When the cat's away!

So, last week Felix and Neve went back to the UK for their 3-week holiday with their grandparents. All was a little stressful just before the trip, exacerbated by Felix coming down with a temperature of 104 the night before he was due to fly at 7am the following morning -not the best night ever! However, he was fine in the morning, and they both trotted happily off with the BA air hostess through the priority security checks and onto the best seats on the plane. We later heard that they watched 7 movies, ate what they wanted to, had no sleep, and generally had a most enjoyable flight.

They will be spending their first week with Elaine and Glyn (Ross's folks) and their two cousins, camping the New Forrest for a week, then they will fly from Southampton to Jersey to stay for 4 days with Grandad Jim and Joan, then 4 days with Nanny Hazel, no doubt being spoilt rotten all holiday!

So in teh three weeks that they're gone, Ross and I are working full time during the day. However, it's like being young free and single again - it's amazing how much time you have! So far, we've both been running, I've been swimming, and clothes shopping, and had my hair done, we've been to a 'hanabi' (amazing fireworks) display - 10,000 fireworks, lasting for an hour! and are going to another one tomorrow (it's fireworks season here - amazing - the Japanese largely wear Yakata (summer kimonos) with wooden 'flip-flops' - it's lots of fun!

Iv'e just come back from a sales conference in an Italian Restaurant on the 52 floor of the Sumitomo building- an amazing view! The reps are lovely, and it was lots of fun, and in true Japanese style, started precisely at 6pm, and ended as planned at 8:30pm!! (very wierd concept - in my experience, sales conferences go on until everyone has fallen over, or made too much of a fool of themselves to carry on!!)

Last weekend we went to Kyoto (see next blog!), this weekend we're going to climb Mt Fuji-san (see later blog!) and the weekend after, we've booked to go to Summer Sonic, a music festival! As you can see, we're making the most of our free time!