Chicken surprise

A chef-friend of Takashi's gave him a couple liters of egg whites because he had only been using the yolks recently. Takashi wanted to give him something as a surprise involving egg whites. Chicken is sometimes baked in a dome of salt held together with egg white, so they made one of those

Not content to bake a chicken in it, they decided to give him bird shaped cookies instead. However, that wouldn't be fun enough, so they decided to make some foam snakes in that would jump out when the package is opened.

Here is Takashi testing the snakes.

The gift is presented

and surprise ensues.

Later the snakes were repurposed in a gift to Matt.

Early morning, Nile visited the fish market, and it was already near closing time.




Endless varieties of fish. Imagine what it was like a few hours earlier.



Fugu is the Japanese puffer fish. This is a delicacy as sushi. Chefs need a licence to be allowed to prepare it because the fish if cut wrong it can be lethal.



After the fish market they had a traditoinal Japanese breakfast, which is really dinner since this is what the fishermen eat after a hard night of working on the boats.

See the web album for large versions of the pictures.

Visiting a Farm Outside of Fukuoka

Nile visited a farm outside of Fukuoka. More pictures in the web album

Nile in Japan

Nile arrived in Japan and is working with her dad in his restaurant. She's uploaded
some more pictures in a web album.

Flying Squirrel Pizza フライング・スクリュール・ピザ

While Aliyah was visiting Seattle, we wanted to have dinner with Sarah and Aliyah. Then, we found out Rachel was in town visiting Eric so the 6 of us went out to dinner to Flying Squirrel Pizza (stylishly in Vango). Before dinner, we went to Sarah's and played Rock Band.
友達のアリヤがシアトルに来ている間にサラと晩御飯を一緒にしたいねと話していました。ちょうどレイチェルもエリックに会いにシアトルに来てるから６人で（サラ、エリックとマットの愛用するヴァンゴーという名前のヴァンに乗って）フライング・スクリュール（ムササビという意味）ピザ屋に行きました。行く前にサラのうちでロックバンドゲームをしました。

Flying Squirrrel Pizza is a Pizza place we've been wanting to try. We really wanted to go to Delancy but it was closed for the Holidays.

フライング・スクリュールは前から行きたかったピザ屋です。本当はディランシーに行きたかったけどクリスマスからお正月まで休みでした。

We got the chanterelle mushroom special, #8 (free-range egg, organic arugula, fresh buffalo mozzarella, parmesan, red onion, sauce ) and Maggie’s (Aged mozzarella AND fresh buffalo mozzarella (buff mozz added after baking), tomatoes, fresh basil, sauce)
食べたピザは、シャンチェラル・キノコのスペシャル、8番（ルッコラ、バファロー・モッツアレッラ、パルメザン、赤玉葱、トマトソース）とマギーズ（モッツアレッラ、バファロー・モッツアレッラ（焼けてからのせてある）、トマト、バジル、ソース）。

Merry X'mas Eve クリスマス・イヴおめでとう

We went to Anita and Jim's for Xmas. We were going to go there last year but with the snow in Seattle last year, it didn't happen.
クリスマスはアニタとジムのところに行きました。去年行くはずでしたが大雪で行けませんでした。

Jim cooked us a very nice meal for us.
ジムがとってもおいしいご飯を作ってくれました。

Elmo got a "special" dinner too. We were impressed when we opened the can and found meat and veggies in different sections within the can.
エルモも特別なご飯を食べました。缶を開けたら野菜と肉と別々になっていたから感心しました。

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We were invited to two parties.
Party #1 was at Bridget and Eldon's and it was a candy making party making. We (as a group) made: lollipops, chocolate covered salted caramel, chocolate covered candy coated almonds, and (our favorite now thing to do) candy cane. It was a very educational fun party. Thank you!
パーティに2つ招待をされたので忙しい1日でした。
1つめのパーティはブリジットとエルドンのお菓子作りでした。
みんなで作ったお菓子は：ロリーポップ、塩キャラメルのチョコレート、アーモンド・キャンディーのチョコレート、と（このパーティでしっかりはまってしまった）キャンディー・ケインです。すごく勉強になった楽しいパーティでした。ありがとう。

Party #2: Eric's graduation party. Because Eric loves hockey, we all (50 people in total) went to see a game. Congratulations, Eric!

2つ目はエリックの卒業パーティでした。エリックはホッケーが大好きだから友達みんな（50人！）で見に行きました。卒業おめでとう！

(Right photo is one of the half time event of kids playing)

(右の写真はハーフ・タイムの子供のイベントです）