I was so excited about today, it was going to be a quiet day catching up with Mrs Yoshida and after hearing what our day was like yesterday, she was more than happy for us to buy some prepackaged, though very tasty, food from the local Tokyu Department store and come back for a quiet catch up and lunch.
She looked even younger than she did when we lived here and told me that when she found out her daughter Naoko was pregnant, she decided to get fit quick to be able to look after the baby when necessary, so started walking round the local parks every morning, and in the 9 months had lost over 6 kilos and looks great! We reminisced about the times we went swimming at the local pool and the many gym classes, called ‘aerobic dancing’, we had taken together back then. Of course we also talked about Zoe’s birth and how time flies, and how much Zoe and Grant have grown. With her husband now retired, she tries to get out as much as possible, in order to avoid having to provide special lunches for him ;-).
We left the kids at home resting, while we went for a bit of a wander around Kichijoji to get some souveneir shopping done and then visit the new shopping complex that opened on Friday. I’d heard that the new bookstore there had Japanese Manga (comics) in English and it was something that the kids were desperate to buy while here in Japan. We got back home and quickly arranged to have a lunch or dinner next week with her and her husband.
Later in the afternoon, we walked to Mari’s to check up on Mako-chan, and whiled away the time roughhousing with Mako-chan.
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