On New Year's Eve this year we relaxed at home and ate nabe, drank wine and watched the countdown on TV with our good friends Peter and Yuki. This is also what we did last year and i like the tradition, though i do miss the big countdown parties downtown. Just as well, though. We were still up until 3:30am and New Year's Day was filled with driving around visiting my wife's family in Kobe and Takarazuka.
Peter and Yuki brought these delicious and incredibly rich little cakes from a shop in Ishibashi:
After dinner and dessert and the countdown, we wandered over to Ikuyama Shrine (where Ulala and i were married) and were a bit surprised to find a line of people stretching out from the shrine all the way to the street at 2:30 in the morning! I know that everyone wants to do 初詣 (hatsumoude - first shrine visit of the new year) but we thought it might be cleared out until daytime, when most people go. Almost all the people in line were young people up late, so the atmosphere as we waited was fun.
Symian is: welcoming 2011 with open arms and mind.
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Currently Listening: "Life" by Keith Richards and James Fox / Audiobook Narrated by Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley
Kanji of the Day: 良いお年を！ / よいおとしを / "yoi oh toshi oh" / "Have a good year" - said at the closing of the year; a different phrase is used at the start of the new year.
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