Sometimes the BEST weekends are the ones that aren't planned... but that happen totally spur of the moment. Last week, somewhere around Wednesday, I thought that going away for the weekend would be nice. So, what happened?? Garret and I decided where to go (Nagano), what to see (Matsumoto-jo) and went! It was great. Japan always has a surprise up its sleeve. What are the odds that there's a special festival when you go somewhere? And what are the odds that you run into people from the same prefecture where you live??

Well, there was a SOBA festival... and we ran into people from Yamagata who were selling soba. We couldn't pass that up... so we had Yamagata soba while in Nagano-ken! We also had an amazing lunch of soba today as well. Garret likes the warm soba, and I like the cold soba (today was a really warm day!)... so we had what we liked and got on the train - stuffed - and managed to each have a bit of a nap. :-)

Hope every else had a fab weekend as well...