Today we slept in again, getting our sleep while we can. My back is still bothering me, so I popped some aspirin and did some stretches. Unbelievably bad timing, I’m telling you.
Kuniko and I had a long discussion about what to do about the photo albums for the wedding. Along the way I managed to hurt her feelings, we came up with three different ways to do it, and in the end decided to just do something very simple. Now I’m in the doghouse with a week left until the wedding.
We went to Kuniko’s parent’s place to pick up some wedding stuff, and a big blanket to keep us even warmer, as it’s getting colder these days. Then we stopped into a few stores on the way home. We went to Uniqlo, which is my favorite clothing store in Japan. While we were shopping there I bumped into one of my students. He is a cool third year student. My big memory of him was when Kuniko and I were teaching his class together. She used to walk by him and he got a dreamy look on his face. So you can imagine his surprise when she came walking up next to me and said hello. He didn’t know that we are married, so he asked if she goes shopping with all the English teachers – maybe Kimura sensei is next? It was a good joke, but I only got it after Kuniko explained it to me later.
But we weren’t finished breaking hearts. We left and went to lunch, and on the way back to the car parked in front of Uniqlo we walked by two women, one of whom I recognized as somebody I say good morning to every day on my way to work. She had a look of surprise, and I smiled and said hello, and Kuniko was wondering who that was, and I think everybody walked away surprised.
We stopped in at two more stores on the way home, and now we’re back here getting everything prepared to drop off at the wedding place tomorrow. Actually, I’m doing the website and Kuniko is doing all the preparing. I better wrap this up and help out. I’ll probably post a little more tomorrow before I head to Osaka to pick up the family. Maybe we’ll have a guest blogger soon!
