Hakodate!

This weekend I went to my friend Rippy's house in Hokodate. It was a 5 hour bus ride. Being a guest of a Japanese woman is the best. Yet, you feel guilty the whole time. Rippy's parents drove us around everywhere and just waited n the car while we looked at stuff. One time we were in a place for over an hour and they just sat in the car.
Rippy's mother made us so much food I was stuffed all day long. Then she just stood their waiting for us to want more. Also her parents paid for everything. They had a nice house and her dad has his own business and a massage chair. Katie and I both enjoyed that.
On Saturday morning we went over to Rippy's grandmother's house. Which consisted of the grandma, uncle, aunt and cousin. Everyone sat in a circle around Katie and me. Asking questions like what do you think of Obama. And how about Tiger Woods?  And do you think the cousin is an attractive boy? Rippy's grandmother kept calling Kate Cakie and said that Rippy is stupid. I thought that it was custom to keep their thoughts to oneself. But people are always saying rude things about each other in front of their face.
Today we went to an onsen. Japan is the only place I think that you would meet your friends mother and the next day shower and bathe with her naked. Awkward....but I really like onsens they are so relaxing. Rippy made Katie and I go into thing called BaBa it was so wierd it is this thing that shocks you in the water. I was like why would you ever want to do that. It was like STEM only it hurt really bad. And I thought that electricity and water aren't suppose to mix.
Then when we left today everyone came to see us off and Obachan brought us bento and Okasan gave us a bag of goodies and ran to the convenient store when she found out we didn't have anything to drink.

Japanese Image of Santa

26 years of marrige

family portrait

Yep they sure treat you nice here.