A very pleasant day and evening

We were both a bit tired from  all our walking yesterday and Noels ankles were badly swollen and so he sat in the shower and sprayed cold water all over them for about twenty minutes and hoped it would help as we were due to do a lot more walking later.
Jennifer did a bit of washing and Noel caught up on some emails and then we left the Hotel around 11.30 to walk to the local Ginza Line Station which was perhaps nearly on mile away to catch a train to Ginza Station to meet up with some Japanese friends for lunch in a Chinese restaurant. When we arrived at the station it was about another half a mile from the train to the restaurant and by some chance our host had also just arrived at Ginza Station and was a few steps behind and caught us up. We first met Aki when we lived in Tokyo and he was working first of all from British Caledonian Airways from when they started to fly to Tokyo and when British Airways took them over Aki became the Cargo Manager for Japan.  Over the years we have met up with Aki and his wife Miko and we have a strong relationship as many years ago we took care of his son Yugo for about a year whilst he was learning English and we became his second parents for a year.

He was about 16 years old when he stayed with us and now he is married with one little girl and a brother on the way in December this year.
We had a nice lunch and it was great to catch up and it was interesting that the last time that they came to the house was part way through the building extension work nearly ten years ago and so it was interesting for them to see photos of the finished article. We discussed our moving plans and it would appear they have a similar idea now their children have left home and the same applies to us.

We left the restaurant and took some photos around one part of Ginza and then started the trip home and once we got back to the station we started from we could so some food shopping as following our lunch we only needed a snack tonight and so a quick visit to the Supermarket. The back to the Hotel where we started to repack our three big suitcases and two roller bags so that over the next week we don't have to take all five bags in to the Hotel when we travel from hotel to another around Southern Japan. Once we had completed that we had a ham roll and and a glass of wine and watched a fil called State of Play , which to be frank we have watched before but it is very good.
And So to bed