Day 71 in Japan - OniGhibli (おにぎぶり)

Had the traditional Sunday sleep-in, clean, wash, housework, etc. We also did a bit of fun wall decoration - we've started sticking up all of our memories of Japan on the wall to remind us of our good times. Ahhh, good times.

I'm WAAAAALKING in the rain.

We went for a walk in the rain to Max Value, for some breakfast pastries, and to do some serious food shopping. After all of the weekend excursions over the last few weeks, the cupboards were looking a bit bare, and I have been craving real fresh vegetables! But mostly, the lure was the breakfast pastries.

Breakfast pastries from our local supermarket - ahhhh, Sunday.

The rest of the day was spent watching Ghibli movies (Spirited Away, Ponyo), catching up on my overdue blogging, cooking dinner, eating dinner, cooking SECOND dinner, eating second dinner, and taking a Japanese-style bath.

To elaborate on two of those points - second dinner and bath. After dinner number one (gyoza and roast pork slices in rice with sauce), we had a bunch of leftover rice and leftover inspiration. And that's when we realised that we had all of the necessary ingredients and hardware to make onigiri! Onigiri are rice balls, and that's basically all that they are - balls of rice in nice shapes, sometimes with stuff in the middle. We decided to put tuna-mayo in the middle of our, so we cracked a can of tuna, added a tablespoon of mayonnaise, then got our leftover rice and put it into the plastic mold and it all just fell into place! We ended up seriously making really tasty onigiri with basically zero effort. I know what our new cheese-on-toast equivalent is!

Sam kept making the Alex Kidd noises while he was eating the onigiri.

I MADE THESE WITH MY HANDS.

Next point to elaborate on was the Japanese-style bath. While our bathroom is nicely set up to have long hot baths, the weather has been way to hot to try to take advantage of our sweet bathtub. Until tonight, dear reader! I did the full Japan bath thing - scrubbed down outside of the tub, and then soaked in the hot water-filled bathtub with bath salts for as long as I could bear. Which, being me, turned out to be about 7 minutes. It was too hot! And I had things to do. There are no photos of this, you weirdos - it was a BATH. But it was really nice, and my hair smells good now.

Food Highlight of the Day: Our homemade tuna-mayo onigiri totally made my day :)