Out and About

The other day Hannah and I went to the city.  Just looking around, nice lunch!
Simple day out for us!  Turned into a real adventure!  I am hopeless at
navigating train stations and trains!  And it's not just because my Japanese is
bad the same happens in the UK. I just don't get trains!  We arrived at the station, got
our tickets and went to the platform. Hannah is looking at the board and says that
she thinks we can't get on the train that is coming because it is reserved seats only.
When the train arrives it turns out to be the expensive express train.  We then decided to go back to
the office and ask for help.  We were waiting at the wrong platform.  We finally got to
the city, but then had to get the subway to the place Hannah wanted to go!
Again not good with subways! In London last year I got lost two or three times
on the Underground!  I've only used this subway twice before, but not too bad.
The store Hannah wanted to visit was the Takarazuka store. Takarazuka is an all
female musical theatre company, this is a link to Wikipedia about them  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takarazuka_Revue

She shopped for a while, spent a fortune but she was happy!  We then went and had lunch.
Rather nice hamburger steak!
Getting back also turned into an adventure!  We got off at the wrong station!  Just one
station before we should get off!  Poor David had to drive to pick us up, not very far

but the station was in the middle of a housing development with a lot of narrow and
one way roads.  I don't like trains!!!!

poster for a musical

It's hot waiting for trains

Nice lunch

Yesterday was also out and about. City Hall, Tax Office, shopping and Hannah's school.
Talk about crazy morning, I was hoping everything could be done in about one hour, reality
took 3 hours.  Never mind some things that I had been putting off are finished which is good!

The kittens are growing.  We got them a litter box last week and so far only one accident, not
bad.  This is what I find in the morning!

Sleeping in the corridor!