Indulge Me

Well I haven't blogged in a while, as nothing much has been happening, just work and horse-riding mostly. I did go and see a movie with Yuka the other week and that was an interesting experience. The movie was in English with Japanese subtitles and I'm not sure if that was the reason I seemed to be the only person laughing out loud in some places or if it was just because I am a noisy foreigner. :P

This weekend however was something special. My colleagues and I went to Osaka to have a dessert buffet at the "Swissotel". This was paid for by AEON as we had reached a target set for us by the head office (have been doing well out of 'honbu' recently, I was named 'Teacher of the Month' for Kansai in April and so received an engraved pen, also have had my fair share of cookies for reaching other targets). Below you can see my first course...
Are you drooling yet? I most certainly was!

The presentation was also impressive, at either end of the buffet was a chocolate fountain, milk at one end...

White at the other...
Also to be seen were these impressive chocolate sculptures...



Personally I thought it was a bit of a waste of chocolate! ;)

Once back in the Kak, I had a 'cosgirl' (costume) sighting. This one was really decked out, unfortunately I couldn't get too close as I didn't want her to realise I was taking the pic, but you can get the idea.
Rainy season has well and truly arrived so I am getting wet a lot. This morning at riding I was given a free gift of a large umbrella (the other week I got a framed photo, seems to be the month for freebies), don't think I will follow the Japanese and carry it on my bike, safer to stick to a jacket, nor on my horse for that matter :)