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Today, K and I finally met up with E. I say finally because we last saw her during Christmas break, and we had made plans at the time to go to Disney Sea at some point in January or February, but they kept falling through, and we had to scrap the amusement park idea because E is now hugely pregnant. Due in a week or so, in fact. We had her give us the name of her hospital and everything, just in case.
So instead of a day of Disney, we went down to Kawasaki (where E lives) and had an insanely huge lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. May I just say that their Thai chicken pizza is scrumptious? It was also the first time I'd even seen bean sprouts on a pizza, which is something of a novelty even in Japan, where they'll put anything on a pizza. We split a salad and two pizzas between us, and were pretty full, but ended up ordering a caramel sundae to share. It was for the baby! :D And a good thing it was we'd ordered only one dessert for the three of us, because it was enormous, nearly as big as my head. Nearly as big as E's belly!
All that to explain why I'm still not hungry and will not be having supper tonight. This seems to be becoming a trend: last Sunday, after gorging myself at the Thai buffet (Eda, I don't know whether to thank you or curse you for showing me that place... @_@), I didn't have any supper either!
K and I had another reason to go to Kawasaki, and that was to pick out frames for sunglasses. The parents of one of our students are ophthalmologists and have their own clinic, and do business with a frame/lens shop out on the Den-en-toshi line. They give us a major discount on everything, for which we are incredibly thankful. Last year, I got new glasses for only 50% of the price of the frames (they didn't charge me for the eye exam or the lenses!). This time, I paid Y16,386 for sunglasses (50% of the price of the frames, plus a fraction of the price of the lenses).
Actual retail value... *cue The Price Is Right music*
Y76,350
O______O;;;;;
So I said I wouldn't have supper tonight, but that doesn't preclude having snacks. Which is why I'm munching on a jasmine tea-flavoured KitKat bar while sipping actual jasmine tea. Appropriate, no?
So instead of a day of Disney, we went down to Kawasaki (where E lives) and had an insanely huge lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. May I just say that their Thai chicken pizza is scrumptious? It was also the first time I'd even seen bean sprouts on a pizza, which is something of a novelty even in Japan, where they'll put anything on a pizza. We split a salad and two pizzas between us, and were pretty full, but ended up ordering a caramel sundae to share. It was for the baby! :D And a good thing it was we'd ordered only one dessert for the three of us, because it was enormous, nearly as big as my head. Nearly as big as E's belly!
All that to explain why I'm still not hungry and will not be having supper tonight. This seems to be becoming a trend: last Sunday, after gorging myself at the Thai buffet (Eda, I don't know whether to thank you or curse you for showing me that place... @_@), I didn't have any supper either!
K and I had another reason to go to Kawasaki, and that was to pick out frames for sunglasses. The parents of one of our students are ophthalmologists and have their own clinic, and do business with a frame/lens shop out on the Den-en-toshi line. They give us a major discount on everything, for which we are incredibly thankful. Last year, I got new glasses for only 50% of the price of the frames (they didn't charge me for the eye exam or the lenses!). This time, I paid Y16,386 for sunglasses (50% of the price of the frames, plus a fraction of the price of the lenses).
Actual retail value... *cue The Price Is Right music*
Y76,350
O______O;;;;;
So I said I wouldn't have supper tonight, but that doesn't preclude having snacks. Which is why I'm munching on a jasmine tea-flavoured KitKat bar while sipping actual jasmine tea. Appropriate, no?
