Family Reunion

What a crazy night to start the new-year! First we sat around and looked at the bird, then my sister made the first painting of 2003, then we played "hagghghputthh". If we would have only had a jig-saw puzzle the night would have been complete. Oh well, there's always next year.

Explanation of the photos below (for a huge photo, click this link. For a smaller photo, click the thumbnail above):

• 021231kelly_jin01 Dinner at the local Izakaya
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• 021231kelly_jin04 I forced kelyl to go back into the 7-11 to return the plastic bag she so thoughtlessly accepted, when we all had pockets.
• 021231kelly_jin05 Kelly found it hard to get over her fear of birds, having been traumatized by the devil bird of my mom.
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• 021231kelly_jin08 Jin however, will be buying a bird as soon as he gets back to Fukuoka.
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• 021231kelly_jin11 Waitin' fer a train at NishiEifuku.
• 021231kelly_jin12 Tryign to find the gate leading to Sony Plaza. Unfortunately, Sony plaza, just as everything else in Tokyo, was closed for the holiday.
• 021231kelly_jin18 so we spent our afternoon walking through Ginza over to Tsukishima where we were going to have some vomit-like monjayaki for dinner. This may be the last Tokyo skyline photo of 2002.
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• 021231kelly_jin30 This is the year of the sheep, so some evil Satan-worshiper dressed his dog up like this.
• 021231kelly_jin32 Kelly getting her photo taken with the senior public safety brigade, which gathers once a year in a little tent to drink tea and socialize... oh yeah, they also protect us from evil.
• 021231kelly_jin33 Making monjya. You can see how wonderful it is. Of course it is nice, or else we would not have traveled so far for it. In fact, this is our second time to this restaurant. We also ate here 3 years ago for New Year when Kelly came to Tokyo.
• 021231kelly_jin34 Kelly was most excited by the Yule-tide monjya.
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• 021231kelly_jin40 For the new year, I have decided to get better at stuff. It looks like Kelly needs to get better at some stuff too.
• 021231kelly_jin41 The birds seemed to like Jin. Tomoe attributes this to the fact that Jin is "quiet and doesn't move much".
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Guri, by the way, is doing much better. I just feel bad that she had to spend the whole weekend in her incubator while Awii was out having fun with all the new people.