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Shopping in Ginza
I have started to exercise at home rather than at the gym. It works quite well with only a 15 kg weight. Today I put it on my back and climbed the stairs down-and-up 10 rounds (if you didn’t know our building is 12 stories). It took about 40 minutes so it a nice exercise that gets your blood pumping and keeps your legs strong 🙂
After a shower and some rest Chie and I visited our friend at the Toranomon hospital again. Just a few more days now before his surgery.
The we went on to Ginza for some shopping. I had a visit to the Apple store and bought a new activity monitor. My Nike+ Fuelband got broke a while back so it was an opportunity to try something new. Misfits’ activity monitor Shine. I also bought Phillips Hue lights.
The shopping made us hungry so we walked to Sicilia just off the beaten track in Ginza. It’s a small Italian restaurant (one of the first in Tokyo).
Once back home I hurried to install and try the Phillips Hue light. It was fun though most likely we will go with a warm, relaxing light. An interesting thing is that you could change it to some of the preset lights optimised for e.g. reading or concentration. Suitable for our “library” 🙂
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Once we got through security we got on a shuttle bus and went to our hotel. The room was not available yet so we just changed clothes and went shopping.
It took us most of the day to visit all the stores we wanted and then some.
We had dinner at the Takonoki, a Japanese restaurant with nice food and very friendly owner.
After dinner we bought some water and went back to the hotel. I was so tired I fell to sleep at once.
Saturday is College Football
Saturday is college football. The first few years we went to San Francisco to watch football we always went to either Stanford or Berkley to watch college football live. One year we were lucky to watch last years Super Bowl MVP, QB Aaron Rogers, in action at Berkley. But the last few years it has been to hard work to fit everything into a weekend. So Saturdays now are for finalizing grocery shopping for the tailgate party, watch a football game at Ricky’s, then go back to the hotel to prepare for the tailgate party.
Returning home from Ricky’s to prepare for the tailgate party we shortly stopped to buy some groceries we forgot during the morning. I took the opportunity to make rabbit ears on a Halloween skeleton 🙂
I must say it was a bit scary. Just a minute before the skeleton had mysteriously moved without anyone being close to it. I was the only one daring to take a photo with it 😉
Shopping in the Bay Area
Arrived in San Francisco in the morning, a few hours before we left Tokyo… We flew with Delta, the time machine 😉
After getting off the airplane, getting our bags and checking out our rental car we headed to the hotel. Early checkin. Then an hour of sleep before we went grocery shopping. We had time to do some other shopping as well before we had to return to the hotel and prepare dinner. Pasta, parma ham and parmesan cheese salad, carrot salad, and cream sauce chicken. Yummy!