Great Food!

After teaching some adult ladies at Marugame City Hall Thursday afternoon, they invited me to lunch. Went to a new  restaurant below is sweet potato tempura and some kind of seafood tempura. Mmmmm.

Must...learn....to make....

I went shopping at an awesome super center today. Clothes, shoes, electronics, baby stuff, food, pharmacy...it was great. Interesting highlight for today: The stores here use what we would call "gift cards" to pay. You give them 10,000 yen and they give you a card worth 10,000 yen. Each time you use it it auto-deducts the amount due from it and stamps it with the remaining amount available. You must pay for shoes in the shoe dept, hydrogen peroxide (below) in the pharmacy, food in the food department, etc. Good thing I ran into one of my students...otherwise I would be a little confused and embarrassed at the checkouts. Above is a small assortment of the fish department.

Fish, anyone? Pick a fish...any fish!

Live eel in the top right.

My new indoor shoes (yellow-about 400 yen) and some really cute new slip-ons which were only 1,000 yen ($10)-they are brown/white plaid with white daisies...yes, Lorinda, I will pass them down to you when I'm done.

Super good candy bar for only 88 yen (88c)

In loving memory of my dearest Sarah. Of whom I thought when I saw this beautiful Japanese mango in the store. After which I bought it and ate it on her behalf.

Post mango dental floss.

The hydrogen peroxide I mentioned above. The largest bottle is the size of a small one in the U.S. and it cost 460 yen ($4.60). Oh, and next to that is the stuff AAA gave me when I got my international drivers permit which explains road signs in Japan...which I did not read. Ha...oops.