Beware

Friday the kids went off to school, but Lyle had the day off! We decided to take a day and head off base. We went to our favorite Yen store and wandered around for awhile. Lyle found a sign for Haru:

Then we went to Jusco, which is like a shopping mall, but different. There is a grocery store and small food shops downstairs, then upstairs there are more little stores, a food court, and an arcade type area. The difference between Japanese "malls" and ours is the walls. With our malls you can tell when you leave one store and enter another, but the Japanese believe that walls trap the spirits, so they try to limit the number of permanent walls in a building. Imagine Walmart, but before you leave each little section you have to pay a cashier (or get arrested for shoplifting)

We have been to Jusco quite a few times and have eaten in the food area upstairs only to find the grocery downstairs has incredible looking Bento boxes and the bakery sells everything from donuts to pizza at very low prices. So this time we grabbed a tray in the bakery and picked out a few things that looked yummy. Then went over to the sushi area and got a small package of different sushi. We also grabbed a couple cold coffees from their cooler.

The food was very good, our favorite was a bun filled with manwich type filling before it was baked, so the bread wrapped around the filling (I am going to try to copy this at home). Our sushi was pretty good, Lyle picked it so we could recognize everything in it :) The coffee was an experience. We picked a bottle that looked similar to Blendy, and a new one, that had a straw on the side and said "coffee jelly" in English. The Blendy drink was good, not as creamy as our real Blendy but still good. The Coffee Jelly, was just that! Coffee with cream and chunks of coffee jelly floating in it. It tasted pretty good, once you got past the texture thing!

After that it was home to take a quick nap before the kids came home. All in all a very nice day!