Birthday I

Well finally the 22nd of november had arrived. Waking up in good spirits this time...knowing that Alexandra and Christoph would be making breakfast for after our one lecture that day...a german hearty breakfast i.e. healthy and yet tasty with fresh orange juice, good bread, and lotsa fresh fruit too. It was sort of a brunch,but just a little too early for Mimosas ........ 残念ね zannen ne! You can figure out what that Japanese word means.
Opened a package from Holland (which I was not to open till today) with a big red nose, balloons and guirlandes in it...(thanks to the Family Bakker in Alkmaar)
Paul's present was a fab book on the architect of the new MoMa in New York, Yoshio Taniguchi, all the way from the big apple. Paul and I had seen a museum building by him in Tokyo and were then duly impressed.
Bought myself a little something too... called a Hounoumaku 奉納幕, an offering curtain which you normally find in front of shrines and other religious or also commercial places. Bespoke with my own characters, karyuudo 狩人 on it and some symbols befitting a hunter.
A sunny day all in all wit not much to do till 5 o'clock when we had to meet Aki to go in to town to celebrate.......