Luckily, A felt better after a night’s sleep. We had granola and yogurt for breakfast, plus the croissants I picked up yesterday from my bakery. We watched Howl’s Moving Castle together. That movie is still just as awesome as the first time I saw it. Howl...sigh. We got lunch at CO-JIRO. The woman even translated the lunch set menu for us into English! We stopped by two touristy shops and the daifuku mochi shop on the walk home. At the second tourist shop they gave us a real silk cocoon to take with, just like what I had seen at the silk mill before! At the mochi shop, they remembered me and gave me some sweet compliments. The last time A was there, she got a tour of the place, behind the scenes! They were excited to see her again as well. I could understand enough of what they were saying and asking, but A managed to tell them that she was visiting me.

Then we headed over to the green tea cafe, my favorite place in Tomioka! The guy who speaks English was there again and chatted quite nicely with us. A choose to get a gelato assortment which he helped out with. We even got a free extra scoop. We had rum raisin, chestnut, pistachio, milk, matcha #1 (the weakest level), matcha #5 (the strongest), matcha #3. All the gelato was delicious but I really liked the strongest green tea one. It left a bitter aftertaste on your tongue. I got matcha cake rolls. Fantastic! And then we got some matcha jelly squares (made of rice) with honey sauce on the house. Such amazing food and service. Yum!

After A left, I drove over to Annaka to help S with his move. He got caught with his cat after a year and a half in his no pet apartment. Luckily he found a new place down the street from his old one. Two other friends came with their car as well. Between our cars, we managed to get most of his stuff to his new place including a lot of larger furniture. The trunk space with the seat folded down is intense in my car! He treated us to Italian for dinner. I had super yummy gnocchi!