June 7, 2026

 Sunday - Warm and Sunny, a bit muggy at night

Today was another good day. Woot. I woke up around 9:30 and made a trip downstairs. I came back to the room and had a bit of a snooze. Before I woke up, I had the oddest dream that I was out with F somewhere and I ended up sitting next to Ethan Hawke. He was eating fries with maple bacon in them and I asked him how they were. He passed them over to me and invited me to grab a couple! Then, I introduced him to F and a couple of minutes later I woke up!

F and I talked about where to have lunch and then I suggested going to have yakiniku in Tsuruoka. F liked that idea, so few minutes later we left the house and went to the restaurant. It wasn’t too busy so we got in right away. We both ordered the same meal and a few minutes later we were grilling our meat and eating the rest of the included food. It was nice.

After lunch, F suggested going out of the city to the Aquarium. I wasn’t sure it was a good idea as weekends are busy there, but we could park fairly close today and went in. 

Assorted Jellyfish!

As always it was lovely seeing the beasties in the aquarium. We had a nice walk around. It was crowded today, but the people were mostly moving around and everyone was in a good mood. At the end, we just bought ourselves drinks at a vending machine and then headed back into Tsuruoka.

I asked F if he was interested in getting a kakigori and he said he was. We talked about where to go and came up with some ideas. One of the places didn’t sell them, another place was closed, so we ended up at Komeda and I had a kakigori. I tried the Acai-mix one and it was amazing. F had soft ice cream and it was huge, and looked good. 

Acai Mix Kakigori at Komeda Coffee

We left after a while and came back to the house so that F could make dinner for his mother. I came upstairs to rest for a while. When F finished, he came upstairs and we talked about where to eat or what to eat. I suggested a few places and F liked Coco Ichibanya, the curry place. We decided to go there.

We went to the curry place and got the last parking space in the main area. We went in and ordered. F got a seafood curry and I got the handmade chicken cutlet curry with vegetables. It was really nice. 

After our dinner, we headed to the grocery store and bought food for the next couple of days. F came in the store with me but he wasn’t annoying tonight! Maybe it was because I knew what I needed and picked it up. 

F paid and we drove back to the house. I put away the groceries and F made some rice for tomorrow I think. I went upstairs and relaxed for a while. I put on an episode of The Boys, I think the second last one, and then an episode of Eugene Levy’s The Reluctant Traveller on AppleTV. It was a bit meh but I wanted something chill for the end of the day.

I spent some time doing my end of day things and then started to write this. I’ll probably post this and get to bed really soon. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….