Surprise party for Yoko

Friday night and what better way to spend the evening after a long week's work (for everyone else, not me), but to have a birthday party. Yoko had no idea that we were all waiting for her arrival at dinner and everyone at work did a great job in keeping it a secret. We went to a traditional Japanese seating restaurant where you had to take off your shoes and then sit around the table indian style. We had a set course of about 11 items (in small portions) and it was all you can drink!!! We started with a sweet potato, fried tofu, jelly fish.

Next it was all the veggies in this soup pot.

You also use this same pot to cook one of our next courses, the fish.

Of course we had to KOMPAI many times in honor of Yoko. Yoko's neighbor had the right idea, forget the glass and go for it all.


Happy Birthday singing time with cake!


And course, we had to go to karaoke to finish off the night. This was a good karaoke night as everyone sang good songs






A final happy birthday to the birthday girl. We hope you had a good time.


On the way home, I got hungry after all the beer I had been drinking. I sure wished there was a Whataburger around, so I could go get a jr. cheeseburger and then pass out. No such luck, rats and eating sushi after a night of beer just doesn't sound the same as a cheeseburger.