A regular day includes me taking the kids to school followed by noodles on the street and watching the world go by for an interesting breakfast, which indeed is a good way to start the day -- The ride is not far, and gets the day started.
Today though we did some special shopping. In addition to my departure tomorrow, Matt is leaving for a few days and will have an opportunity to take some school supplies to an impoverished community. He was supposed to make this trip while I was here but schedules got changed and well he didn't, they rented a new apartment instead. That is another story, but the trip is got delayed and is now on.
So the kids took some of their allowance and went to the local dongshei ("stuff") store -- that by the way is and excellent name for the store -- think old time hardware store crossed with old time 5 & dime store with" made in Japan" stuff from the early 50's -- yes that cheap plastic and metal stuff -- it is still being manufactured
name something other than food and clothing -- it is in there -- and the store is smaller than the living room- kitchen of your house. but packed. Seriously -- coat tree - check , tape measure - check, cook pots- check, toy Dr. set- check, basketball- check, perfume- check, window fan- check, hammer- check, and so on.
Though we were not buying toys, there were some that did need to be checked out, especially the big trucks.
And the isles and a little tight,
they bought notebooks, pens, pencil boxes, erasures, stickers, each item carefully selected.
The kids do a lot of shopping here and know the store and staff well.
(and are well known)
in the morning it is off to the airport and home, been great --sure will miss being here but looking forward to getting home too.
What a great final post - I love that store too. Fascinating collection of items. Glad to have you home!
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