it’s not often that we get to take little trips together like this. and i’m not even talking about trips that people are used to, like say, a week or so, that’s kinda impossible with his job, just little 2-day trips. talk about ironic, since i have a job that gives me an obscene amount of free time, and a 2 consecutive off days like this is a luxury to him. so, we were kinda excited for this one, even though both of us aren’t exactly big fans of tokyo. we had ghibli and cirque du soliel planned, and disney if we still had the energy or time the next day. and i planned for us to take the bus back at 2:40 from tokyo so he could have ample time to rest up for his work week ahead.

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back in the hotel on the first night, i asked him what he enjoyed the most that day. “めいと子猫バス”, he said. it is the cutest thing ever. if you’ve watched my neighbor totoro before, you probably would know the neko bus. in this short film we got to watch in studio ghibli, the baby cat bus makes his appearance and he has the grinniest grin.  and furry balls too!

when i asked about the opposite, he said it was how we nearly couldn’t get onto the bus in the morning. yes, i made a huge blooper with my bus tickets reservation and it would have cost us our trip to tokyo, or at least totally screwed the schedule up.

and that sweetest guy never made a peep about it before i asked.

the most stressful part of the day for me was having to find a Family Mart in tokyo to pay for the return bus tickets right before our cirque du soliel show. it was obviously my fault, but as my stress level built up walking aimlessly around looking for a convenience store, he held my hand, and told me everything was gonna be alright. that’s why i love this guy, and that’s why till this day, we never actually did have a quarrel.

and when we finally found the store, paid for our reservation and was making our way back, he pointed out the smiling moon in the sky to me.

we made it back to aizu the next day and the same smiling moon was featured on tv. apparently, it’s a pretty rare phenemon and the last time it occurred was about 2 1/2 years ago.

「きっといいことがあるよ」 he said, smiling at me.

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