Snowy day

Well, I guess we did get another day of snow this winter. On Sunday, it snowing on and off during the day. Since it was cloudy all day, some of the snow even stayed on the ground:
And when we woke up on Monday morning, there was quite a bit of snow (for Hamamatsu) on the ground:
On Sunday night, Ayako made a yuki daruma (Japanese snowman - made with 2 spheres):
By the morning, he had lost his eyes, but had gained some snow at the base:
Ayako and I enjoyed going for a morning walk in the snow. It felt like a Canadian snowy day in December.

Here are some more pics from the house:

Happy Birthday to me

I was lucky that some friends still on their new year's holidays, so they could come visit out house and help celebrate my birthday:
Ayako made some delicious dishes and our friends from Toyohashi and Iwata had fun getting to know each other:

Of course, there was also a delicious cake that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was called ultimate lemon cake and it definitely had a super lemon taste:
Here we all are (minus Eiki taking the photo) before the Toyohashi crew had to head home:
It was a fabulous birthday indeed.