From Tokushima, with Love

 I made it here.  It's been a rather busy day.  Susan and Brooke (I do not yet have pictures of them, but when I do I'll post them) met me at the airport.

This is just outside the Tokushima airport.  That's my SVSU mask around my neck.  You'll see it a few more times.  After loading my bags, we went for a bit of a drive and ended up at a park.  I got to have a sudachi soda and a sweet potato cookie.  Sudachi is a type of citrus fruit with a flavor like dry lime.  Dry in the alcohol sense of not sweet.  I liked it quite a bit.  The sweet potato cookie had a very cake like texture - sour cream cookie texture for the 5 people who know what that is.

Here I am at the park

It was right on the Pacific Ocean.  I didn't take any pictures because I'm terrible about doing that.  Some day soon I'll get to the beach again and take pictures to post.

After spending a bit of time just enjoying air and wide open spaces, we went for lunch at Garano.  Maybe it was Grano.  I'll have to ask.  I had chicken teriyaki, and it was delicious.

Fried egg is another under-utilized condiment.  The chicken is under the egg.  The vegetables included potato, broccoli, and lotus root.  Jen and I have slightly different feelings about chicken.  She prefers it to be cleaned up with as little fat and connective tissue as possible.  I get where she is with that.  However, every now and then I want the extra stuff.  This piece of chicken had the extra stuff.  The flavor of everything was very good.  And the rice by itself was wonderful.  I enjoyed the meal.

After lunch we dropped my bags at the apartment.  (I'm still getting myself settled in here.  Tomorrow's post will include apartment pictures.)  We then went to get a few groceries for me.  Tami said I would need to go to Fuji Grand for shopping.  Last year a Don Quixote's, or Donki, opened just up the road from the guest house.  Brooke said it's Japanese capitalism at its most extreme.  It's hard to argue with that.  It has a casino/carnival feeling in that it's very easy to get lost.  I'll be going back later this week.

This is a very late post for me.  I apologize.  Tomorrow's post will be the apartment and planning for Monday.  I'll take a walk around the area and figure out what might be interesting to show everyone.

This is where the fun begins.