A good day. Despite planning to go to bed earlier last night, I didn’t. I stayed up quite late again, so slept in this morning. Still, it wasn’t too bad. Today was a national holiday, so we both relaxed and lazed around the house. F did go for a walk by himself when I was sleeping though.
In the afternoon I started to be very hungry. Yesterday I hadn’t eaten that much protein and I really needed some! We went to Gusto for a decent lunch. I had spicy chicken and salad, F had noodles, of course!
After lunch we talked about what to do. F suggested driving out to Takadate-yama and climbing the tower to see the view. I wasn’t sure, but then realised that I didn’t have any better suggestions and we hadn’t been there for a while. So, I said okay.
We drove out to the mountain and drove up. It’s a bit scary as the road is narrow, but we didn’t meet anyone else on the mountain until the top. F parked the car off the road and we walked to the tower. We climbed up the steps and got to the top. I was huffing and puffing rather a bit too much. Sigh. The view was gorgeous. On one side of the tower we could see the flat rice fields and the mountains, on the other side was the ocean and more mountains. It was really beautiful.
We climbed down the tower again and drove down the mountain. We drove off to Yura along the coast. The sea was very choppy today. There weren’t many people out fishing or on the ocean. We parked the car and went across the bridge to Hakkusanjima. My knees were protesting a bit because of the tower climbing, but I managed it. We found a little statue dedicated to the memory of members of the Japan Navy that had been killed while checking the weather or sea conditions or the course for big ships and took a few photos of it. There was a little bed of plants near it. The plants were shiso and perhaps lilies, but were a bit crowded by grass and other plants. There was nobody around, so F and I did a little bit of guerilla weeding. It looked much better after we finished.
We headed back into Tsuruoka proper and talked about dinner. We decided to go to Sultan, the Arabic restaurant. I was looking forward to some baba ganoush. However, when we got there, it wasn’t on their menu anymore. Instead, we had hummus instead, and that was nice. F had a type of ramen and I had a type of stew served over rice. We were both quite happy with our meals. We got some mint tea afterwards too. It was a really nice and different way to end the meal.
We came home via the grocery store and at home just relaxed for a bit. F did some translating for me and I spent entirely too much time on my computer! We had a really nice time together. Hurray.
Got to go..work tomorrow. Night!
2 comments:
Sounds like a good way to spend Marine Day!
It was thanks! I didn't expect much yesterday, but had a good time.
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