this and that

Mother Nature threw us straight into winter over the weekend.

The temperature was in the 50s!

Super cheap oden set at the market...1/2 off!

I pre-cooked some daikon and carrots then added all these different fishcakes.

And also added some spinach towards the end.

We ended up eating some the next day for lunch.

Mizore nabe...grated daikon, chicken, spinach and carrots.

Eaten with ponzu.

Rain and cold temps one day brings more snow on Mount Fuji.

Our ward started handing out vaccine passports in July so the other week we applied for our vaccine passports (before “the rush”)...surprisingly it only took one week to receive it.

So analog though...copy of the vaccination record, copy of your passport, copy of a photo id and a form filled out...mail it to the city office with a self-addressed envelope…they mail you the vaccine passport.

Satoshi and I had to request for it separately too…

Hoping we all can travel abroad soon...

Saw some items on social media and wanted to try...

Ippudo is selling their ramen soup in the heated drink area of the vending machines.

Since Satoshi shouldn’t be drinking ramen soup we shared this.

150 yen...tasted like watery loco moco gravy/cream of mushroom-y though...gah!

Spam musubi from Family Mart...this one had spam, egg, tuna & mayo in it.

Too bad they don't fry the spam before making the musubi.

At least you need to heat it up before eating but it was so messy, rice falling out here and there while eating.

Our pandemic physical yesterday was fast! everyone was lent an ipad after check-in which beeped every so often to tell you where to go for your next test.

Up until now, Satoshi's company paid for our physicals. 

Since he retired, we are lucky that our health insurance pays for the physicals and I only had to pay $14 for my mammogram.

Again, hope our results will be good.

Over the last week our numbers have been scarily good...2 digits every day.

The amount of deaths is still very high though and there are severe cases still as well.

Tokyo is talking about opening up for eateries and bars starting October 25.

Right now all eateries serving alcohol need to close at 20:00.

If Tokyo opens up, the eateries and bars will need to pass certain criteria to stay open past 20:00.

There are other establishments that haven't been abiding the rules from the start...we'll see what Tokyo decides to do.

"Someone" has already made plans to meet up for drinks with friends next month....

Have a safe weekend.