We’re just wrapping up our long New Year’s holiday around here. Today was our last day, and tomorrow I have to go back to work. Kuniko has tomorrow off, though, so she can relax a little bit longer.
The last few days were spent mainly over at the Kageyama’s place enjoying some traditional New Year’s food (osechiryouri). I think I can speak for both of us when I say that I ate way too much. The food was delicious, and there was even some beef in there to enjoy as well.
New Year’s Eve was fun because we went over to Komori sensei’s house for a soba party. His son was there, along with some of his wife’s co-workers. We had a good time with them, and ate lots of soba and lots of nabe.
After that we made an after-midnight trip to Mikuriya shrine to do the first (and in my case, the only) prayer of the new year. We pulled some lucky fortunes, and so we both should have a great year ahead of us.
Yesterday Kuniko and her sister went shopping, so I stayed at the Kageyama house and hung out with her parents. It went pretty well – considering the language barrier. Kuniko’s dad and I worked on a laptop that he wanted to get cleaned up, and Kuniko’s mom served up a sushi lunch and takoyaki for dinner. Kuniko came back in the evening with a good haul from shopping, and then we came on back home at a reasonable time.
Today we almost went hiking, but the wind is just howling outside, so we decided to postpone. Instead we’re staying in and enjoying the last relaxing day before work starts up again.
