I have a cold!! :'(((( I have slept most of the day because of it. Now I just can not bear the thought of sleeping any more. So I will write something for you!

More different things...
Cars must stop one to two car-lengths back from the traffic lights because the roads are so narrow that even regular cars need the extra room when turning.
No garbage can in the kitchen, is this normal?

So yesterday I spent my first time "shopping." We wanted to explore, but as we have discovered, if we do not have a specific place and a specific task in mind, we get one quick. We said we were going to go exploring, and then Otousan was telling us about this shopping mall that is only two stops away on the subway. And then he had decided that that's where we were going...yeah, his English is okay, but not good enough to refute things like that. So we went, promising to get some French bread while we were there.

They told us how to find the bread store, but they didn't tell us that it would be nestled in a basement full of all sorts of goodies. There must have been 25 stands of goodies just asking us to eat them. Most of them looked pretty French. There was lots of strawberry-topped cake!!! So I had to haul Conny through it all so we could get what we came for. As it was, later we bought four different pieces of cake to bring back with us for dinner. And a couple of donut goodies to eat right away!!

So after that, we escaped to do some real shopping. Except everything was way expensive!! So we just wandered around, looked at the crazy shoes, and lamented over the slain bunnies. The shoes are INSANE! All I can say is that they like color, a lot, and all together. All of them had pointy pointy toes, small heals, and were covered with stripes of rainbow, metallic, and patterned color. And some of them had strings of bells to go along with. It was okay that they were way expensive, because I didn't want to buy any. And we couldn't figure out if we could touch them or not. The salespeople kept saying "irashaimase" and there was a different one every 10 feet or so. When they muttered something at us, we didn't understand. Anyway...

The other stuff was mostly okay, with a little splash of WAY GARISH intersperced at regular intervals. They had a whole section of bright green purses. I guess it's a brand or something?? When they take to something, they take to it hard!!

And then there was the rack of fur stoles. At least half of them had to be real, and I don't know about the other half. And they were marked 50% off. That's the worth of life these days. So we petted them and murmured to them for about five minutes.

Yo, gotta taberu (eat).