Farewell to Nagoya

My family at the house where we had dinner.

Last night I got to go to a special dinner it was called a tempura dinner. We went to a place called Shofukaku (http://www.shofukaku.jp/english/), which was a huge old building with different rooms.  At first, we thought we were at the wrong place, because it looked like a house!  The woman at the door didn’t speak English, but after some gestures we figured out we were at the right place (but at the back door).  We took our shoes off and then we met Kenichi and another Japenese doctor (Professor Ito, but in Japan they call him Ito-sensei).  We went to our own room made only for 6 people, where we sat around a small kitchen.  Our chef showed us a bunch of food, including shrimp (heads and tails), fish, eels, shrimp-stuffed shitake mushrooms, and lots of veggies.  The food was deep fried right in front of us!  I also got my own sushi plate again, since Kenichi knows I love it. And the best part was trying the shrimp heads, they were crunchy and yummy.  It was a long dinner, and it was a lot of fun.  After dinner we went to the front of the house and took some pictures of our new friends and of the small garden.  It was a nice last night in Nagoya.

The Garden at our restaurant

Our last dinner party!

Niamh and I enjoying our last dinner party.

Kenichi, Professor Ito, and my Dad.

Niamhs special dinner (no Fish!)

I slept really good after the big meal, and I woke up at 6:00am this morning (Monday), forgetting that today was the day we were leaving Nagoya.  We are going to go to Kyoto today! When I finally got out of bed I took my shower and got dressed. My mom and dad must have woken up early, because they were dressed, showered and packing our suitcases. After we finished most of our packing we went down to breakfast.  My Dad told me that the Packers won, it is Sunday afternoon at home so they were playing when we were waking up.