Say hello to my new friends and my favorite weekend. I really didn't spend all weekend watching house. In fact, I did a very enviable thing. I saw the new Hayao Miyazaki film which just came out in theaters in Japan. It is Gake no ue no Ponyo. I highly recommend it. Ha ha I saw it first!
I also got to hang out with the girls who are in Tamana-gun (machi = town, shi = city; gun = county). We went to the movie and shopping. I got a lot of new stuff for my apartment. Plants, mop, broom, new rugs for the bathroom and toilet. And hangers. Lots and lots of hangers.
But by far the best thing was that I found Mountain Dew that tastes like Mountain Dew. In 2002 in Osaka, Mountain Dew tasted like half Dew, half sprite. Now there is a slight difference, but it's close enough for me! Horray. And I bought two kinds of Pringles that are not in the US. The one in the picture is Extreme Cheese. Sorry Deborah.
And last night I saw the biggest spider I have ever seen. Body and legs were larger than my hand. The body was around the size of a tennis ball, maybe a bit smaller. I had nightmares about being surrounded by large ugly spiders. I'm surprised I didn't die of fright.
Sweat dreams!
