Sandy's Birthday.

For Sandy's birthday we went out to a local vegetarian place for a buffet lunch, and then on the way back, saw a sign selling fresh strawberries. In following the strawberry sign, we came across another sign for fresh tomatoes. Just a little place, right next to the fields and hothouses, selling fresh [sometimes it pays to live out in inaka country] produce for cheap. And the name of the place was Jichan's Tomatoes [Grampa's Tomatoes] and you can read the name on the little slip if you blow up the pic. Too cute. And they threw in a free cabbage! Pays to be the weird looking foreigner.





But we eventually found the strawberries, where you could, get this - pick all you can eat for a certain amount - tabehodai. The catch is you had to pick and eat them there. How awesome. We picked and took ours to go though. Funniest thing was that Sandy had gotten a flyer in the city about picking strawberries, and almost went there for her birthday. But we decided against it because we wanted to take it relatively easy for her b-day. And we ended up picking strawberries anyways.

Sandy, a great lover of the strawberry.

Also, a goofball.





Sandy's gift haul.


Including, god help us all, Judith Krantz DVD's.



And cool Hakata hina dolls from Hisako-san.