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Flee Market for Kobuchihama

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After getting back home from my Beijing trip I had no time to relax. Just unpacked my bags and got ready to prepare for this weekend’s flee market for Kobuchihama. Chie picked me up with the car on her way to Ishihara-san after her work. At Ishihara-san we filled the car with things to sell at the flee market, things donated by individuals as well as companies, and drove it to the same place we always use for the flee market.

We only had two cars and we had to 2.5 roundtrips to get all the things to the flee market. Then we all helped out in unpacking it. Chie and I had learned out lesson the last time we helped out… Meaning doing nothing that had to do with organizing the layout or looks of things – the designer people took care of that. Instead we hang clothes on hangers and folded t-shirts for the hyakuen (100 JPY) corner.



At 10 pm the only thing that was left to do was the details, which Chie and I could not help out with… We are too much of engineers and like to categorize and group things in a much different way than designers and boutique owners want to 🙂 So we said our goodbyes and went for dinner.

I only had lunch on the flight so I was starving. We went to Yasaka and it was as always yummy, fun, and funny 😀

Back in Tokyo

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Left Taipei in the morning to arrive back in Tokyo around 3 pm. First thing to do was to meet Chie at the Naka-Meguro station and then go straight to the Meguro City Ward to update my Alien Registration card. This was the last of activities I needed in order to renew my work visa for another 3 years 😀

Afterwards Chie and I went to Yasaka for dinner. It was the only place that was open for dinner at 5 pm, and we were both starving. At Yasaka we had a great time as always.

Yasaka with Hirata-san

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Chie and I had planned to have a quiet dinner at home, but Hirata-san called her and asked us to come to Yasaka. Not only because we are such a lovely company but also because his wife was out with some friends, and this because were they live they had a blackout this evening.

Yasaka had been quite empty the whole week, and the owner had got a lot of cancellations. But tonight it was full. And it looked like business as usual.



Probably the only exception from a normal dinner at Yasaka was that we were watching TV news on Chie’s cell phone.

Yasaka

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Around 3:30 pm we got a message from HR to leave office early if possible and not to come back until further notice. Most work has been handed over to the other sites and many people have not been able to come to the office due to the irregular train traffic.

I always listen to the company directives… Especially when they tell me to leave early and not to come back 😉 So I did.

Once at home Chie and I went to Yasaka. Yummy!

Ishiki Beach

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Chie and I went to pay a visit at the emperor’s summer house, but he was not home 😉 So we stayed outside at the beach instead. There we met a Japanese couple that we see at Yasaka some times (he is working there).

We said hello and sat under a parasol not far away from them. Chie and I had a nice time reading and relaxing. I spent quite some time sleeping too.

When it was time to leave we tried to get a shower, but it was 1000 Yen for each person. A bit steep we thought, and went home salty and sandy instead.

We mingled quite well with the crowd on the bus and trains since many were on their way home from the beaches around Kamakura area. One family seemed to have just gotten out of the water as their clothes were still dripping water and they still wore their floating gears.

Once home we just got into the shower and then we went to Yasaka for dinner. And there they were a gain. The couple from the beach 🙂