Hi, S.S.T! Yes, Super-Saturday-Team! Don't really know what that's suppose to mean.....I guess I'm  running out of ideas how to start this blog. What I meant to say was: Thanks for coming Isabella, Cassandra, Kelly and Jamie! You read correctly - four names! 
And welcome back to the "world of the living", Cassandra! Nice to have you back. Cassandra had been busy on business trips (see the connection - "busy", and "business trip"?), and eventually she got hospitalized for no apparent reason, so she could enjoy a boring night in hospital. Kelly brought in the good news that her son in law finally got a job in his pocket, congratulations! Isabella introduced her newly opened Internet Shop, http://nila.shop-pro.jp/ , you must check it out! If you're lucky, you might even land a good discount deal! Jamie told us about a TV program she had watched this morning going by the name of "旅サラダ" or something like that where the reporter visited Germany, and of course the famous "Neuschwanstein" castle. For unknown reasons, however, she couldn't enter. By the way, it seems like most ladies today didn't know that the Disney-Castle's design is taken from this German tourist attraction - did you know, dear readers? I thought that it was quite a well-known fact......anyway, let's double check:


     




 Can you tell the difference?

I personally prefer more mysterious castles - grey stone structures, dark, moist, possibly with some skeletons (or at least some bones) lying around in some corner.....
In the German language, we differentiate between beautiful, fairytale-type castles - we call them "Schloss" (シュロス), and the mysterious, ghost-haunted types "Burg" (ブルグ). I checked for English, but I could only find "castle" for both types.

We enjoyed some "random thoughts for people our age" (how old really is that?):



And did some "overtime" (again) discussing both thoughts mentioned on the paper. I believe most of us could identify with both of them.

Our cake turned out a little "和風" today - the popular combination of sweet potato & cake:

 

Have a great weekend - I won't, 'cause I  just learned that our bike touring tomorrow has been canceled due to 70% rain possibility........sniff sniff

The "Master"