Neuss, Germany and Roermond, Netherland

1245 starts to the hospital in Krefeld where Mom works by car that Jenny drives. Open Day of the hospital...
0150 started to Roermond in Netherland. took 45 min.

market in Roermond, Netherland

went shopping in the market and shops in Roermond...people in the streets looked very stylish...a lot of bright colors...monotonous clothes...not exactly like the trend of fashion in japan, but almost like that....they looked very similar to the street people in Tokyo...many skirts people there unlike german streets. i loved the town!!! i even saw two families of japanese FINALLY! for the first time in germany!!! i feel a bit awkward here in germany because most people are Caucasian...very few Asian and African...I guess I miss the way it is in California and Oregon where I see maaany African and Asian in addition to Caucasian...

Bought a nederland food called "..."
the shop clerk at the shop along the highway talked to me saying "kon-nichiwa". it was not like the kind of funny "gaijin" pronunciation by English speaker...it was exactly the same pronunciation as japanese!!! and he said "arigato", too. it was for the first time that i heard people in streets speak japanese!

400 had cake, pancake and water, beer, all Dutch food at the central open cafe in the plaza.
0500 the malls and shops were closed(!) and we went on the way to back home...

strolled in the woods...it felt sooo good!

1930 back home...

2000 neuss traditional parade of the year started...5000 men in neuss walked along the streets in neuss...

2100 japanese dishes ready to serve...

1000 Japanese dinner that we cooked for them!
watermelon that Aladin, Mom´s new boyfriend, brought for us.
he is a melon man. he knows much about melon. in Turkey there is 170 kinds of melon...
1100 Jenny and Aladin went back their home
1200 moms went to bed
Phil and I talked for two hrs about marriage and divorce...how we and they think of partnership....
0200 wrote a cancellation for a nice hotel in Heidelberg...too bad we cannot visit there this time....i wonder if it is true that they say there are many japanese tourists there...only few japanese i saw in the streets in germany so far...