At 10:20 am we were seated at the Toho cinema in Roppongi Hills. Excited. Waiting for the movie Shine a Light to start. It is a movie about the Rolling Stones directed by Martin Scorsese. For Rolling Stones fans this is a must see. Although they are getting quite old they still rock. And it is difficult to sit still when they seem to have so much fun playing at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
Chie and I met Non-san and Ryo-san outside the Picadilly movie theater at Seibu department store in Ginza at 3:45 pm today. They are Club Leo and I am kind of their member of honor or maybe a mascot. The club started a long time ago as a fan club to Leonardo DiCaprio. Though they are still fans of Leo it has grown into something more than just a Leo fan club. Friendship and monthly meeting with movie and dinner.
Today we saw Body of Lies, Leo’s latest movies about CIA agent and terrorism. It was a really good movie that I think had an undertone of chritisims of how USA is treating the so called terrorists.
After the movie we continued to Pescaderia in Ginza where we had a great dinner. And to complete a great evening we had a great desert. Or rather I had three great deserts. Apple pie with vanilla ice cream. And two cinamon ice creams. The cinamon ice cream was a special request from me a month ago, when Club Leo went to Pescaderia after having dinner together at another place. We were quite surprised that the chef had remembered our request.
“Dagen före doppardagen” – they day before the dipping day, if translated straight to English from Swedish. The meaning is that it is the day before the Christmas evening. Old tradition in Sweden is to use buljong from cooking the ham to dip perhaps dry bred in and eat, hence Christmas eve became the long awaited “dipping day” when old dry bread became a little bit easier to eat.
Fortunately we do not need to rely on buljong from cooking the ham to enjoy our bread or food today. We went to Yasaka instead. With Martin and his friend Anders. Martin works at Sony Ericsson and Anders was visiting from Sweden over Christmas and New Year.
We had a good time eating and talking. I think that Martin and Anders enjoyed the food and atmosphere at Yasaka almost as much as we do.
Today I got home from quite early so that Chie and I could have a quick dinner at a ramen restaurant before we took the car to Tokorozawa. Arriving in Tokorozawa Coco was waiting for us. So happy to see us again. The rest of the weekend we played with Coco and took him for walks.
After the work today I went to Yasaka to have dinner with Chie and two of her friends from Konami Sports (Shibayama-san and Furuya-san). After a while Mina-sensei joined us as well. We ate and talked for a few hours and had a great time. Until it was time to go back home. Tomorrow was another day.
   