this and that

Retro...sink in our room....

Cute figurine at Ryokan Heianbo

The Jizo statue sitting under the camellia tree at the ryokan.

The bunny and monkey and the ryokan.

Wish I was able to show you the cat that lives at this ryokan named Chi...so cute but super shy. (UPDATE: this ryokan permanently closed)
 

We went to MIL's before coming back to Tokyo so Satoshi could lug more of his "stuff" back.

BIL turned off the gas and water so we weren't able to use the bathroom while we were there, since it was fahreezing, I gave Satoshi a max of 1 hour to get what he wanted from his room.

While he did that, I packed the big version of the reddish painted bowls, here's the smaller one next to it to show you the difference in size.

and these chawan that MIL used to serve us rice in called Meotochawan...

Meoto means husband and wife...and we were saying how "prejudice" these were by saying the wife should only eat a little...ahem

Also, while I was waiting for Satoshi to get his things together, I ran across the street to Kamo Donuts...coconut chocolate for me and a crueller for Satoshi, which we had on the Shinkansen.

So much more stuff for Satoshi to go through...