This was another casual starting day.  We woke up and got ready, and then Kaoru and I enjoyed a snack and tea in the lounge.  We went back to our room a bit after 11, and were joined by Julia, Andrew, Ella and James, for Ella’s 4th birthday party.  In our room, before our very eyes, James underwent the transformation to Akimbo.  I don’t think I have known a drag queen before!

We met up with Brett and Naomi, who were a little taken aback too!  Then made our way to the “Alice in Wonderland” restaurant for Ella’s birthday party.  Kozue (with Yukari and Minami) turned up not long after us, and so did a friend of Julia’s with her 4 year old.  The food wasn’t anything fantastic, but the themed restaurant was a bit of fun.

After paying the bill, Kaoru and I went to Meiji Shrine as it’s a special place to us (the first place Kaoru took me when we first met).  On the walk back home we decided a massage was in order, as we were, after all, on our honeymoon!  So Kaoru found a place near our hotel and we went there.

75 minutes later, I had had a relaxing sleep and had been tortured!  The pressure they were using was very firm, and the harder they pushed, the more tense I because.  So I don’t know if it was doing more good or bad, but it was time where we were alone together, and had nothing to think about.

Back at our room, James wasn’t there yet (I had given him my card as we didn’t know how long we would be, and his stuff was in there to get changed back to James for his flight home).  So Kaoru and I went up to the lounge for a couple of drinks and think about dinner.

We went back to our room about 6.00 and James arrived not long after.  He showered and transformed from Akimbo back to James, and the 3 of us had a couple of sake’s and a good chat.  Whilst we had spent the last week together, we hadn’t spent a lot of time with just the 3 of us, so it was good to get to know him a bit better.  I gave him a travel pack of sake, and we put him on the 7.50 bus to the airport.  I had received a message from Julia that they were having an early night, and would be at the hotel for a 6.50 bus tomorrow, so now Kaoru and I were going to spend our first night alone together!

So for our honeymoon dinner, we went to a restaurant on the 29th floor of a building across from our hotel.  We ate a caeser salad, a tofu course similar to one of those from our dinner with Kaoru’s and my parents, and….wait for it…..whale bacon!  It was quite interesting – very similar to a ham (funnily enough).  But we were both quite tired, especially as we were so relaxed from our massages, so we got some dessert from the convenience store in the hotel and retired.