On Thursday Tim and I went to a Christmas party with Keiko and Chie at their friends' house. In Japan every Christmas party includes a Christmas cake similar to the one shown here (although most don't have me and Tim drawn in icing on the top). Its vanilla cake with whipped cream topping and strawberries in the middle as well as strawberries on top. Our hosts were nice enough to have our picture drawn on the top, but the only picture Keiko had was from Halloween, thus Tim is wearing Harry Potter glasses, and I am not wearing my glasses. It's a pretty flattering image of us none-the-less and I felt bad they went to so much trouble to give us a nice Christmas party.
This picture is a Coke poster in our neighborhood convenience store that illustrates the Christmas cake tradition here in Japan.
It's starting to get pretty chilly here, especially at night, but it still hasn't really dipped below freezing yet, leaving some pretty flowers around town.
Anyway thanks for reading, I have been meaning to take pictures of the many Christmas lights around town, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. That will be a topic for a future post.
