We decided to sleep in today, since we hadn't been able to do that for a long time. When we woke up, we saw that the predicted rain was indeed very heavy, continous and coming straight down. But early in the afternoon we went out anyway. Since the rain was still falling, we used our umbrellas, but the wind was coming from so many different directions, quickly after one another and each time with a lot of force, we had a hard time to hold on to the umbrella. Of ...

You must know the drill by now. Dennis is at work and learning another new Japanese word from his Japanese colleagues. Michelle explores the area in search for this special piece of furniture. The road near the house (Meguro Dori) looked like the place to begin the hunt and to browse the many shops, since that road is well known for its furniture shops. There were indeed a lot of totally different furniture shops, new and second hand. Every shop had some other ...

Michelle was taking a day off, since her back and shoulders were killing her. That bed is really too hard. Only a few more days until the new one arrives! Luckily there were enough tv-series to watch, even in English. Siri on the new iPhone 4S was nice to play with too, she can give strange answers if you ask her funny things! (What is the meaning of life? Which smartphone is the best? Will you marry me? Beam me up.) However we noticed that FaceTime and iMessag...

Today Michelle tested the difficulty of the Japanese train and subway system. She went to the nearest Muji store near the Gaienmae station to get some missing kitchen utilities. After that she went back and waited for Dennis at Starbucks while enjoying a newly discovered beverage called Caramel Delight. Meanwhile, Dennis had to go to a medical center for his health check up. Funny to see how that is done in Japan. Many companies require an annual checkup from ...

For Michelle this day was the perfect day to explore the neighborhood. The day looked promising after the heavy rain from yesterday. She already saw on the map that there was a nearby park. So after some cleaning in the house she went for a stroll. The park was quite nice and was filled with all sorts of different plants. Like expected there were even some trees with name-tags (in Japanese of course) so people can see what species it was. The park was filled wi...