Dinner at Kinpa Ginpa

Josh reminded me that he has duty this weekend so we decided to go out exploring tonight. We've suddenly realized that we've already been here a year and we need to get cracking on our bucket list.

So we headed out to Kinpa Ginpa which is an izakaya, sort of like tapas. I'm probably spelling that wrong. Anyway, you're supposed to stick around for awhile and drink and be merry and order food sporadically and share with friends. We just went for dinner and no drinks. Though one of these days I'm going to have a gin fizz, just because I've never had one and it sounds festive.




Thomas was very happy to jump from stone to stone.


It's tatami seating but they have holes in the floor for your feet. It's the best of both worlds, because I love taking my shoes off but hate sitting indian style.

I loved the little corner we sat in. Thomas could look outside at the flowers and cars and he was pretty contained but there was still room for him to play.



I took this picture because it cracked me up to see Goat sashimi (chewy), like thanks for the warning! We did not order the raw goat, lol. We did get the squid ink yakisoba though!


This pictures isn't so great but there's an explanation on there about Jew's ear that they put in the ramen. It's flavorless but healthy apparently. We liked it.


Squid ink yakisoba. Not bad, not good. There were tentacles hiding under the seaweed and it was kind of greasy.

Teriyaki chicken. Always good.

Garlic and onion pork ramen. We LOVED this one!

When we were ready to leave they got our shoes off the shoe rack and lined them up for us. I thought that was really nice, although a little gross.

Here's a random picture of my Thomas.

And my newest kokeshi doll. I love her.

ETWS

We drive past a huge store called ETWS all the time and today I decided to finally go in. It's AWESOME! The most random grouping of items you never knew you needed!




These are the few things I actually bought. I can't resist bath bombs/fizzies/oil/soaks. I was also pretty excited about peppermint pez, but there wasn't anything in it. That was disappointing. I'll give it to Thomas. He loves having places to hide his little treasures.


I only took a few pictures because it was crowded and I just feel like a douche taking pictures in stores. The Hello Kitty cookware had me really tempted!


Do you see the price on that candle??? That's over $40 with the exchange rate right now. Insult to injury is that we get Yankee candles on base at a discount. They're being screwed.

There were other delightful items that I would have bought if I had any real reason to. For example, a tiny shopping cart complete with child seat (only about the size of your hand), bongs, and other drug accessories, toys, a pair of breasts that talk about breast issues when you walk by, watches, kitchen items, bath items, crafts and stationery things. There was also a costume shop, prank store and an adult corner. I was a fan of the ice cube trays. They had asteroid (the game), vampire fangs, human teeth, spaceships and all manner of animals.


I'm totally going back for Christmas shopping.

Typhoon Muifa

If you look outside my windows right now you probably wouldn't even know there was such a long lasting typhoon the past few days. I took before pictures but they don't look much different now that I took after ones.

Then I went on facebook and found that not everyone was so lucky. I'm feeling very glad that we have a garage and aren't in a flood prone area.








We're in recovery stage right now, we still have to wait for storm watch to leave the house. Although there won't be anywhere to really go until all clear. I can't believe this storm lasted for so long! We learned a few lessons this time around, like tie up your curtains so they don't become sponges when the water comes in your sliding glass doors. When you buy typhoon food think in terms of meals instead of snacks and make sure you have a lot of entertainment on hand.