New Years Eve

New Years in Japan is probably the most boring place to celebrate New Years. I had gone out to clubs before for New Years in Japan and it never was really all that fun. I guess cause you go with a higher expectation since it's New Years but this year I decided to just take it easy. I met up with Momo and we ordered in a pizza at her place and watched a movie.

Christmas

As I've mentioned before Christmas in Japan is more of a holiday for couples but since Momo and I did the couple thing on Christmas Eve we invited some people over for food and drinks. We got a lot of snacks, pizza, and drinks. Then we watched some American Christmas specials and played Wii.

Christmas Eve

Today was a busy day. One of my friend's moved today and since I'm his only friend with a Japanese drivers license I offered to drive the rental van to move his stuff. He had the address wrong the first time so we drove out to the general area and had to park to correct the address to go to where he actually lived. After he got the keys we pulled the car up to the door and unloaded all his stuff into his new place. He had a lot of stuff so it took two trips.

In the evening I met up with Momo and we went to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel for dinner, they had a really nice buffet style dinner with Western and Asian food. It was all really good and the atmosphere was really cool. I didn't take any pictures though cause I went straight from helping my friend move to Shinagawa to meet up with Momo who actually got me a new camera for Christmas since I'd been having some problems with my old one, but of course the new camera needed to be charged before it could be used so, yeah, no pictures.

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Out with friends

Went out with Momoko and some other friends for dinner in Shibuya today. After dinner we stopped into a game center and took some pictures in the photo booth and I noticed this English that I thought was funny.

Christmas Lights

After work I met up with Momoko in Roppongi. We got dinner at Cabana Cafe and then checked out the lights at Tokyo Midtown and Roppongi Hills.

Tokyo Cruise

Today is the official Anniversary for Momoko and I. So I surprised her with a boat cruise around Tokyo Bay. It was really cool. I think cause it was a Sunday there weren't that many people on the ship and the whole cruise lasted about 2 and a half hours. It was cool but not too cold so after we had some food we went on the deck, explored the ship, and took some pictures. It's hard to get really good pictures since the boat is in constant motion, but the view from the ship was pretty awesome. The meal plan we had was buffet style and they have a ton of really good food. After we walked around the ship we went back to our seats and had some more food till the ship started heading back towards Tokyo.

As you can see from the pictures below Momoko wasn't a very good captain so I had to take over, fight the seas, and get us safely back on course.

Then we took a picture near a Christmas Tree.

Christmas shopping

Met up with Momoko today in Shinjuku for some Christmas shopping. Shinjuku has the usual blue lights on the trees near the east exit and one of the department stores had these giant things at the entrance.