We got the weekend the wrong way round. As it was cold and wet in the morning it would have been better to shop today and be outside yesterday.
I popped out to the local hairdresser for a hair cut while Nick fed and played with Emily. There are small but noticeable differences to a saloon visit at home. When your hair is washed they cover your face with a cloth. Not sure if it is to protect your make-up from splashes or should I be worried that I have bad breath? After being seated a blanket was laid on my knees, though goodness knows it was hot as Hades in there. At home, conversation usually tails off when the hairdresser asks me if I've seen the latest Pop Idol/X Factor/Strictly and I say that I only really watch current affairs and documentaries. Still, not being able to communicate at all is very frustrating and being tended to in silence for an hour is uncomfortable. After the cut I was given a brief but vigorous shoulder massage by a young man.
We went to Midtown afterwards - first time there for me, though it is not much further than Roppongi Hills. It is a skyscraper, with shops and restaurants on the first few floors. We had a decent curry lunch, and Emily was very cheerful, playing with spoons and straws and drinking copious amounts of mango juice. There is no children's play area, unfortunately, but we let her crawl around the spacious hallways, and there is a large marble carving with a hollow in one side which she liked sitting in.
We were a bit taken aback when a little English boy of three gave her a kiss after his mother urged him to be gentle with her! After a quick coffee we walked to Roppongi Hills so Emily could get out and play for a while in the family room there. Leaving for home, the blue and white lights on the trees in Keyakizaka suddenly came on just as we were walking down, giving rise to lots of oohs and aahs from the many people strolling there.
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