I thought I'd be posting more this week sine it's Spring Break for Mike but here it is 4 day into his break and I'm just now posting! We've had the sickies lately so we haven't done anything too exciting. Today's main goal was to finally go to the big JA Market.
It was noon when we headed out so we got lunch out. I've been craving the Titicaca Peruvian place but also wanted to try something new. I saw a sign for a place on Sunday but it was closed (I think it's more like an izakaya and only open at night). We decided to eat at the place next door called Lima Restaurant. The had a lunch buffet for 750 yen. We sat in the tatami section next to a tableful of sweet obaasans who we were pretty sure were speaking a lot of the Hogan language. The buffet was not big and had a lot of traditional Japanese food: white rice, jushi rice, japanese curry, tempura, bean sprout chanpuru, salad, red beans with mochi, and soba to name some. I was able to find enough to eat so I wouldn't cry (as Mike said, alluding to the few times during pregnancy when a lack of gluten free options would make me upset). It was pretty good, not my favorite but I was definitely not disappointed.
Later we went to the JA farmers market which will become a favorite of mine. We went in and didn't know where to look first! There were so many vegetables (not a large selection of fruit though) to choose from! The prices were really great too. We walked out with broccoli, lettuce, potatoes, onions, cherry tomatoes, a yellow squash, green beans, carrots, a small papaya, celery, and 2 small onigiris (I think that's all we bought) for less than 2500 yen. I think we'll be going there a lot more often now!
It was a pretty productive day :)