This is a family of early risers. I could hear the kids downstairs doing homework, looked at the time and it wasn’t even 6.00! It had been a very windy night last night and the noise kept me up quite a lot. Because Kaoru and i were upstairs we had it the loudest – especially as we had lots of windows. So i was in no rush to get up.

I came downstairs at 8.00 and could smell food as soon as i opened the bedroom door. Everybody else was upuh so we had breakfast not long after. Then Kenichi and i got the router set up for when okasan and Otosan get Internet. The router Kenichi had bought didn’t reach to the second house so i showed him the ones i use for datascore and suggested he see if he can find them in Japan.

I had some work to do so spent the next couple of hours dealing with emails and high priority items. Then we went to lunch. We went to the same place we took Michael and Leila to when we arrived at nasu. But this time we got fishing rods and caught fish to eat. between the 3 girls we easily had enough fish. They were really biting today! So lunch was noodles followed by the cooked fish, salted and served while on a skewer. Really nice, although the small bones were a bit scratchy in my throat.

Kenichi, Kozue, Yukari and Minami had to leave from here so we said goodbye and went back to the house at Nasu. I dealt with a bit more work while Otosan had a sleep and the women chatted. At a bit before 3.00 we got in the car and drove to the train station and had a quick goodbye as we will be seeing okasan and Otosan again tomorrow. Mio, Arisa, Kaoru and i caught the Shinkansen back to Tokyo. There we said goodbye to them, and they caught a taxi home. We caught a train back to Nishikasai and walked from there.

Next job – let’s see what our weight is like. So we got our suitcases and shuffled things around. We had Kaoru’s massage table which was 18kg.we had already bought 65 kilos so hoped we could fit in there. We were very borderline. I wanted to buy a couple bottles of rare breed and worked out for an extra $37 in baggage we could save $80 from melbourne prices. Can’t argue with that logic. So we made the decision and eliminated the stress.

It was about a 30 minute walk to the supermarket we wanted to go to. I wanted to buy a 6 pack of beer for tomorrow, which came with a Suntory premium glass. We also bought some food for breakfast. Then we caught the free bus back to Kasai and went to an izakaya for dinner. We had a nice meal which included takoyaki in cheese! Then we went to the cheap alcohol shop for the rare breed, and walked home. A bit of pottering around the house, some work, and it was bedtime.