Geocaching with Jo (and Hiroko of course)

Great day out with my partner from the UK. We were ootnaboot in the cold, strong wind enjoying the massive stones that make up the walls of the original Edo Castle built by the first shogun of Japan.

We spent a lot of time walking around the moats and seeing the sights and enjoying all the runners run around the palace and looking for geo-caches.

We found three of the five we look for but we think that two of them have been Muggled. That’s the way goes the Geocaching goes I guess but she had a great time and we got to hook her on to Geocaching. So I hope that when she goes back to the UK Jo will enjoy it with her husband and have a great time out on their walks enjoying the process and just having a good time enjoying finding some little things hidden here and there.

After we dropped Jo off Hiroko and I went off to do another three more geo-caches on the way to Abercrombie and Fitch to buy me a new shirt. It was cold out but we got the caches.

Thanks Jo an Hiroko for a great day! Melty Kisses to you both.

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Bonus One

Hiroko and I seem to be working extremely tough weeks these months so when it’s time to get into bed the next thing we realize is that it’s already morning. We are left wondering what happened to the promised chats and snuggles. I guess that’s what happens from time to time. Or from week to week. Or month to month.

We finally got ootnaboot on her new folding Dahon bike that we bought a month ago. It has been impossible to get out on our bikes due to the previously mentioned exhaustion.

It was a good ride and we wen to Second Street (the store where Stefnee got all her cool Japanese t-shirts) to see if they would take her Celine bag but hey told her they don’t accept “super brands”. They showed an entire list of the brands they cannot accept: Gucci, Vitton, Coach, Ferragamo, Fendi etc. So we were out of luck on that. She also wanted to sell off or give away a few pieces of her old dresses but they wouldn’t take them as they were ” too formal for the store”. So we brought everything home.

But before heading home we rode around to an UniQlo in order to get me a couple more sweat absorbing undershirts and an ultralight down jacket for Hiroko.

Then we wondered what to do next as we still had an opportunity to ride around a bit. So I pulled out my trusty iPhone and ran the Geocaching app. Sure enough a mere 450m away was a cache. We followed the coordinates and grabbed the cache right away.

It has a gorgeous geocoin in it so I grabbed that and will replace it somewhere else. It really is a beaut.

We rode home with absolutely frozen fingers in spite of wearing gloves and mittens, cooked and ate nabe for dinner, enjoyed some hot wine and then relaxed by ironing three shirts.

What a great day!

Tomorrow we are going to meet Joanna from the UK and take her to the Imperial palace gardens to enjoy the sight. It’s a gorgeous garden and it just happens to be on my list of Serenity spots so you know what will be in my bag tomorrow!

Oh and did I say that there are a whole slew of geocaches!

Joanna is our business partner from the UK.

I love you!

Cam

Dinner Conversation

I’m sorry but I have to share this… We are eating dinner and Hiroko told me about one of her patients today…

Hiroko is an ENT nurse (no she doesn’t treat trees in Middle Earth) and today she had a really smelly patient.

The patient complained of something in her ear that seemed to be moving for TWO DAYS. Finally it stopped moving but she was having trouble hearing.

The doctor and Hiroko dug out what was in the woman’s ear and it came out in bits and pieces: A leg, an antenna, another leg, etc. finally they succeeded in pulling out the entire body (in bits and pieces) of a 2cm cockroach!

She told me that this is her third experience with this kind of living thing in people’s ears…. But I don’t want to hear any more as we are having dinner at the moment…

Enjoy your day… If you can with that image running through your mind….

*gag*

Cam

Hatsudai GeoCaching

Today I got to my meeting point early. I had a coffee and 45 minutes to kill so I pulled out the trusty old iPhone, loaded up the geocaching app and discovered that there were two caches in the area.

The first one was easy to find and was only about 500m from the meeting point. The second one was a nano cache and was a little more difficult to see due to its size. It was also hard to get out without a tool. But I got it out.

The second cache is called “the inverted broomstick” and is located at a 200+ year old ginkgo tree that is surrounded by skyscrapers and super highways. It’s pretty cool that they kept this tree around!

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Hie Jinja Hatsumode Geocache

Our BD team came out to Hi Jinja for first New Year Prayers. After ringing the bell and praying that we pull this project off I went around back and grabbed a cache. Good spot and a nice escape from this company stuff.

Here are a few photos.

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I love you!
Cam