that it was even there. I’m really happy that we live so close to the mountains – the range behind Kobe is always surprising me.
After lunch among the changing leaves we headed down the hill and walked right past Kuniko’s school on the way down. In all it was about a five hour hike, and I was really glad to be back on the trail. It’ll start to get cold soon, and hiking is a lot more of a hurried affair when it is too cold to stop and rest now and then.
Sunday Kuniko and I vegged out at home watching movies and letting her recharge her batteries, and then it was back to work today. At the end of this week I have a couple of year end parties on the schedule, so I’m hoping to burn off a few calories before then.
