Tokyo Sky Club...Yes Please!

Okay, so we're on our way to Beijing, and we have a little layover in Tokyo.  It's turning out pretty well, and the Delta lounge in Tokyo is INSANE! Even though the pasta and sauce had potatoes in it (wait, oh yeah, Italians always mix potatoes in with their pasta!) there was quite a good spread.  They have chocolate cake, sushi with gourd, sandwiches, salad, soup, the whole shebang. And they even have this little treasure:

Yes, you may be thinking this is how you become the next Green Lantern, or even the Green Hornet, but alas, no. This is one of Fanta's long lost greats.  Steve says it's Green Apple, although I'm pretty sure it said it was Melon Soda. So you're thinking just taste it, right? Not so easy,  it really does taste like some strange combination of the two. Despite its lacking of superhuman qualities, the first cultural food experience (the soda, not the pasta) in Asia was pretty dang good.

So far it's pretty close to home, except for the heated toilet seats. If you're brave enough to sit down on one in a public place, I'm sure they're quite pleasant.  But even better, they have rooms where you can take showers.  Basically you have your own personal bathroom in an airport halfway around the world.  Pretty sweet. 

Plus there's this bonus that everyone somehow knows to speak English to us.....

America's Next Top Chef

Steve has decided to learn how to cook...and apparently the learning curve is non-existent for him because he already made this:

Grilled pineapple and brown sugar, mmmmmmmmmmmm. If Homer Simpson were here, he'd be drooling right now. And.....drum roll please................

Honey and hoisin glazed pork tenderloin on the barbie. Steve even trimmed the pork himself before cooking it. And a picture of the great chef himself ("Let me taste this for you").

In other news, Steve and I have started a book club.  The only way I can actually keep up on a book is if we read it together, literally (and literaturelly, haha). We just finished Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen. Definite good read, for girls at least, Steve kind of got suckered into it.

Right now we're a little ways in The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. A lot of the references are over my head, so it's a learning experience for me and a teaching experience for Steve. Good thing I married into cultural literacy. The book is about a young girl and an older lady who hide behind what society thinks they should be, until a stranger meets them and sees them for who they really are. So far so good I think.


Meanwhile, as I was writing this, Steve was working on this with the disposal...

Sorry Bill and Lisa, we'll get you a new teaspoon.

Well, just to the power of two right now....

This will get a little more exciting when we actually get exciting, but don't hold your breath...