We went to Nagoya to visit the Andos, old friends from Nick's days at Mitsubishi in London. We were on the wrong side of train, but it was very clear so we had good glimpses of Fuji through the opposite window. Emily had been up at 6.15, so was very tired and slept most of the hour and a half Shinkansen journey. There was a bitterly cold wind on arrival, much colder than Tokyo. We made our way to the Ando's apartment on the packed, stultifyingly hot subway.
Emily was soon chasing Fukuchan, their pretty, long-haired cat - a very timorous beastie at the best of times. She retreated, hissing and growling. Instead, Emily decided to play with the cat's toys. After a while we went out locally to a little cafe for lunch. Having told them how good she was, Emily was playing up and dropping her finger food onto the floor, so she had to have some of my omu-rice (omlette stuffed with rice) and chocolate cake, otherwise there would not have been enough food for her.
We spent the rest of the afternoon at their place. There was lots of stuff around for Emily to systematically destroy! Not at all childproof. After Emily had obligingly gone to sleep on the futon in the spare room we had dinner. Nick had forgotten to mention I don't eat meat, so Yukiji-san had prepared a big nabe (stew) with chicken and pork, and a platter of chicken wings. I managed to avoid eating any, and there was just about enough sushi to fill me up. We were both very weary and turned in at 10.30. We found that Emily was taking up a whole futon so we had to share the other one.
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