Second Hello from SF
Hola!Our stay has been crazy with so much going on every day.The craziest part is the shopping!!Oh boy, we will have to buy a luggage to take back home all the stuff we bought.As my son's nursery ("Hoikuen") allows kids to wear only shorts ("Hanzubon") throughout the year, I was hoping to be able to buy some in the U.S.I had such a great deal on his shorts, because all the summer clothing was on final sale.I got shorts for 3, 4 or 5 bucks (dollars) each!!The most expensive one from a nice outdoor brand was still 17 bucks or so.I got myself four pairs of shoes(!!), my husband, who is very tall and finds it hard to buy clothes in Japan, has got some clothes, and all of us got some coats.Today we had lunch with my husband's ex-coworkers at a dim sum ("Yamucha") restaurant.Dim sum in San Francisco is THE BEST!!Off course, the best part was our reunion. It's always pleasure to see old friends.For dinner we went to our Spanish friend's house and he cooked "arroz caldoso" that means "soupy rice".He is a very good cook and makes great paellas, but today something was missing and he couldn't make a real paella, but made something very similar to paella with a lot of seafood.His ex-girlfriend's mother and relatives came to join us.She is my friend from school and I met all her famnily because they invited my husband and me to their family Christmas party and summer campouts every year.Although she and he broke up, her mother and the family miss him a lot.The mother still regrets her daughter made a mistake to brake up with him, as he is such a nice guy and she wished she had had him as her son-in-law.Anyway we had such a nice reunion, and promised to see each other again, hopefully soon.Tomorrow we are going to Napa for winetasting and to get some wines.We are also meeting with my friend who had twins ("Futago") two months ago.She is super busy now, but she will come to see us.Saturday will be our last day, and we will see even more friends...Friends are the best gift I've received in my life, I guess.