Chie and I met Club Leo in Roppongi Hills at 1:20 pm. Today we watched the Benjamin Button movie at the Toho Cinema theater. It was an odd movie but quite good. It made you think about life and death.

Afterwards we took the subway to Ebisu where we changed to the JR Yamate-sen to Shinagawa. At Shinagawa we changed again to Keikyu-sen. We got off at the Omorikaigen. And was a bit lost. We found a map that not only had “You are here” marked in the wrong place but it was turned around so it was really difficult to find where we should go.

Eventually we found what direction to go in. But then we had to ask a few people to find our way to Thaini Kitchen. A small Thai restaurant with great Thai food. Spicy. Fresh.

Either it was the warm weather during the day or it was some spices in the food, but Ryo got some of allergic reaction and her nose started to run. Not around like a dog would run but more like a waterfall would run.

Actually, in Japanese a runny nose is called はなみず (hana-mizu) which basically means nose water. Inspired by Ryo’s nose water we invented a new Japanese word はなたき (hana-taki) which means nose waterfall. I think everyone had a fun time making jokes about her nose the whole evening. Except maybe Ryo. Or at least I can understand she had a tough time with her nose… But she could keep from laughing at our nose jokes.

Before leaving I gave Ryo and Non chocolate cookies as a White Day gift.

In Japan Valentine’s Day (14th of February) is the day when girls give boys chocolate or some other gift, which is a little bit different from the rest of the world. But on White Day (14th of March) it is the boys turn to give the girls chocolate or some other gift. Quite fair I think… Though I like the Japanese Valentine’s Day better 😉