Japan 2013 (Day 8 - 19th July)

Hello again everyone.
I am not in my inlaw's house at the moment where I left my computer so I hope this blogspot timer thing is working and you can read this soon.

The 8th day of my trip was another quiet day but we did leave the house at least. When I got to the living room for breakfast someone else was already sitting there, Mr.Mi the cat. He is soooo big! He is adorable and keeps running away from Mari, the poor thing.

I had something I always liked for breakfast, my mother in law's version of mini hot dogs? Anyway they are small brioche bread buns with lettuce, cucumber, a bit of that crunchy yummy sausage and ketchup. I also had tea. It's a sort of tea they always have in the fridge and kind of prepare at home. It tastes like... really weak coffee water. It's odd but i like it. 

And my usual cup of american style coffee of course. With a bit of milk and sugar.

I spent the whole morning doing god knows what while my husband worked, again. 

And without noticing because time does fly, it was lunch time already.

My husband needed a haircut and instead of getting one in Portugal we decided it made more sense to do it in Japan because of his hair type. I thought he had some plans for a special cut or something but in the end he just went with a place where they cut hair (men and women) for 1000yen which is very cheap.  

This is what the outside of the hair salon looked like, inside it has small compartments/boxes where each customer would sit in. It was rather empty but the atmorphere was nice and everyone kept asking things about Mari which is cute.

After the haircut it was back to the car. I really like this photo of Mari, she looks adorable in her little hat but most of all i really love her pose. Why is she sitting like that? No idea. 

After that we had the most important appointment of the day, the dentist. My husband was chewing gum the other day and something fell off one of his tooth. I do not know what the name is in english but in Portuguese is "chumbo do dente". 

                            

Direct translation would be tooth lead but i'm not sure that makes any sense.

He wasn't really in pain, he's just being goofy.

This is actually a space for kids inside the small, elegant and cozy clinic. I took a photo of Mari playing with books but cannot find it so i'm making my husband look silly instead. ha!

Of course, one has to take one's shoes off to enter the clinic so they have community slippers you are supposed to change into when you go there and wait for your turn. Not sure how much more hygenic that is but...

Anyway he was afraid it would be ridiculously expensive since, as you must know, Japan's health care system is a lot like the American one meaning everyone should have an health insurance if they want to be able to afford any medical care. But actually it was only around 30 euros! We were surprised. He didn't completely solve the problem but he did manage to do the minimum to hang on confortably until we get back. 

We then got back home and had dinner and also gave Mari something to eat.

Dinner was super tasty! My favorite salad, my mother in law's potato salad, hambago, mini regular salad, a cup of corn soup and beer. YUM

A very simple day but I hope you still enjoyed it.

Again, here's another lolita purchase from the Shinsaibashi shopping day:

Alice and the Pirates black jsk 

(does anyone know the name?)

Love always,

Jo