On top of that, having no oven in our house meant that making a cake was pretty difficult. We had pretty much resigned ourselves to buying a slice of convenience store cake, but come Saturday, I made the snap decision that it wouldn't be a birthday without something home cooked. I pulled together and used the rice cooker to produce a brownie cake for our girl.
It's not a classic from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book, but it was something. We ate that on the Sunday before I left, and then on the Monday, Steve came through with some more "Japanese" offerings. It was kind of like Rachel got two birthdays really.
Lots of messages and calls from back home and her Japanese school friends wrote some super lovely cards for her. Rachel was delighted to open the present of five books of the latest series she is obsessed with (Sophie was too), especially given that English books to read are in short supply here. We were on the fence about getting them, since it means we have to carry these with us while we travel Japan and then get them home again. But her excitement and crazy eyes as she opened it was worth it.
She's got seven kilos of carry on luggage allowance after all.
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