16 August 2009

The ladies had asked us what time we wanted breakfast, and we'd plumped for 8am. But having set the alarm to go off at 7.45, we received a call at 7am to tell us that the bath was ready for use. Jill and Anna were already awake but I had been dozing. It was great just lying there with my eyes closed though.

On checking out, the old lady at the desk actually used an abacus to calculate our bill! A taxi soon arrived and deposited us at Kinugasa station, where we decided to be decadent and pay extra for a green car seat again. At Shinagawa station we went to Starbucks for a coffee, but once back in Tokyo I found I was missing Nick and Emily a lot and was keen to get home to them as soon as possible.

Later we all went to Meguro pool. It was a very hot afternoon, so it was packed, but the water was still fairly cool. The novelty seems to be wearing off for Emily and she made it clear that she wanted to leave after a while. On the way out she stopped to dance to some piped dance music. Her version of dancing involves bending her knees and waving her arms in the air; it's very amusing.

I'm afraid I talked myself out of going for my Sunday run as I felt that I had seen so little of Nick all week, but surely 40 minutes wouldn't have made much difference. At least it meant that we ate early and got to bed at a sensible hour though.