Our Thanksgiving Feast
It was good.
...and sukiyaki is very good.
Geigi Festival
The Geisha invited me to play a game with them
...and to take a picture
I won the game :)
The hotel had ducks in front of it...I liked that.
They don't really celebrate Christmas the same way here, but at least they decorate for it.
This is the time of year when Mt. Fuji is the best to see (this is the view from my apartment).Well, I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving and felt very blessed. I certainly do, but it was a very different type of Thanksgiving that's for sure. I had work on that day obviously, but my co-workers and I (in trying to not lose the holiday completely) went out to a restaurant for dinner. There really is not much turkey here, so we had fried chicken, yakisoba and sukiyaki. It was a very good meal anyway and I am very thankful for everything that God has given to me. I am so very blessed really.
Last weekend, I got to attend a Geigi Festival in Izunagaoka...for free. Geigi are Geisha that are specially trained in dancing, music, etc. I found out that there are only two registered schools for bringing up Geisha in Japan and one of them is in Izunagaoka. The performances were beautiful and I really enjoyed watching them dance and play music. After the dancing was over though, they then started inviting guests from the audience to play different games with them. I was asked to play one of the games (I'm not sure what it was called). Thankfully, Ai was there to translate and tell me the rules on how to play. I won :) . They gave me two tickets to a marine animal park that is actually here in Numazu (I had no idea about there being such a place...and neither did any of my co-workers for that matter). After the games we were then all invited to dance with the Geisha in a circle. There was such a huge crowd that there had to be two circles though. It was really, really fun. After that the festival was over and Ai and I went to eat an amazingly good lunch still inside the hotel. When lunch was done we then decided to head to Mishima and go shopping at Sun to Moon...which is a good size mall. I bought some slippers for work, since it's getting much too chilly lately. So I hope that you are all staying well and enjoying this holiday season. Merry Christmas!
Last weekend, I got to attend a Geigi Festival in Izunagaoka...for free. Geigi are Geisha that are specially trained in dancing, music, etc. I found out that there are only two registered schools for bringing up Geisha in Japan and one of them is in Izunagaoka. The performances were beautiful and I really enjoyed watching them dance and play music. After the dancing was over though, they then started inviting guests from the audience to play different games with them. I was asked to play one of the games (I'm not sure what it was called). Thankfully, Ai was there to translate and tell me the rules on how to play. I won :) . They gave me two tickets to a marine animal park that is actually here in Numazu (I had no idea about there being such a place...and neither did any of my co-workers for that matter). After the games we were then all invited to dance with the Geisha in a circle. There was such a huge crowd that there had to be two circles though. It was really, really fun. After that the festival was over and Ai and I went to eat an amazingly good lunch still inside the hotel. When lunch was done we then decided to head to Mishima and go shopping at Sun to Moon...which is a good size mall. I bought some slippers for work, since it's getting much too chilly lately. So I hope that you are all staying well and enjoying this holiday season. Merry Christmas!
