October 31, 2011

Monday - Happy Halloween!

A good day. I didn’t go to bed until late last night, but I did wake up early today and then I went back to sleep for a bit. I was in the hotel in Sendai and had slept fairly well, but not perfectly.

I got up finally, showered and then got dressed and made myself some cup pasta for a quick breakfast. I checked out and headed for the station. A very nice lady helped me find my way through the station maze (I was trying a new way for me) and then I stuffed my suitcase in a locker so I could go shopping.

I hacked around many of the good places around Sendai station today. My feet are so sore! I was surprised that the E.Beans building is being torn down. I wonder if it is due to quake damage, or just its time? It was an old building. I didn’t get close, but it seemed that the signs outside said it would be rebuilt.

I had lunch at our favourite gyutan shop under the station. I wanted something I don’t have all the time and something that I was more than reasonably sure wouldn’t make me sick! When you are on a bus for 2. 5 hours you don’t want to have stomach problems! I love Indian and Thai food, but had Indian food the night before and the Thai place I knew was under new management so was an unknown quantity now.

I bought oodles of postcards from a couple of places, got something for F’s birthday next month and some readers for my school. I enjoyed myself a lot.

I caught the bus back to Tsuruoka and F met me at the mall. We were happy to see each other. We had dinner at Cocos and even shared their dessert for Halloween, the mud pie. We were both really glad that we shared it as we both were too full afterwards. I think F was worse off than me. I’d had a salad, whereas he’d had jambalaya, so it was much heavier.

We came home and had a quiet evening together. I told him about my trip, he told me about his weekend. He did a little Postcrossing, I did a lot of email reading.

And that was it! I might try and update more tomorrow night if I remember. I’m quite tired so I’d like to get to bed early. Night!