Christmas in Japan has been interesting. A few days before Christmas Matt and I went to a big mall in Canal City to do some shopping (Matt's favorite!), which is about a 15 minute subway ride. It's kind of weird because the malls are all decorated and packed with people but most of them don't actually celebrate Christmas, so I'm not really sure what they are all doing there. Every time I have been to this mall there is some type of entertainment going on in the center part and this day there happened to be a Japanese gospel group. They were singing gospel songs and Christmas songs all in English, which is funny because we were probably the only people there that understood, but tons of people were watching. Between songs they were speaking Japanese and it was encouraging to see that the reason for Christmas was being acknowledged. Before we left Matt stopped at Cold Stone for the smallest and most expensive "love it" size ice cream ever, about $7! However, it was really entertaining listening to them sing. They seemed to really love their job.
Christmas Eve we met some friends at Ohori Park to look at Christmas lights. It's a big park with a pond in the center. The walking path around it is just over a mile, so I'm sure Jean and Terry would like it! The lights were pretty, but compared to light shows in the States kind of lame.
Christmas day our friend Nathan came over with two of his friends visiting from Shanghai, China and another teacher friend, Kevin. Everybody brought stuff to make sushi and we took turns making different kinds of rolls. There was octopus, eel, salmon, shrimp, crab and other vegetables. I'm going to be honest Matt and I don' t eat much of that. Octopus is just a little to creepy for me, but it was a lot of fun. After dinner we played the game, "Things" . . . soooo funny! This will definitely be a Christmas we remember . . . our first one as a married couple in Fukuoka, Japan!
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