By sheer luck I had the day off ( a Thursday.) Amity held a Training session on the Sunday after Eric's birthday, so I got a weekday off to make up for it. Unfortunately, Eric and I failed to do anything fun or exciting on his birthday. I don't know if there were sleeping pills in the food we ate the night before or if it was the dreary weather that effected us, but we were like zombies on his actual big day. We had planned to go shopping, and then take the train into Tokyo to have dinner at a super delicious French restaurant called Cogito. As the day wore on we bounced from store to store not finding any of the things we were searching for. Suddenly the prospect of riding 90 minutes into Tokyo and then 90 minutes back for 1 dinner seemed silly!
By 2pm we admitted defeat, and cancelled our reservation. We found a random German deli not far from my house, bought some salami, bread, cheese and wine, and chilled out at my little flat. We managed to leave the house one more time for dinner. However, this too was a colossal failure. We went to a Chinese Buffet that I went to my first week in Yamato. I remembered it being pretty good. After our dinner there though, I decided that I must've just been exceedingly hungry when I went the first time, because it wasn't that great. All in all it was a mediocre dinner to go with a mediocre day.
We made up for the dismal celebration 2 days later. When I got off work on Saturday night, I went straight into Tokyo to meet Eric. We finally had a lovely dinner at Cogito, and even managed to snag a hotel room in the the cool neighborhood of Asakusa. It was perfect because we didn't have to ride 90 minutes home, AND because I had Training the following morning (a Sunday!) in Tokyo. Staying there overnight significantly cut down the travel time.
It was 2 days late, but we managed to celebrate Eric's birthday in style.
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