Ok, that seems to have reset the thing. Not sure what happened. But I think lock applies nicely there to the caps lock feature. Anyway, don't start reading here. Start below and then come back up.

Eventually Yamashita asked if I was filled up enough and wanted to take a walk to the local shrine. I said that would be fine and he, his 8 year old and I set out. His son once again decided run everywhere and we walked the narrow street about 15 minutes to the shrine.
At the shrine we did the small prayer, took a piece of paper with a fortune on it, read it, tied it to some string outside like you are supposed to do, and then I was able to capture his son for a brief time so that Yamashita could snap a picture of us. Of course, Yamashita told me a little about the history of the shrine and the guy who built it and all that. We then walked back to his place where he brought out a bottle of shochu.
At this point I still thought I was spending the night and was pacing myself on the drinking. His father kept trying to get me to go faster but I would not as I figured I still had many hours left to stay awake. We sat around and talked and got to know each other and then Yamashita mentioned that at 5pm there would be some ex-students of his coming over and that he would need to take me home soon. He was very apologetic about it but after the initial confusion wore off I didn't think it was any big deal. I am getting quite used to functioning on very little concrete information over here and am nearly always ready to change my plans on a moment's notice.
So about a half hour later his wife, his younger son, he and I climbed into the mini-van (his wife did the driving) and they dropped me off at my place. Yamashita had drawn out a map for me earlier in the day so that I can "come over anytime you like," and his wife added "and please bring Amy next time."
Nice people.