どようび。

So....It is Saturday in Japan.

What does the average person do on a Saturday

in this part of the world.

Well, one dresses nicely, has breakfast, takes the

lift to the ground floor, (which in Japan is in fact

the first floor) and walks through the carpark

to find the Gaia in it's parking space.

Then, one clambers into the car and drives it into the street,

taking care (not always successfully) to miss

the lightpole in front of the apartment block.

The first half of the trip culminates at the

fine establishment depicted above.

That is MaxValue, where everyone greets you with

いらっしゃいませ, and where you can buy the best

daikon, leeks, fish, fruit and rice crackers in the

world. It is a nice, clean, inexpensive shop which

has a wide variety of excellent goodies.

That's how Saturday begins.....And it only gets

better after that. I miss it!