Food and Toilets

Funny how the two go together. We are eexperiencing some really different foods. Am I proud of myself for trying these new things. We went downtown Yokosuka, which is where Jana lives, to have lunch. All of you will probably be surprised to hear that my choice was a vegetable tempora bowl which included 2 string beans, egg plant, lotus root, sweet potato, mushroom and of course rice. (Or thank goodness, rice.) Pat and Jana had fish temporal bowls which featured, shrimp, squid, pumpkin and green beans. In the past two days we have tried wasabi (horseradish) and yam ice cream cones.

Now about the toilets. I'm including a picture of the Japanese toilets that we most often have to use when we are out and about. The day at the waterfall, I got really grossed out because most women can't seem to hit the spot. I saw things I really don't want to think about. I decided to just make a practice of "holding it." They are also often tissueless and they don't have paper towels. When I chose not to use a toilet because it had no tissue, a Japanese lady opened her purse and gave me some tissue. We now take kleenex where ever we go. Also Jana has given each of us a little towel to carry in our purses to dry out hands.

There is another side to those toilets. Twice we have found regular toilets with toilet paper and in addition the seats are heated.

Tonight we have a craft project. We are making Japanese boxes.