Tamie got back from India on Saturday. After cleaning our apartment, I headed down to the airport to pick her up. As I waited, she walked right past me not even noticing me after I whistled at her. I understand it’s hard to pick me out of a crowd of short Japanese people so I wasn’t too upset.
We headed back to Tamie’s folks’ house where Layla was waiting. She was pretty excited to see her Mom – she ran outside to greet Tamie as we drove up the driveway. After seeing that reaction, I’m thinking of taking a business trip of my own for a week.
Sunday was our planned day to head to Kamakura to do the annual sakura (cherry blossom) thing. The weather was not very co-operative, although I guess I should be grateful it didn’t rain much. It seemed we were a couple days late as the a lot of the trees had already shed most of their blossoms, but it was still a nice trip. We visited a couple different temples, explored some back roads, and had a nice meal before coming home.
One stop we did make was at Tamie’s chopstick shop — I call it that because it’s where Tamie brought me to buy chopsticks when I first came here, and it’s where we go every time we need new chopsticks. This time, it was Layla we were getting chopsticks for! She picked out a small pair of chopsticks and we all ended up getting some. Even at the tender age of 2 (almost 3), Layla’s skill with chopsticks has already surpassed mine. Must be genetic.
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