March 18, 2023

 Saturday - Cloudy and a little cooler

I went to bed at a decent time last night, but this morning decided to sleep in. F woke me up early on, I went downstairs and then went back to sleep. He got up and made something for his mother’s breakfast and took a shower before his massage. He came up to the room and then discovered that he was already late for his appointment. Oh, dear.

I slept on and then got up around 11:30.  I got dressed and waited for F to come back. I gave him a drink and then we discussed lunch. Of course, he wanted to go for ramen. Why does he do that? Does he really think I get to go for food I like often in Tsuruoka? With him? I dislike rice, don’t eat ramen and am ambivalent about Japanese noodles of any sort. I like Indian or Greek Food. He never wants to go for Indian food and there is no place around that served Greek food. So annoying really. 

Anyway, we came up with a few ideas for lunch. The first one didn’t work out as it was only open for reservations. We planned to go to one place, but on the way there, F suggested another. We went and neither of us liked the food, but at least he didn’t whine about not getting ramen. 

After lunch, we went for coffee at Starbucks. I had a tea latte and enjoyed the heck out of it. It was decaf too. After that, I picked up a bento for K and a few other things. We came back to the house and dropped off the food, then were off again.

We went over to Mikawa, found a decent parking space and then went into the mall. We bought our tickets and then went downstairs and had a drink at Doutors. F had to leave early so I gave him his ticket and told him I’d go upstairs.

I went upstairs a few minutes later and bought the popcorn and drinks. I was wondering where F was but I finally saw him making his way toward me. We went into the cinema and saw Shazam! Fury of the Gods.  I really enjoyed it. It wasn’t a great movie, but it was light, fun, and slightly silly.

After the movie, we came back to Tsuruoka and again had a discussion about dinner. F wanted ramen again. I did not. I suggested a family restaurant or Mos Burgers or later Keiten Sushi. That’s what we went for.

We went to the sushi place and were able to get in right away. I decided not to have too many fried foods tonight, so I turned a lot of things down. We shared an order of fries though, but I turned down most of the tempura on offer. I did have one shrimp tempura sushi thing that was okay. 

We came back to the house then and relaxed. I watched a little Apple TV and then my FBI show. 

That’s about it for my day. Tomorrow, we’re planning to go to Costco if we can get ourselves up and out in the morning. Wish us luck!

Until tomorrow….