Japan Day 5 - Weetabix and Cuddling Sheep
So, what have I got in store for you today, you lovely people? Three bags of snotty tissues and an important revelation - that's what. We'll start off with the discovery that will shock the world: In Japan, they play music (muzak) with their weather forecasts. I think they should do that in the UK - I love the thought of relaxing to music whilst the female presenters tell us all about their warm fronts.
Day 5 started off with me laying in bed until quite late in the morning. I had no energy whatsoever, but didn't feel particularly sleepy. So, I just lay there. It's amazing how your mind wanders on to bizarre thoughts when you do that. For example, I found myself wondering what famous world structures I could replicate using Mark's over-large collection of Weetabix (see photograph 1). Shortly after that, I came up with a great new idea to help people get up in the morning. It simply involves wiring your alarm clock snooze button to the mains. Think russian roulette. The alarm clock goes off in the morning and you want to snooze… however, there's a 50/50 chance resting on it. Either the snooze button will work, and you can go back to sleep, or you'll get a blast of several thousand volts and be woken up nicely to get on with your day (or be dead; but without risk there's no adventure!). Having come up with my brilliant ideas, I finally prised myself out of bed and we ate lunch. Photograph 2 shows Sayaka cooking and photographs 3 shows her creation - delicious vegetable soup. Following that, we ate the raspberry cheesecake that I had been given by Sayaka and Mark at their party (photos 4 and 5). Though it was very cold here today (4 days ago it was 22 degrees and we were wearing t-shirts), the sun was out and there was a clear view out into the distance. So, I took a couple of photographs of the mountains. Check out photographs 6 and 7. If you look very closely, you will see snow on the mountains. If you look really, really closely you will see a snow leopard sitting on the mountain, picking his nose and drinking Sake… With it being so cold outside, and my lack of energy, I spent the entire day inside. I've watched seven episodes of Heroes, one of FlashForward and none of Last Of The Summer Wine. I'm hoping that I will be feeling well enough to get out of the house tomorrow, before I get square eyes. Ok - on to the final set of photographs. Photograph 8 shows some cuddling sheep (attached to a heart balloon) - a present given to Mark and Sayaka. Photograph 9 shows my place card from their dinner party, with my name in Japanese. Photograph 10 is of a flower arrangement made entirely of cardboard. Notice, if you will, the spinning flower on the right. Genius! Right, I'm off for a snooze… how shocking!