Saturday - Hippo Family Christmas and more sightseeing!

Sorry for no updates for a while - i`ve been really sick, but i`ll get to that later.

On saturday we had the Hippo Family Christmas. it was heaps of fun, and a bit hazukashii to boot haha, only cause I refuse to dance LOL!

Here is me and Bikke!

Holy moly! The food was great! All the families went to the trouble of trying to make some dishes I could eat, so consequently I had LOADS to choose from. Oishikatta! The ganmon (I thinkt hats what its called - bascially little tofu, vege and batter nuggets) were my favourite.. soo good! Grant will know what i`m talkign about (Cherie made them one time at Nombe)...

Here are some of the kids... seriously hese kids were the cutest things ever!! Can`t remember the naam of the boy on the left, but in the middle is Otoha and then Shunta o the right. Haha is was so cute, Otochan took a liking o me and was talking to me non stop through lunch, only i coudln`t understand most of what she was saying. One thing I understood was her telling me about how her class had made mochi at school (mochi are little sweets which are made from rice and have sweet beans in the middle), and she kept saying "mochi tabete!!!", which means "eat the mochi!".. she was so proud she had made them. Haha so cute!!

There there was some singing and dancing from some of the families, these guys sang the theme from Totoro. Yes, it was that cute!

Here is me with Otoha, Shunta and Sean`s host mother Lala.

After that, Aja and Waka picked us up and took us to Mojiku. I had already been with Bikke and Katsuhiko but Sean hadn`t been.

Don`t ask about the face haha...

Here we are on this famous bridge. I forgot the name gomen!

Here are some shots from the top of this 33 story building we went up. The view was amazing!!

Boys eat Genghis Khan apparently...?