🎶 Hope you are having a nice Monday!
New Years Osechi Tradition
“Osechi Ryori” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは！How’s it going?
Today we started off the new year in typical Japanese fashion – we feasted on Osechi 🍥 and drank saké 🍶 all day while watching Japanese new years specials on TV. 📺😆
Did you know that each different food in osechi-ryōri represents some kind of good fortune? I don’t know all of the meanings, but if you are curious, you can check out the Wikipedia osechi page. They list some of the most common foods.
Mariko prepares our osechi, and I look forward to eating it every year. It takes a couple days but it’s a worthwhile tradition. The food is delicious, beautiful, and it’s a great way to start the new year. 🎊
I hope you had a great day!
おやすみなさい！
– B 
Travel Hopupu
Follow my brother’s Tumblr, Travel Hopupu, why don’t you? 😄❤️
Goodbye 2016
“Shingo Reena at 67th Kouhaku” 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
I’m posting this as we watch the 67th Kouhaku 🎵 and countdown to the New Year. So far it’s a good show and I really enjoyed Shingo Reena‘s performance! She always does well, and with so much coolness. This year she was dressed in a black kimono reminiscent of a funeral wear. It was pretty awesome.
Earlier tonight we met some friends at their restaurant and enjoyed some amazing food, including way too much sushi. 🍣 But it was so good I couldn’t resist!
“New Year’s Sushi” Austin, 2016
I wanted to share one achievement that I accomplished this year – blogging each day. I’m not sure why I wanted to do it, but after a month or so, it just became a habit. I don’t put too much thought into each post – most of my daily posts are written before I go to bed and are just little recaps of my day. I admit that there were a few nights that I didn’t finish a post, but doubled up the next day. Mainly because I was busy, or on a cruise, or drank too much. 😜 But who cares, right? I enjoy this part of my daily life. It’s fun, and I think that expressing myself in written (typed) words keeps my brain a little bit sharper. It’s like mental exercise. 💪
Well, I hope you had a nice day! And HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉
おやすみなさい！
– B
Taking a Drone on Honeymoon – 400 Days Around the World
The best drone video I’ve seen so far! ❤️
