Slower paced!
Friday, March 21. 2025
"Good day, Sunshine"!
There is no required alarm time this morning! Sakurako has school but she's in the townhouse next door and doesn't impact us! Around eight or eight-thirty Satchiko knocks on our door and asks if pizza is good for breakfast. Of course it is! We finish getting dressed (I actually did some yoga for the first time in a long time. I was able to hang my head down without feeling like it was a baaad idea!) The three of us each have two warm slices and Japanese tea.
Ginger had been surprised there wasn't a bruise from her misadventure. I
guess she wasn't looking in the right place!!
Soon Satchiko asks if we'd like to visit her girl friend, Kioko, across the street. Of course we would she's a hoot and she even came with Satchiko when the family came to the states. We go all the way around the block so that we can come in the front door and be properly greeted! She has prepared tea and snacks for us and has mastered the translation app on her phone so we can have a real conversation! Such an improvement! There is a lot of laughing and eating. We learn that her husband died in a car crash eighteen years ago and that she has two sons; but they aren't married and she doesn't expect grandkids. At one point Satchiko shows us her screen that says "I'm glad I'm divorced." Ginger agrees!
Comparing translation apps! Such an elegant tea! And look at the orange tea! It looks like it should be sweet, but it's savory! And then a cup of green tea. And another treat! This one is a sandwich cookie with
a creamy filling
Tomorrow the four of us old ladies are going to the town where Kioko was born and we will have a lot of fun - she told us so! We'll eat and walk and laugh!
This is Kioko's family shrine. The symbol in the center of the bottom section
is her family's crest. She and Satchiko are actually cousins!!
When we leave, it is by the back door and, yes, there's our house right across the little street!!
Such a lovely Japanese garden!
Andy says it's time to gather everyone for a trip to the mall. Apparently lunch will be at the food court, or, as they call it, their dining room! Too many choices and too much food! How do these little people put away such volume?? Then we go to the grocery store for exotica for us! We had an orange tea and, it turns out, is made by putting a particular brand of orange marmalade in the bottom of the cup and just adding hot water!! Who'd a thunk it? And in a different store Satchiko finds the Burdock chips that Ole wanted last time! And we find the snackies that were so good at the mochi place!
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| Huge play area for the kids! |
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| Mega food court |
There are at least four cars here that aren't white!! Japan's version of Jeep Ducks?
At home we find that Tae has done Ginger's laundry and fixed my earrings that she made for me years ago! We're both very happy. We finish all but the last three piece of the puzzle and when Sakurako comes in she polished it off in no time! There seems to be a Star Crush tournament going on that has everyone's attention, so I have a little time to do some catch up~!
Oh my goodness there's another three course dinner! Miso soup, those delicious sticky rice triangles, and a new recipe for potatoes and chicken that was a hit last week, so we get to try it too! And Iori grated the bonita flakes for the triangles!
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