I slept in this morning, made up a batch of chilequiles, and even managed a phone call to the folks before I hit the road to Osaka. I met Kuniko under the giant TV in Umeda aptly named “Big Man”. For once I saw her before she saw me, and together we caught the subway to Nanba in search of some shoes to properly cover my freakishly large feet.<\/p>\n
To make a long story short, we didn’t find none. We found a few shoe stores, but nobody had anything that looked good. Kuniko and I gave up around three o’clock, and we went back to her place to plan dinner. <\/p>\n
I brought along a bottle of Jacob’s Creek Reserve Shiraz that I had bought in Australia, and together we had that with some ginger pork and vegetables. It was so good. To wrap up the day we watched television for a while. <\/p>\n
Japanese television for me holds seemingly endless fascination. I can understand very little of what is going on, but Kuniko will sit next to me and laugh and laugh. I always seem to be there on Saturday nights, so I’m familiar at least with the shows. They are really crazy – hard to imagine anything like these flying in the U.S.A. <\/p>\n
We had bought a couple of pieces of cake from a local bakery, and so that was our wicked dessert. Tomorrow the plan is to search again for shoes – my fingers are crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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