Spanking Anybody?

It's a Friday! And in case you needed another reason to be happy - consider how life would be if we were married to any of these men below:

I Smile

Sometimes when I'm busy
Sometimes when I'm alone
Sometimes when something good happens 

Sometimes for no reason at all
Sometimes when I think no-one is looking
I think of you,  and smile

Because you're my secret
Because you will always be one of my favourite memories. 

{6 Things} About Me

I love these question thingies! Tagged by my Blogging Buddy - Claudz

1) If you could choose one meal to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Roast Chicken

Being a Gemini makes me a person who is wont to change her mind often. However, I think I would choose Roasted chicken with crispy skin, roast potatoes and gravy and some pumpkin with cinnamon sugar and a side of peas.


2) If you were a sweet, what flavour would you be?

Sweet & Sour

I would be a multi-layered sweet. Outer flavour - strawberry and cream flavoured, next layer vanilla, and a sour lime coating over a strawberry bubble gum liquid centre.


3) Tell us about the weirdest person you have ever met

Dr Rashid. A married, middle aged man who took a liking to me a few years back. A very soft spoken person who began to buy me boxes of chocolate wrapped in heart gift wrap. Who made me a Weslife Love Songs CD - copied it, printed a cover and wrapped it in a bow for me.
Who randomly got hold of my cell number and sent me a very strange message on Whatsapp the other day.

5) What song should be the universal hold music song?

Apologise - One Republic ft Timerland (It's a calm song and should put the listener at ease while holding)


6) Share your favourite photo (taken by you)

This photo of the Eiffel Tower remains 1 of my favourites. The magic of Paris at night, the sparkling lights of the Eiffel Tower in 1 of the most romantic cities on earth...

City of Love

And in the spirit of Tag - I am tagging 3 new blogs I have recently discovered:

Love, Kierra Makayla
Ramblings of a Freckled Girl
Who's That Girl?

My questions to you ladies - pick any 6:

1. What chore do you absolutely hate doing? 
2. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be? 
3. If you could pick only 1 type of social media to contribute to (You have have to cancel all others) which would it be? (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Blogger (any other blogging platform) 
4. What is on your bedside table? 
5. If you had to change your first name, what would you change it to? 
6. If you were to perform in the circus, what would you do? 
7. When was the last time you had an amazing meal? 
8. What story does your family always tell about you? 

Travel Tuesday - Japan Part 2

We were fortunate enough to attend a traditional tea ceremony. The irony of this situation is that I don't drink tea at all. In my entire life I have most probably swallowed down 2 or 3 cups.

I was warned that this tea was made in the absolute traditional way. Tea Leaves are dried, ground up and made into a paste with water. More water is added and eventually you have a thick tea. A "sweet" is made from beans and egg to eat before you drink the tea.

I was sceptical, but willing to try anything and ended up being the only person to finish my tea and contemplate a second bowl! (yay me)

I found it very refreshing and it settled my stomach. We ate so much the entire trip that I wish I had had a bowl of this tea on hand at every meal.

Each meal is served with green tea - but the kind you make at home - I tasted that tea as well and did not like it.

Each temple has an entrance gate of this kind. The gold discs vary, but they are generally the crest of the reigning emperer or the person who donated the gate.

Traditionally, this gate is said to cleanse you spiritually as you walk through (physical cleansing is done by means of a water purification closer inside). You should never walk through the middle of the gate as it is believed that that is where the spirits enter. You should enter off-centre.

A VIP Feast including Sea Urchin, Salmon, raw egg, asparagus, in season mountain herbs, seafood etc

Even the Japanese employees who joined us commented on how special the meal was. 

This was the starter!! ( We were only told that once we had gorged ourselves on most of the meal)

Main course was tempura prawns and another cooked pot of meat and vegetables. 

Another lunch in town.

The raw egg is beaten with your chopsticks and the meat is then dipped into the raw egg before eating.

It sounds gross, but gives the meat a delicious creamy taste to it.

Once I got over the fact that I was eating raw egg, it was rather tasty. Beside.... if I can eat raw fish (not sushi, raw (grey) fish, I can do egg.

This was the entrance to a market. Tokyo is not known as the most expensive city in the worls. 

The flea market was affordable when it came to curios like chopsticks, but in general, the price of everything else was pricey.

A Coke from a vendor was about R42 ($4)

We visited Nikko National Park.

A National Heritage site, this park is the ideal spot for hikers.

Lovely scenery.... a bit of a steep climb, but well worth the effort. We also needed the exercise after all the eating we did!

This was the first hotel we stayed in. Not very Japanese looking, but very pretty. The 32nd floor has a restaurant with a view to die for. There was a waiting room where you could help yourself to coffee while waiting for a spot to open up.

If you missed Part 1