Thanksgiving Dinner, and then some...

On Tuesday night, Jeff and I trained to Maebashi for some Thanksgiving grub with 50 something other JETs. Oh yes, we do miss our turkey. Maybe it was the thought of Thanksgiving dinner that made us become the anti-social jerks we were that night, since we were the rudest people EVER. We actually made someone leave our table by ignoring them and not even introducing ourselves. We talked about it afterwards and agreed that we are usually the "nice" people, starting conversations with the new people and such. What happened to us that night? We don't know. However, it all worked out in the end b/c we had a great table with great company.

The food was amazing. We had turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, mash potatoes, stuffing, salad, veggies, rolls, bread pudding, and pumpkin pie. Mmm mmm! My favorite were the cranberry sauce and the bread pudding. Oishiiyo! The pumpkin pie tasted more like sweet potato pie but it was still good, in a Japanesey sorta way...if that even makes any sense. Anyway, it was well worth the 3500 yen we paid! Let's Thanksgiving Dinner-ing more often!

Jeff and I were way too tired to join the others for karaoke so we, along with Kristine, burned off our calories (or 1/100th of it) by walking to the station. I'm glad we walked. I fell into a food coma as soon as I got home.

The next day, Jeff, Ann, and I trained to Ashikaga to do some omiyage (souvenir) shopping. Many of the shops were closed so we were unsuccessful in our purchases. So where did we go instead?? AEON, of course. I seriously don't know what I would do w/o AEON. It's the best thing to happen to Ota since...um...since...um...trains??

Jeff and I decided we had a craving for McDonald's so we each ordered a meal and chicken mcnuggets. Bad idea. Living in this country really makes you sensitive to the greasy-as food that is served back home. We felt so gross afterwards. Anyway, we decided to watch Elizabethtown. For what reason? Mainly Orlando Bloom and Cameron Crowe since we both hate Kirsten Dunst. Hmm...hate seems so harsh. Okay, so we definitely dislike her...to an extreme. Her facial expressions really bug me and she really isn't that great of an actress, ESPECIALLY in this movie, so yeah. If I were Ebert, I'd give this movie a "thumbs down." It's trying to be too many things it isn't. Don't waste your $.

Thought of the day:

Only in Japan. This is old news but I never posted about it. The cop that almost gave me a bike ticket showed up at my door a couple of weeks ago. At first I didn't realize it was him, but I looked closer and thank goodness I remembered. I quickly had to play dumb again and pretend I didn't understand anything, not that I understand much to begin with. So yeah, apparently, he was making his rounds just to take down everyone's info and give us a number to call in case anything happens...like if your bike mysteriously leaves the train station and is parked outside your apt?? Hmm...I wonder.