6-Day Party!!!

We are currently in a 6-day weekend (yes, we can just say we have a week off from school, but 6-day weekend sounds much better!) due to a public holiday and testing at our school for the junior high students who want to attend To- O Gijuku next year. Luckily, the winter festival fell at exactly the same time as our holiday, so we got to spend Thursday night with friends marveling at all the amazing snow sculptures, eating yummy festival food, and riding down a snow-slide for kids!

Since we had a whole 6 days off, we thought we had better do something even more special, so we headed to Tokyo on the night bus.

On Saturday we spent our final day in Tokyo in our favorite place, Minato Mirai in Yokohama, with Saori. We did some random shopping and then headed to our special place- TGIFriday's to gorge ourselves! You see not only is this our special place where we always eat together when we come to Tokyo, but it was also a special occasion this time. Last April, the day after we returned from visiting America, we went on a morning run because we felt so gross from all the traveling, and upon our run, we happened to come across a bill laying on the ground! This wasn't just ANY bill, it was a 10000 yen bill (equivalent to a $100 bill)!!!! Well, after much deliberation and talking with friends and family, we decided to keep the bill and spend it on something special during our last year in Japan. And what better way to spend it than with one of our closest friends at our favorite restaurant!

Needless to say, by the end of the full-course meal- appetizers, burgers and fries, and 3 desserts- we were too stuffed to even talk! Eventually we made it back to the train station to head to our hotel where we rested up for the following day's adventure- Tokyo Disneyland!

We met two of our old students, Rei & Mizuho, at Disneyland bright and early and had a fun-filled day of rides, attractions, chatting, and delicious food! Some of our favorite rides and attractions were Big Thunder Mountain (an awesome roller coaster which was so good we had to ride it twice), Winnie the Pooh Honey Hunt, a just-opened attraction Mickey's Philhar-magic, and both the day and night parades!

We finished the night exhausted, yet greatly satisfied! It was nice to get to spend time with some of our old-students/friends as this will be one of the last times we'll get to see some of them!