April 16th

The earthquake alarm sounded twice this morning, but we didn't feel anything...yay!
Heard from the realtor today, looks like we didn't pass the paperwork test for the house we wanted but we did pass the test for the smaller apartment. If all works out we should be able to move in early May! The house would have been nice for the oven and space but the neighborhood for the apartment is much nicer and the apartment is quite nice too. Keep praying everything goes through smoothly!
Time for the happy chicken dance! 

So yesterday was Atsuko's day off so we decided to go out! We went to Kichijoji again to check out the area and get some dinner. She had wanted to take us to a grilled Unagi (eel) restaurant but turns out we were in the wrong neighborhood so we went looking for something else. We almost made it into a yakiniku place but there was no seating :-(  I've really been wanting to go to a grill meat at your table place so was a little disappointed but someday we'll get there! So we kept looking! The weather outside was quite pleasant and we enjoyed seeing all the people that were out enjoying the evening. Finally we decided on an interesting restaurant with a varied menu. Atsuko had a sashimi, rice, miso soup and cold soba meal. Gary had grilled fish, clam rice, miso soup and seaweed salad.

I had a steaming bubbly hot breaded chicken hotpot in a delicious broth.! It had chicken, eggplant, sweet potato, green leafy thing, scallion and carrot. It also had a nice serving of grated daikon radish on top which gave it a fresh oomph! It was served with rice and pickled goodies, and miso soup.  Wonderful!

 

Afterwards we had a desert, I chose a Raspberry, banana, parfait thingy. It had chocolate pudding, and whipped cream and a tasty mochi custard or something. The only thing I didn't care for was the red beans on the bottom...I know they're sweet and considered a desert but I'm not a fan of beans in my parfait. Otherwise it was quite good!