October 18th 2013 Buildings, Typhoon, and Food!

October 18th 2013
Howdy folks! Well it's been an interesting week. Monday was a national holiday... Sports Day! I find that humourous but there were people in parks and folks wearing sports uniforms doing sporty stuff! I took a walk in a park. Lol.
Turns out we had a typhoon on Tues/Wed. Gary and I survived fine (actually sept through it), but areas of Tokyo and a nearby island were hit pretty hard. Now we will have to see if Typhoon Francisco stays on course and hits us next week. They don't call it typhoon season for nothing!   It was funny because if it wasn't for Gary's Japanese teacher canceling class because "a big typhoon was coming" we might not have even known until the big outdoor voice speaker began announcing the impending doom!

                                                                     

Anyway, we have been keeping busy taking care of other stuff this week. Yesterday we went and looked at another building.     (It's the one with the Coca-Cola sign, 2nd floor)              
                                                                            

This was in the Nishi Shinjuku area the part of Tokyo with the most skyscrapers and businesses. It was very hopping with a lot of people! Of course all of Tokyo is always very hopping...but still this was even more so!  This was the best building yet as far as neighborhood and church structure that we've seen! It would be really cool if we could rent this one but Japan being Japan we still have more red tape steps to proceed and be approved before we will know! After seeing the building we wandered around the neighborhood and also got some dinner at Baguette a nice place with a bread buffet.

On to food! 


Typhoon day I made Chanko Nabe..food of the sumo wrestlers! I figured it would keep any large wind gusts from blowing us away! It has chicken pieces and also chicken meatballs, a couple types of mushrooms, carrots, tofu, leeks and Chinese cabbage all simmering in a tasty broth! We ate the whole thing!
                  

  
This is a crustless quiche I made. I used the oven setting on my microwave. It had mushroom, ham onion and cheese!

 

 Finally, this is pork cutlets with grated daikon radish and a Japanese sauce on top, these were the best and I'll definitely make them again! I got this recipe from cookpad online!

 

Speaking of food, my dinner for tonight is ready so it's time for me to go! Hope you all had a great week!