Awake: 6:04am Some distant clouds Overnight @ Nagoya, Japan
Our breakfast starts @ 6:32am …..Already there were some 20 people in
line… with some seated. We suspect the café opened a little early. We sit
& eat for 1.5 hrs & eventually our gang shows up & eats breakfast also.
@ 8:45am to 9:45am we assemble in the lobby for picture taking. Don &
Josie + Corinne are soon on their way to the new Chubu Int’l airport via
the jumbo van taxi service. They are leaving a few days earlier because of
commitments back in Pittsburgh, PA. We say our goodbyes & bon voyage
etc…then try to figure out what are we going to do today.
Kevin is almost back to normal after he made numerous bathroom calls
yesterday afternoon, evening, & night from drinking so much water. It’s
good to have him back.
Kathy & Katrina went shopping for some healthy snacks so I join our
dwindling gang for some snacks of cheese, melon from the Togari’s & man’s
Pockey sticks, coated with dark chocolate.
Soon afterward, Nick & Eriko have a plan to meet in the hotel lobby @
5:00pm for dinner near the hotel.
A 5 min walk to the “Shirokia” Karaoke room & meals restaurant. Matthew,
who has been a fantastic good guy all of these days…going with the flow,
flexible, tolerant, tenacious, etc….suddenly slammed on the brakes when we
were asked to go up 3 flights of stairs to our karaoke room. Kathy tried
carrying him up the stairs but after one flight of loud screaming,
kicking, twisting of the body etc. she gave him back to Melissa. Melissa
reported that he wanted to climb the stairs himself, but once she calmly &
patiently talked with Matthew about how many stairs there were to climb
and let him climb a few, he quieted down…then she brought him upstairs
where he joined our smaller numbered gang. Ah, developing independence!
We didn’t come to this place to do karaoke….just to eat & eat we did. Our
meals were an accumulation of small dishes selected from a large picture
menu with very small print. Eriko, Nick & Zack did most of the selecting
with approval from the rest of us. Eriko would use the telephone in the
room to summon the waitress, who would come to our room and take our order
from Eriko (only Japanese spoken here). A short time later she would open
the door to our room and deliver our food. This repeated several times.
Matthew kept himself busy pushing buttons on the karaoke equipment &
making lights flash now & then until he finally turned on the unit & Eriko
quickly jumped to the rescue to shut the unit off. When Matthew did begin
to eat, the good food kept him engrossed near the table area where Kevin &
Melissa were sitting. This style of eating again reminded me of the fondue
way of eating in that we had plenty of time between servings to just sit &
talk. It was a fun evening and a different & tasty style of dining.
Walking back to our Cypress Garden Hotel, the temp & humidity were the
most pleasant since our arrival 8 days ago. That typhoon passing nearby
gets all the credit.
Lights out: 10:43pm
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