I slept in a little bit, but was still up by 8.30.  My throat was sore – I later found out that I had been snoring during the night.  Which would explain why I felt very tired too.  Breakfast was leftover lobster with pasta and a tomato sauce.  Delicious!

We organised a few things, and then Kaoru and I had to leave.  It was raining today, and Yoichi drove us to the station rather than us walk, which was great.  Kaoru went to the convenience store to make payment for her Amazon order, and we went to the supermarket to buy some beer.  Then it was on the train to Yokohama for our customary visit with Ryu and Naoko.

Ryu met us at the train station and walked us to the house.  I had forgotten there were no steps to get to their new place – it was just up a hill.  He has been relocated to Kobe for work, so doesn’t spend a lot of time at home these days.  We gave Haruka a stuffed sting ray as her customary gift from Australia.  Naoko cooked some delicious prawns, and salad for lunch, and we drank a few beers and some sake, while we caught up.  We opened the cake we had brought for dessert which was delicious too.

We left a bit after 4.00, and it was nearly 6 by the time we got back to Mio’s.  We went to a sukiyaki / shaboo shaboo restaurant for dinner, where Mio gave us a Happy Anniversary card for tomorrow.  The shaboo shaboo sesame sauce had a bit of a nutty effect on me so I lost my appetite pretty quickly unfortunately, but soldiered through and managed to eat quite a bit.  We were all pretty stuffed by the time we left.

Once back home, I pretty much went straight to bed!