Sunday - Cloudy but warmish
Today was an okay day.
I slept in this morning for the first time in a couple of days and it was lovely! F got up early and cooked breakfast for his mother. It was horribly stinky too, some kind of fish. Urgh.
I got up around noon I think, then got dressed. F and I talked about going out, but didn’t for a while. Then, he picked a restaurant and we went over there. It’s one I’m not a huge fan of, they serve ramen and curry. I don’t like their curry much and F doesn’t like their ramen but we can both eat something at least.
We left the restaurant around 3 pm, their closing time. I asked F if we could go over to the Oyama Nature Center as I just really felt like being out of the city and in a natural place. F was okay with that and we drove there through all the country roads. We saw a lot of swans in the fields and finally arrived at the nature center.
We parked and went for a walk. It was not warm, but it wasn’t cold either. There were a lot of people around, walking dogs or children, and for a change, a lot of birds. I’ve brought a friend there once and there were NO birds at all. She thought that I was making up the bird sanctuary bit!
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| Oyama Nature Center...with birds today! |
F and I walked back to the car, the long way around. It was nice to be out and about and in nature!
We drove back to Tsuruoka proper. On the way, I asked F to drive through some rice fields so I could get pictures of all the swans in the fields. We found a good place and took some pictures.
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| Siberian Swans come to Japan to spend the winter. They love the rice fields! |
We ended up at Doutor in S-Mall. We had a drink and spent some quiet time there. Over our drinks, F proposed that we get bentos for dinner. I wasn’t too pleased but whatever. I didn’t get a bento. I got some kara-age and a salad for myself, F got a bento for himself and K too.
We came back to the house and relaxed for an hour and a half. The original plan was to eat at 7pm, we waited until 7:30!
We went downstairs and I heated up the bentos and my food. We ate and then yes, I got to do the clean up afterwards. I guess it didn’t matter that much. I didn’t have to cook either.
I headed upstairs and watched a bit of YouTube. I then decided that I wanted to watch a movie, so I chose Death Race, the Jason Statham movie. F and I saw it in Mikawa years ago, it was silly but fun. The volume kept going up and down which was bad. The racing was loud, the conversations were really low.
And that’s about it. Tomorrow I’m cooking dinner, but I’m not really sure how that will go! Hopefully well! F is back to work for one day as Tuesday is a national holiday.
Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….
