Saturday (29th) was Luke and Yoko's Wedding. Now you are thinking "Stuart said they were already married", well that is true. In the UK the legal marrage and the marrage "event" take place on the same day. In Japan you go to the city hall and fill out a form it get married and then have your wedding event at another time - spring or autumn when the scenary is pretty or summer when the weather is guranteed to be sunny. Emi and I attended the 2nd party for family, friends and colleagues - the main marrage part (at a shinto shrine) and the first party were attended by family and close friends only.
The 2nd party was held at a place called MacArthers Garage. General MacArther was general of the US army and put in charge of Japan post WW2 before handing the country back to Japanese rule. This place has an old American car inside, supposedly his original car.
First thing I notice when we went inside was that the staff were dressed in rabbit and duck body suits, looked very amusing. Anyway at the end of the event I saw one hung up in the corner and could resist but put it on. Needless to say the tipsy Japanese were rolling around with laughter and I had quite a few pictures of me making rabbit poses.
After this is was on to a bar where a small group of us were to be found drinking until about 2:30am.
Sunday morning and I woke up with a massive hangover despite not feeling drunk the night before. I think I am getting old. The day was pretty uneventful as both Emi and I were feeling very tired so nothing really to report.
Monday Emi, Luke, Faith (Luke's sister), Paul (her boyfriend) and I went snowboarding in a place called Fujimi Panorama - Fujimi meaning "view of Fuji" as in Mt.Fuji. Well the weather wasn't clear enough to see Fuji but the views of the Japanese "Alps" were fantastic. The resort was very quiet as this was the last week of the season so few people for me to crash into. It was a little slushy in place but otherwise the runs were good. I was really struggling to start with, I thing the board setting were different to my previous times - don't laugh, I've been told it makes a massive difference.
BTW sorry about the poor spelling over the last two or three posts, I'm very lazy!
The 2nd party was held at a place called MacArthers Garage. General MacArther was general of the US army and put in charge of Japan post WW2 before handing the country back to Japanese rule. This place has an old American car inside, supposedly his original car.
First thing I notice when we went inside was that the staff were dressed in rabbit and duck body suits, looked very amusing. Anyway at the end of the event I saw one hung up in the corner and could resist but put it on. Needless to say the tipsy Japanese were rolling around with laughter and I had quite a few pictures of me making rabbit poses.After this is was on to a bar where a small group of us were to be found drinking until about 2:30am.
Sunday morning and I woke up with a massive hangover despite not feeling drunk the night before. I think I am getting old. The day was pretty uneventful as both Emi and I were feeling very tired so nothing really to report.
Monday Emi, Luke, Faith (Luke's sister), Paul (her boyfriend) and I went snowboarding in a place called Fujimi Panorama - Fujimi meaning "view of Fuji" as in Mt.Fuji. Well the weather wasn't clear enough to see Fuji but the views of the Japanese "Alps" were fantastic. The resort was very quiet as this was the last week of the season so few people for me to crash into. It was a little slushy in place but otherwise the runs were good. I was really struggling to start with, I thing the board setting were different to my previous times - don't laugh, I've been told it makes a massive difference.
BTW sorry about the poor spelling over the last two or three posts, I'm very lazy!
3 comments:
And the photos of the rabbit suit are where?
Thinking of becoming a playboy playmate in the bunny suit Stu?
Rather not see photos of that...
When I work out how to post pictures on this site I'll post some. Watch this space!
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