Heading to Maebashi
Tomorrow we are going to the city of Maebashi to see Ayako’s family, and to visit with some friends there. We will eat, drink, and be merry 
New Years Eve we will spend with her parents and brother and will probably eat some special soba noodles. These special noodles are eaten at midnight, it is as if the noodles were strings pulling in the new year.
On New Years Day we will eat something called osechi - which I’ll share a photo of it on Friday. I’m sure we will also eat omochi - which is a rice cake that becomes a chewy tasteless thing when soaked in warm water (the way it is eaten).
Photos to come.
