A Traditional New Year's Eve...
So, the plan was to hang out at the hotel and have a somewhat quiet (although nothing's really quiet with 14 people!) New Year's Eve Party. So, we had a few drinks to celebrate with and were kicking back. Next thing we know, the Japanese hotel owners invite us in to join thier party. They offer us some Sake (japanese rice wine) and some Japanese munchies. Anyhow, we got talking with them, us in our best Japanese...we had about 43 words combined i would guess...and them in their best English, which far outdid our Japanese! A little later, it was almost midnight, they insisted that we go to the Temple with them, we tried to politely decline as we didn't want to crash thier party, but they would have none of that...so, off to the temple we went! At the temple we rang the bell and said a prayer, wished each other "Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu" (Happy New Year), drank more sake, and warmed ourselves by the bonfire. Definately a different, but good, kind of New Years...
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