2009 ended and 2010 began... There were some good and bad moments in our life in Japan. The pictures will show mostly the good times that we've had and of course the food that we've tried. We had our first Thanksgiving and I managed to make a turkey in the microwave sized oven, trust me it was quite hard to fit that bird into the space! However, we managed to have 21 people over in our little apartment! I absolutely loved the hubbub in the house, one of my favorite moments - people enjoying food and company, can there be anything better?
After Thanksgiving we went to a very cool snow monkey park with many onsens (natural hot springs). We managed to get a really cool hotel where we enjoyed private hot springs. We also saw famous Japanese monkeys enjoying onsens themselves, the sight was truly National Geographic moment...
Finally Christmas came and it was very nice to get together with the Lithuanian friends and share our traditional and not so traditional dishes. By then I knew that I will have a job in the spring and I tried to live up every free moment! :) Mostly I cooked and tried new things, but also saw friends as much as I could.
I think Japan is starting to grow on us... There are things we love and there are things we hate or don't like, but... the more I travel the more I have to face the truth: there is no perfect place under the sun...
More to come about the beginning of 2010 and spring of 2010