Today is the last day of my New Years vacation. Like all long vacations, it seemed like a really long time off before it started, and now I can hardly believe it's over! My condolence is that tomorrow is Friday, and Monday is another national holiday, meaning that I have a three-day weekend coming up. Yeah!!! Shinachan is taking tomorrow off, so her vacation continues... I, on the other hand, will be attending a 2007 Kick-off Meeting for J&J...Yuck!
Anyway, today was spent relaxing and tending to business in the neighborhood (banks and many businesses started today).
For those of you who have visited our home in Ningyocho, you can see a few new additions to the neighborhood. This is a really growing area with lots of new condominiums and apartments. For that reason there have been a lot of new restaurants coming in recently. Here is a picture of one brand new apartment building (under construction when we moved in last year. You can see the tall buildings of famous electronics district Akihabara in the distance--about a 3 minute train ride away on the Hibiya line) and a new Italian restaurant that opened up at the bottom of our building.
Finally, tonight we're trying the brand new rice cooker we purchased this past week. For some reason, although we eat a lot of rice (this is Japan, after all), we havent had a rice cooker (almost everyone in Japan does). This is a pretty cool one and can aparently even bake bread! 
1 comment:
That is a cool rice cooker! Will that keep the rice and fresh all day?
I do remember the buildings across the street that were being built during mom and my visit to Ningyocho. We especially were fond of the "toothless" lad that directed pedestrian traffic around the construction site. She was a very pleasant and professional worker.
Vacations are also long in coming and short in enjoying them. Being a teacher, it was always like starting a new job once the vacation was over. Anyway, keep of the informative blog!!
Mom and Dad
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