ruthinnagoya!

Ruth finally made a visit to Nagoya after much coaxing and persuading from the Nagoyan British entourage! I was so pleased, I havent seen her since early December when Sven and I stayed at her place while we were making a trip to Disney Park.

Ruth had hitchhiked with a fellow Sheffield-lite from Tokyo all the way down to Nagoya- a six hours journey in all! I was especially impressed because Matt and I had failed in our attempt to hitchhike from Kanchanaburi to Bangkok, we lacked the perserverance and gave up after 15 minutes.

Ruth and Matt (no relations to Thai trip Matt) were only stopping for a day while on their journey to Kobe, so we went out for dinner at Outback in Sakae cos I have been craving a good jacket potato with melted butter and topped with scrumptious bacon pieces. Life without an oven is sad and I end up missing the strangest things, before coming to Japan I'd never thought I'd crave jacket potatoes of all things.

Kevin and I shared the yummiest jacket potato, rack of ribs, steak and chicken wings combo....mmmmMMMMMmmmm!

I had to show Ruth my Jenny Packham dress since I'd thought of her when I'd bought it. She has something similar hanging proudly on her wall in Tokyo and we'd always said that we'll get dressed up and hit the towns. I'm heading to Tokyo next week for St Paddy's Day and Jenny Packham is coming with me.