Merry Christmas to all of you out there from Japan!! It was amazing to be on a plane for less than two hours and arrive here...
We are staying with friends - one of whom S. used to teach with back in the states. He now teaches history and Japanese on a military base outside of Tokyo. We arrived on Sunday morning, and then went on a three day ski trip with them...which with an almost three year old means that we rented all sorts of equipment, dressed in twenty layers, stuffed our pockets with all manner of outer wear, took two vans, got skis on, shuffled over to the baby slopes, put outerwear on, took a tentative slide down said baby slope, and then decided that was enough skiing and what the three year old really wanted to do was try that fun skateboarding thing that everyone else was doing but if he wasn't old enough to do that, he would just build some pins and a bowling ball out of snow and do some snow bowling. S. went skiing though and assures me that the view from the top was absolutely breathtaking.
We drove home today, Christmas eve, and went out for dinner. KFC pulled a brilliant marketing stunt where they convinced the Japanese that it is an American custom to have fried chicken for Christmas. Various restaurants now serve fried chicken as a Christmas special, and you can pre-order fried chickens at KFC. Of course then for dinner, I had the Merry Christmas fried chicken special. Hope that all of you out there are having as lovely a meal as we were able to have - and having a happy, healthy holiday. Merry Christmas from all of us!!
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