Happy Merry Christmas

Although we will be in the States for the Christmas holiday, we have been getting some questions about Christmas in Japan. Although Japan is a Buddhist country by majority, you can't stop our Far East friends from celebrating the bright lights of the holidays. I mean, it just gives them more opportunity to put up tacky electric things, so the holiday is right up their alley!

As well, I learned that Christmas Eve is pretty much like our equivalent of Valentine's Day; it is a big day for dating and smoochie smoochies. So I suppose that means - equally - there are plenty of single gals sitting at home with their parents, eating the Japanese equivalent of Chunky Monkey while watching Bridget Jones with subtitles in kanji. Except their butts don't get bigger, unlike the rest of the female human race who indulges in pints of ice cream.

Oh yeah, and you can't get escape the George Michael holiday tune "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..." during this season in Japan. Yep. Pretty much every store has the song on some sort of loop. Yeah. Why? I don't know, but I do know when you aren't listening to it in a store, you are humming it or replaying it in your end the other 22 hours of your day.

Well we are off to trek to the States to meet Saint Nick on the other side of the Pacific Pond. Hope everyone has a "Happy Merry Christmas!"