Friday, July 14, 2006

Hometown Surprises

Hello everyone, It's Gabe here...
Yesterday afternoon we visted with our good friend Toba Sensei. She is a Japanese teacher and recently retired from Sumita High School. She had us over to her house for lunch. She prepared a very fancy meal of fresh uni (sea urchin roe) and unagi don (eel over rice). It was an amazing lunch and we had a wonderful time visiting with her. Click here to read more about unagi in summer.

Afterwards, Toba Sensei showed us two beautiful local sites that, despite living here for three years, we had never heard about or seen. Actually the places are not in out town but they are only 30 minutes from our home. The surprises never end!

Here you can see what uni (sea urchin roe) looks like:


View from Hakoneyama (Mountaintop Overlook near our home):


Buddhist Temple Garden:

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