Something I found on Facebook and thought pretty funny! :)

The other month a friend introduced me to a new Chinese restaurant that he loves, it's cheap and delicious! They have a huge menu to choose from all ranging from 100yen to Peking Duck at various prices. The restaurant is called Chinese Cafe 8, many shops located around Tokyo. 

It's not just the chocolate companies that get into Valentines, Baskin Robbins aka 31 offers a Valentines menu.

ストロベリーとチョコレートのアイスクリームに、Mixed in strawberry and chocolate ice cream キューピッドの矢&ハート型チョコとチョコチップ。 Cupids hearts and chocolate chips.

あなたの♥を射止めちゃうはず！Unconquerable love for you.

You can always chose different styles for sundaes. We chose the rabbit. You can also choose bear or panda.

Valentines just passed, everywhere you went you can see the walls, signs, advertisements for Valentines. You can read more in my past post about the Typical Japanese Valentines. 

This year I made Hershey's Caramel Truffles to give to my friends. They are easy to make, and delicious to eat, you should give them a try!

Display of chocolates

Some chocolates I received from a student of mine. Godiva is a famous chocolate brand, one that Japanese people love.

I love onigiri! (Rice balls) 

Last month I went to my friends concert at Silver Elephant in Kichijo, they are called "Laurel". I managed to get some shots during their performance! What do you think?!

The other week I went for my first time this year snowboarding. Last year I only managed to get out one time, so it has been a while since I been gliding down the mountain snowbanks. This was my 4th time snowboarding I believe, and I'm still getting my snow feet. There was two of us and we decided to drive up to Niigata at night, and stay over night and get a fresh start in the morning. We got to stay in one of my friends, companies apartment which was located right beside the ski lifts. You could look out the window and see the lifts, just exit from the 1st floor and on your way you go to snowboard. How easy is that? The apartment was amazing! Huge! It's rare to see for me in Japan, it had two large bedrooms, a huge living room, kitchen, shower, washroom...I would imagine it cost a fortune to buy. As we drove up, we were stopped by security just as we entered Niigata Prefecture to check for winter tires. When the weather is bad, they stop everyone to check, and if you have no winter tires, they send you back, or you will have to buy some, or buy chains for your tires. The weather was bad as we drove more into the mountains of Niigata, white snow everywhere. But we arrived safely at the apartment. We went up to the apartment and turned the heat on and curled up under the kotatsu.