Colder...

Yep,
It`s a chillin` down in Godo-Towne. To put a positive spin on the approaching winter months, Nic and I strutted in to Gifu yesterday and sorted her out a right nice little snowboard. In the stark white. It`s perty. She managed to get herself some click-in bindings too, which just save you so much time at the top, they have to be worth it. So we are looking to the sky and she is itching to try out the new board. I`d wager a month or so before the season starts, so the neighbours are going to have to get used to Nic snowboarding down the stairwell for a wee bit, aaaaah well.

In other news...not much has happened. A surprisingly sifty weekend, kicked off by a grand night at the local Izakaya on Friday followed by an all too early wakeup Saturday morning to make the trip in to Nagoya for a look around. Did some solid strolling on what was a lovely blue-sky day. It takes just over an hour to get in to Nagoya, and you get a chance to see some of the crazed public works that has been theoretically "kickstarting" the Japanese economy for the last decade. MASSIVE overpasses, underpasses, throughpasses, roundpasses, essentially the entire way there is along a former 6 lane highway over which they are constructing a....6 lane highway. (earthquake anyone?). A good chance to see some enormous bundles of yen thrown around. They are planning to have it finished in a year or two, and then they are going to tackle the 6 lane highway under the elevated 6 lane highway. Whew!
Still, a grand day out.
Are planning some sort of a road trip next weekend, being a long weekend, but are still undecided.
Have some fun people,
berin

Oh yes - and an enormously belated "good luck, go get `em tiger" and not so belated "well done, have a drink and wait for the results" to our Dr. Jane. Top stuff.