Visiting Friends (2004-11-05)
The Saturday before last we went to Ikebukuro (
) to see a
friend of
KL's from highschool whom he has not seen in 19 years. She was
traveling with her husband in Kyoto, Hiroshima, Sendai, and Tokyo. Her husband, Dr
DM, is an avid fan of the Formula One race and they came all the way
from their home in San Francisco to attend the event. While they were
here, they endured two powerful typhoons but luckily the race was not
canceled altogether and they were able to do some sightseeing too.The hotel they were staying happened to be the very one we stayed at when we first arrived
in Japan in 1999. Going back to its lobby brought back a flood of
memories, including how I tripped in the revolving front door of that
hotel and scared the heck out of KL. Can't believe it's over five
years now since that happened.
Dr DM and his wife, Dr AM are very smart people, and so young!
The husband is a system control engineer and his wife, who has TWO
doctorate
degrees, does research in corrective eye surgery. Therefore with
KL in our group, I was
surrounded by not one, not two, but three intelligent doctors in our
little afternoon tea gathering. There was enough power surge
around me from highly-developed brain cells to singe our iced tea
hot! As your common everyday layperson/housewife in our group, I
think I kept less intelligent remarks to a minimum and we had a good time
chatting the afternoon away. Some of the more intelligent topics
we talked about included the Japanese toilet seats our friends bought which they
planned to carry on the plane themselves, unusual omiyage for unusual
people.
Not only did our friends pay for the afternoon tea, they also brought us a
gift from Kyoto. Nice friends like them should visit
more often!
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