Thursday and Friday

Busy Busy Busy... Yesterday I went with my new friend, Patti, to the Shibuya area to go to a Tokyo Hands store (think Tokyo Target). I planned the route on the train and off we went. It was a two trainer... It was so fun to just walk from floor to floor with no real direction. After we left we wandered the streets and found some nice stores - this is a nice clothing shopping district and there are several places I will more than likely come back too - shoes, Clinique, Disney... but the best part was when we rounded the corner and walked straight to a Krispy Kreme! I almost walked out in front of a car I got so excited! Of course, we had to go in and sample - it's a real store with the windows showing the cooking process. I only got a half dozen since it was around $16 a dozen and took them home for a treat. I heard that sometimes the line to get in is around 2 hours long!

Today I went to Back to School day at Nicholas's school and then Back to School Night at Sydney's school. This morning, I rode the parent bus out to Chofu (I sat next to a woman who lived on the American embassy compound) and listened to the presentations and saw Nicholas on the playground. Of course, he's already in the state where he's too cool for mommy at school and I did good to get a high five as he went off to play soccer... really good for the Mommy ego! but he did introduce me to his friends and I watched him play on the big field. Fortunately when it was time to go, I was chatting with some women and I got an offer for a ride which kept me from having to hoof it back on the train! YEEHA! Again everyone is so willing to help out since we are all living as fish out of our natural habitat!

This evening I went to Sydney's school for the Back to School event. Chris stayed home with the kiddoes since this was a "non kid" event - it was nice time filled with mostly socializing of the parents! Definitely good people watching...

Tomorrow starts the weekend and we really don't have any plans - I would like to just stay around the house for the most part... but we'll see...