Hola!
Well my muppets, I’m back in my cozy little hobbit hole. The last few days have been very busy. I got back to my cozy hobbit hole on Saturday, then promptly left it for a taco night extravaganza with excellent folk and didn’t get back til 2am Sunday morning.
Then yesterday the Seijinshiki Hoop-la began. You see, my poor befuddled muppets, in Japan they do not have a Formal, they do not have an 18th, they do not have a 21st, they have a Hatachi (20th), and with it a Seijinshiki (or ‘Coming of Age’ ceremony) in January where all the people in the area who are turning 20 that year don fancy attire (gorgeous kimono’s in the case of the girls) and go to an epic ceremony, and there are celebratory dinners galore.
So I was invited to join in the fun and giggles with the Yukiho Kodama and her family, seeing as how I was in Sendai. They don’t live here anymore (they live in Saitama), but Yuki wanted to go to the Sendai ceremony to be with her school friends.
Sunday night we went to the Sendai Royal Park Hotel (vair schmick) and ate Chinese food that cost more than pretty much everything I own, and then today we were back there again taking photos of Yuki in her kimono, and various combination of us all. Here’s a sample.
- I am out side. Without a coat. It is cold.
(Photos – 1st: the room where we ate our expensive food. 2nd: L-R Chieko, Hinano, Yukiho, and Jiro Kodama. 3rd: with Yuki and a bunch of her friends. 4th: me being cold.)
