Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Andy's parents come to visit

In March Andy's parents Christine and Kevin came for a holiday. They were here for 3 weeks in total, but spent some of that time in Kyoto and Nagasaki.




Christine and Andy pose with some Japanese ladies talking a Saturday afternoon stroll.


Andy and I aren't weren't able to spend anytime showing them around the city during the week, but that didn't hinder them. Everyday they came home with stories of different people who they had met. Many of these people had spent a couple of hours helping them when they had gotten lost. This left Kevin and Christine with a positive image of Japanese people.



Some of Kevin and Christine's friends. These boys/men had just had their graduation ceremony from university.




Some more of Kevin and Christine's friends. Again these young men and women had just had their graduation ceremony from university.


Christine and Kevin sadly didn't take to Japanese food as much as they did the Japanese people. They did try quite a lot Japanese food but it wasn't for them. Kevin did become quite enamoured with the raisin bread in Max Value (our local supermarket) though and was know to jog their most days to get his and our daily fix.

On one of Christine and Kevin's finally nights we went to a very expensive sushi restaurant. We didn't realise it was a sushi restaurant and had only gone there as Andy's boss had recommended it. Our Japanese friends were very impressed though!

What's not too get excited about?? Raw prawns, squid, tuna, salmon and some other fish! yum, yum!

Kevin and Christine were a bit confused by the peas!

Kevin using his very unique chopstick skills to give me the food he couldn't stomach!

A very tired Andy and Amanda showing off their master chopstick skills.


After three weeks though it was time for Christine and Kevin to go home, but hopefully they will be coming back :o)

1 comment:

wyvern said...

Are you sure that it is Kevin and not Benny Hill in the photo - some of Kevin and Christine's friends! Surely, you have this wrong it just must be Benny. He must be still alive and kicking in Japan and us Brits didn't know. His fan club will be pleased - please return Benny Hill!!