Fukui: Day 2

We woke up on Saturday to sunshine! Thank goodness. It was so ugly on Friday. We planned on heading down to Obama today. We mostly went just to take pictures like these:

but we got lucky and got extra fun pictures like these!

Obama was a cute little beachy town though. Probably even better in the summer when you can enjoy the beach. We stopped at a restaurant where we could enjoy the view of the ocean over octopus and noodles. Yum!

After we headed back to Fukui (pronounced foo-koo-ee by the way) we met up with Tessa, Kim, Rob and Tessa's bff and and brother that arrived the same day. I've lived in Japan for 18 months now give or take, but since I have the luxury of an "American" grocery store, I don't make a lot of Japanese food. Since Hil and her friends have to shop at the Japanese grocery store, they taught me lots of fun things that they make. For dinner, we made nabe (nah-bay). It's pretty much a stew, but you purchase the broth part and servc it over rice. Delicious!

It's pretty cozy in a Japanese living room! Stella enjoyed our dinner party as well. Thanks for the hospitality Tessa!