Sunday - Sunny but cold in Sendai, cold and snowy in Tsuruoka
We're back! We got back a few hours ago and are lucky that we made it. The highway on the way home was awful, there was a winter storm and a big accident on the road that left us stuck in place for half an hour or more. I am jumping ahead again.
Saturday was a nice day. We had a lazy morning, then had lunch at Grado. F dropped me off at my school and I got busy. I spent a bit of time on paperwork and then my student called me just before class time to say she was unable to come.
I called F a little later and he picked me up and we set off on our way. On Saturday the road was nice and clear and we had sun up until the Sagae Rest Stop. Yay.
In Yamagata we had a fun dinner at Bikkuri Donkey and then went to our hotel. We found our room, but were a bit taken back by the gang of unsupervised children we found roaming the halls. The ones that ended up staying next door to us. That spent all night jumping on beds, slamming doors and yelling in the hall. Oh what fun.
We left for a while. I thought we might be able to see a movie, and we could have, but decided that we'd have to pay full price in Yamagata as we don't have membership cards. We decided instead to hit up the Starbucks, have a drink and then head back to the room and buy a movie card for the hotel room. They have a 500 yen card and we can watch as many films as we want for that. So, that's what we did.
We ended up watching Captain America, as it was the only Avenger backstory film that I hadn't seen. We quite enjoyed it. Hugo Weaving got to chew the scenery and was great as usual. I started watching Carnage with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslett, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz, but stopped it to watch Chuck. I went back to it later. I enjoyed the movie, the acting was fine, but the story was a bit odd.
I managed to do oodles of crochet while I was watching TV, so that made me rather happy! The clapochet is coming along nicely.
This morning, we had breakfast in the hotel and then headed out to Sendai. We parked near the Apple Store (yay!) and after lunch went in. The guy thought that my computer could be saved, so I ended up buying a back up drive and then later in the day, he walked me through re-installing everything. So complicated. My computer isn't out of the woods though. He said that the Hard Drive does have some problems, so I think I should make backing up a more regular thing.
I also bought myself a new power cord at the store. My computer's cord has been damaged and I didn't want to risk getting electrocuted! Expensive though.
In the time between my appointments at the Apple Store, F and I walked to the Aer building and I bought a few(!) postcards for Postcrossing. I'm feeling very behind as I have now received a few more than I have sent.
We left Sendai around 5:30. We stopped at a highway rest stop for dinner and it wasn't bad at all. We had gyutan on rice, with soup. We made a stop a little later for a washroom break and it was a good thing, because we were stuck on the highway in the snow for ages.
While we were waiting on the road, we saw a lot of highway vehicles go past us, and F said he counted 4 or 5 ambulances too. We passed some of the vehicles that were in the accident, I saw 3, but there could have been more. When we were able to move our car again, the road was covered in snow. It was really bad. Big gusts of wind and snow would come over a mountain and we couldn't see anything. Urgh. Scary.
When we got back to Tsuruoka, we bought groceries for tomorrow and then came home. We had a quiet and peaceful time at home. Whew. The wind is wuthering a bit outside, but we are inside and nice and warm now.
Tomorrow I'll do my best to bring my computer back to life. I didn't want to start tonight as I'm a bit tired and computers and tiredness aren't good things to bring together. I hope that my next update will be from my own computer. Fingers crossed, wish me luck, etc. Night!
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