Little World.
Somehow, even though we rarely make plans, we always wind up doing something on the weekends. Mami had called us to see if we wanted to eat dinner together and watch Prison Break with her. We love Mami so we said we’d love too. Sometime Saturday Mami called and said that instead we were all going to a BBQ held by our company’s owner.
Now, we know the owners and they know us. I wouldn’t say we are friends or anything like that, just sort of like professionally friendly. So we were surprised that they invited us to their home for a cookout.
It took roughly 11 months and 2 weeks for us to eat arguably the best meal in the country. Turns out that the owner is also a professional chef. It showed. I ate until I was full. Then I ate more. About the time I felt sick I slackened my pace, but I didn’t stop.
Jim also came back to Japan today. His job ran out in March and returned back to America in late April. Since Greg went to Vietnam to see his new daughter being born, that left MES in a pickle. So they paid for Jim’s ticket and he is back. He essentially had a 2.5 week vacation at home.
Today, Sunday, we went to a theme park with Ayumi and her family. Megan and Ayumi are like mother and daughter, but I have never really spent any time with Ayumi or her family. So we went to a place called, “Little World.”
This is really a “Theme park.” It has small areas in a park that are each themed around one country’s building style. There were a lot more countries than any of us anticipated. We got to this place around 11:30AM and left the park at 5PM. I have a bit of a sunburn, Megan can barely keep her eyes open, and Ayumi’s family received a brief education on the beauty of wheat beer, skype, and pirated Nintendo DS games.
Thats really all I have to offer anyone.
I’m too tired to go into any details about the small things that made this weekend as great as it was, but it was really great.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:08 pm by rl