June 8th

Saturday, 8th June, 2013

It was Chikako_san`s birthday ! 

She was sent a bottle of French Champers 

from my Mother.

It tasted as good as the bottle looks. 
Served with chilled glasses. 

I prepared a special dinner for her birthday. 
Garlic shrimp and scallops with salad.

Card and present "slip" - valid for use in Australia in August. 

The table as it looked before we sat down to eat...... 

Birthday cake from Nakago.

Some additional strawberries........

I got some bottles of Chikako`s favourite Oz beer, the mighty VB. 

Sunday, 9th June we drove to Sendai to go to Church. 
It was a very good service with both a Japanese minister and a visiting 

American minister from Mill Valley, California. 

There was a cool jazz band playing in the middle of the street. 

After the night before, which included a late night visit
to Bar Suzuki, we elected for simple fare for Sunday luncheon. 

The herb bread was especially good. 

Just some random shots taken from the car as we drove around Sendai. 

Blast from the past - a somewhat boring mini-video I took

back in May, 2007 as I was going from Narita to London Heathrow. 
Virgin Atlantic Flight taxiing from the terminal to the runway. 

Maybe only of interest to me.