My Family and I have less than a year left in Japan. I'm happy to say that this past Sunday I was able to check Chinese New Year Festival off my "TO DO" list. With the end of the tour creeping up and the length of my list......I'm going to have to make moves, but at the same time truly enjoy the moment of each event. Which I did on Sunday where we met with great friends and headed to Yokohama to watch the festivities.
First off......this place was down right crowded. Thank goodness I left the little ones home. I don't think I would have had the talent to deal with the crowd and beating my kids without anyone noticing. :) It was well worth paying a babysitter and taking part in the most important of the traditional Chinese holiday.
The company was great, food was awesome, and the entertainment was first class. Check it!
Where's Waldo? Can you find my friends Melissa and Jason?
*Hint: They are caucasian........the westerners.......two of these things don't look like the others!
To be honest, even though it was extremely crowded, I didn't get frustrated. Japanese people are just polite. Even when they bump you it's as if a feather brushing your face. Perhaps it's because of the Japanese people short stature. Anyways, check out the clip below. It was the beginning of the parade. I lied.....it was taking forever to upload. I will attempt to post the video in the near future. :(
Not only did they have the fireworks going off and the dragons dancing,
but they had gorgeous lions.....
BIG
AND 
small.
They also had gorgeous girls with porcelain faces dressed in ethnic costumes!!!!
and some.....not so attractive to look at. This guy is looking at the lady like "Bitch please......I will slap that smile off your face."
After the smell of the fireworks disappeared from our noses and the last performer scooted on by we decided to sit down and let our dawgs relax a bit. Here we are enjoying quality time with each other. The food was truly phenomenal. We stopped and got some ice cream right outside the restaurant were we had happily stuffed our faces. No one eats a meal without dessert. Definitely not this woman!!! My physique can attest to this (BTW.......my diet starts tomorrow). I just wish I would have had the blueberry ice cream like Melissa. It was heaven in my mouth when I tried hers! Yes...that good.
So, before we head back to Zama we decided to stop in Ebina to walk around a bit. Actually, it was someone's bright idea to kill time before dinner. Yes.....we are already thinking about dinner time. We like to eat. :) It actually worked out perfectly. We did that, headed back to Zama and than went to the best restaurant in this area. I so wish I could tell you what it's called, but I can't.......literally......I have no clue. :( If any of you figure it out, let me know.
There's nothing better than ending your day at this place!!!!
Eating this food!!!!
OISHII!!!!!!!
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The sign above the door on the restaurant says, "We are not a Greek restaurant!"
Let me guess...#Waldo and Waldoette both have their hands in the air?
you should have just asked the people who introduced you to such a fabulous place..it's called Sakura (just like 1,000s of other restaurants in Japan!). And just a little tip, always upload your photos and select the size "large" by clicking on the photos, it makes them big enough to see but not so big that they take over your whole page!
Keep up the good work, but stop posting photos where I'm making an AWFUL face in the background ;-)
Dad - Great inside joke!!!! You know I have to call it that now. It's Mike's fav too.
Ambertree - BINGO! So shocked someone got it so quickly. ;)
Jes - It would have been too easy to ask you. ;) I was going to make the pic smaller, but it make it more difficult to locate the two bobble heads (no offense to either....). Going to change it back!
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