The Last Supper

We got a call from Christine saying that there was one last get-together with old friends before she took off the next day. We met up with her and Keiji and Pete at the station:
Keiji found us a nice, quiet Okinawan restaurant:
He ordered lots of food for us including fresh fish:
Rie, Keisuke and their son, Ryotaro also met up with us later. It was our first time to see Ryotaro who is a year and 4 months old now. We found out that they will be moving to Yokohama soon so it might be awhile again before we see them next:
We got a nice shot of us together (none of us doing Big Arms...Eddie Izzard joke):
Today is called Setsubun in Japan (see last year's post about this here). Here's us throwing beans and shouting Oni-wa-soto (Devils out!):
I guess by the time of this writing, Christine is in the air on her way to Italy. Bon voyage!

More send-offs

There was a small party at Jack's last Friday so that people could say goodbye to Christine before she leaves for Africa. Jack made lots of delicious Mexican food for us:
And there was some yummy desserts as well:
Here are a couple of nice photos of Christine with people at the party:

Later on, we had a fun game of Balderdash which went from silly to serious very quickly:
It was nice to see Christine again before she leaves and get to see a few friends that we haven't seen for awhile.
Ayako also went to see a friend of ours who will be moving to Korea soon. Sad to see good friends leaving these days.