Japan 2013 (Days 15/16 - 26/27th of July)

Hello again,

So we are finally arriving to the part of the trip where the times I spend stuck at home doing nothing are more common than those that I actually do something that I am doing something that others might consider to be fun.

Again, my husband has a lot of work to do until he gets back to work and its my job to support him by taking care of Mari and not demanding to go here and there and do this and that.

I honestly have no memory of what I did these two days. I spend them at home, watched an occasional weird japanese tv show, usually containing food... or travels to another cities... or better yet, a csi sort of series with muder and criminal investigations. I am really ashamed of our national channels everytime i come here. Every single tv show as ridiculous as it is has a very strong pedagogical component as to ours.. lets just say mostly do not. The ones that have content are just made in a very traditional way which is fine for me but might not be fine for some of the population making them want to watch something without substance but that is approachable. Of course this is just my opinion and of course its not something that applies to everything, there are exceptions.

26th of August

Apparently my breakfast on the 26th was a cup of corn soup, a salad, a toast with marguerine and cafe au lait.

I had fried udon for lunch (yummy)

And for dinner we had ebi fry with a pasta salad... beer and kinpira gobo.

27th of August

I woke up a bit late that day. To be honest I haven't been feeling super these days, I have some pain in my abdominal area which I have no idea where it cames from. It started after I gave birth to Mari and after reading a bit about the same complaints on a maternity forum I learned that its not that uncommon for people to suffer from different things after giving birth via c-section. It makes me mad because i never wanted a c-section at all but was forced to follow that path to (according to the doctor) insure that nothing went wrong.
I don't regret it but the scar tissue is still itchy and swolen and i could do without the occasional pain.
So I basically woke up in time for lunch which always tastes great on hot days such as these. <3

Mari also started doing something new around that day which is to put her feet in her mouth. I haven't seen her do that lately so she might have stopped in the meanwhile.

There's always snacks and sweets... chocolate/cake whatever in this house. I am sure that if i wasn't running from time to time i'd have increased my weight from all the calories. hehe but it all is so yummy and there's nothing much else i have to do here other than eating so i'm taking most of the pleasure of this trip from food. 

My usual coffee cup with milk and sugar and a pound cake, half regular sponge cake, half matcha sponge cake. I love everything matcha if you did not know already. 

After that my husband and my mother in law came in the living room carrying one or two photo albums. In these there were photos of my husband when he was a kid. We found somethings a bit similar between him and Mari and i love seeing old photos!

My husband when he was a little baby.

Mari was having fun, she is starting to like books a lot, she finds the pictures interesting. You can see a shot of my husband when he was an older kid too, he looks exactly the same now.

And dinner was something I love, its probably my favorite, another barbecue. It's just the closest to what we eat in Portugal i guess because barbecue is a bit of the same everywhere and my mother in law is always a sweetheart and gets all sorts of tasty ingredients. I always eat too much and she says "it's ok because the food is being grilled without any oil so it's "healthy". haha yes, healthy. :P

Kimchi, Egg plant (I love egg plant), japanese ridiculously expensive and tasty meat, pepper, cabbage, konnyaku, mushrooms...

That was what i did these two days. Not very exciting right? Well it gets a lot less interesting afterwards... i wonder if i should still post anyway, oh well.

Love,

Jo