Leaving Niigata for Ibaraki

Today I got up early and had breakfast again. I really enjoyed staying with MSto and her family. They are a great group of people and I had a lot of fun. It was sad to think that I was leaving now. My train left at 12:20pm, and we walked the dogs before that for the last time. And then we waited for the computer internet guy to come over to her house. They were going to get a wireless connection. I helped them out to install a few of the computer parts, and then we left to go to Niigata Station. There me and MSto took a few more pictures, and then I jumped on the train.

I went by Takasaki, which is where I stayed for a few days last November. I was remembering all the old times and how that was the furthest I've been away from Tokyo. Good times, good times. The trip took about 2 hours before I arrived at Omiya station. From there I transfered to the Tohoku line to go to Koga station. Everything was actually going faster than I expected. I arrived there at Koga station about 30 minutes before I was supposed to be so I was just standing around waiting to get picked up. I was assuming that my friend would be a little early to come pick me up, but I was wrong. She was just on time.

From there we went to Matsumoto Kiyoshi, which is just a Pharmacy area. She needed to buy some stuff, and since that area is kinda countryside, it was kind of a big store. I bought some stuff as well. After that I went over to a convenient store next door because I was starving at this point. I got 3 things to eat. It was just average, but it's convenient store food, I wasn't expecting that much.

We proceeded to her house. She was driving, which was kinda weird for me. Her car was a lime green colored mitsubishi pajero kind. It fit her since she has a Rav4 in San Diego. When we got to her house I walked in and gave her mom a gift. We then lounged in the living room for a little bit. Her mom seems nice.

We went to a grocery store because she wanted to send some stuff to places that we would be visiting later on this week. We bought alcohol to send in the mail as gifts. We also sent CFka gift in the mail and asked for it to be delivered the day after we got there. We made a stop to Her mom's friend's restaurant, although at first I didn't really realize it was a restaurant. We talked for a little bit and they pondered and stared... that's what a foreigner looks like. He's not white, or blonde. Kinda weird actually, when people get the image of an American.

Then we went to dinner at a chicken place. It looked kinda rough and the food was quite average. Nothing to be excited about. Their specialty was chicken so everything was chicken. Nothing extraordinary though. We met with YYchi's friend. She seemed ok, but not on the talkative side. The feeling and moment was awkward. But we talked a very little.
From that point we went back to her house and she needed to finish up her final paper for her online class. We worked on it ALL night. Which means we didn't sleep before we went on a long trip. That wasn't good. Although I kept on dozing and taking power naps along the way. She didn't, but was working on the paper. I was amazed and shocked that she didn't get that tired. I was very curious to see what her sister looked like. They don't look alike at all. Anyways, the next morning came faster than we knew it.