No.019 Relaxing Homecoming to Goto

I am spending a relaxing time at my parents' home for the first time in eight months.

[Short-term nutritional replenishment]

During my 9-day stay, I am having my mother's cooking for all three meals every day.

For breakfast, miso soup, rice, and rice accompaniments (pickled plums, tsukudani, seasoned seaweed).

For lunch, chilled somen noodles and zenzai (sweet red bean soup).

For dinner, salad, tokoroten (agar noodles), simmered dishes, grilled eggplant, sashimi (silver-stripe round herring, sea bream, yellowtail), Goto beef, and more...

[Visiting the graves]

Visiting the graves during the day is too hot and takes a toll on the body, so...

Woke up at 3:00 AM, breakfast at 4:00 AM, departed at 4:45 AM, and arrived at the first grave at 5:05 AM.

At 5:20 AM, I climbed a steep slope toward the mountainside of a church, wiped the gravestones with water, picked up trash on the grounds, and prayed.

*I snapped a photo of the view from the grave, just as the sun was rising.

At 6:00 AM, I arrived at the second grave and performed the same tasks as the first.

Returned home at 6:30 AM.

[Reunion with friends]

Part 1: A long-awaited reunion with two friends who were with me from elementary school through high school.

The three of us went for a drive.

We toured Mizunoura Church -> Miiraku Church -> Kentoshi Furusato-kan -> Takahama Beach.

Part 2: Reunited with two friends who went to the same junior high school.

While eating at T-Store, we laughed out loud as we caught up on each other's lives and reminisced about our junior high days.

We were so absorbed in our conversation that we didn't realize three and a half hours had passed. ^ ^