Kyle's World

Kanako came to visit last Saturday. I hadn't seen her since April; it's always nice when a proud Kyushu-an has a homecoming. Neither Kanako or myself are any good at making decisions, so it was a bit tough to figure out exactly what the plan was for the day. Finally, we decided on an Amakusa/Hondo driving tour. But that actually turned into a Best Denki tour since we were looking for my friend Yuichi to suggest a good restaurant to us. Alas, he wasn't even working on Saturday as I found out. Figures as much. Anyway, after driving from one end of the town to the other several times, we finally settled on a quaint little family restaurant to quench our hunger. Not bad, except there was absolutely no one in the restaurant. Alao I wasn't really feeling up to anything since my throat was so sore, I guess the sign of my upcoming cold. And to boot the curry was a bit salty. Anyway we left Hondo, driving tour accomplished, but we had to boot it home to make it to the evenings fireworks show. Of course we stopped for mikans though. Well we must've left Hondo too late cuz, despite taking the highway to get to the fireworks, there was still a huge traffic jam just to get off the highway. That's right, a good 3km in 1 hour pace. I must say it was the worst traffic jam I may have ever seen. It was nice to see what fireworks we could from the car though, as well as try not to let any cars cut us off. In the end, the fireworks were not to be. We soon gave up sitting in traffic and went for ramen instead. Sounds like a fair trade to me.