We woke up naturally this morning, with my phone turned off so no annoying facebook crap.  After a shower we went to breakfast.  We wanted to go to the food court area across from the hotel, but it was closed!  We couldn’t believe it, as it was nearly 8.30.  So we ended up at a Pronto bar in the train station.

After breakfast we went back to our room to re-pack everything, and checked out of the hotel.  We walked around the train station, and caught a 10.02 train back to Tokyo.  I spent the trip on the laptop, tidying emails, and working on a number of things.  We got to Tokyo about 1.30, and made our way to the north bound Shinkansen section.  We didn’t have reserved seats for this leg of the trip – even though it would be free for me (with my JR Pass), it would cost an extra $10 for Kaoru, and because we were getting on at Tokyo (start of the line) with time to spare, we thought we’d take the gamble.  We bought some food while we were waiting, but were at the front of the line so the gamble paid off – we got a seat.

More work (and blogging) and we eventually arrived at Nasushiobara.  We then changed for Kuroiso (one stop) where Okaasan and Ottosan picked us up.  We started by going to the field to pick some vegies.  It had really taken off with the weather!  We then went to visit the owner of the field to drop some vegies off, and pick some up from them, and then we finally arrived at the house.  We sat outside and had a drink and snack until the bugs got to be too annoying – they were bitey ones, but not serious bites.

We went inside for dinner, which was sashimi and chicken, served with sake (with Okaasan) and beer (with Ottosan).  We ate for an hour or so – it was sooo delicious!  Dessert was strawberries with milk and sugar (but no strawberry spoon :().  After dinner we skyped Mum and Dad to say hello, watched TV for a while, had a bath and called it a day.