忘年会 - bonenkai

We hosted a 忘年会 - bonenkai - chez nous. It is when you gather with various groups of friends or co-workers to say farewell to the year. Or forget the year. Living in Japan, you'd usually have many of these to go to from all your social circles. With Tesla, I'm happy to host, but requested it to be pot-luck style, which is not a Japanese concept, but it worked well. We had tons of yummy home-made food! Beau and Garth brought an amazing array of stuff for sushi, and Beau created beautiful platters to present it all. Folks who had never been to our house came, and our neighbor Jeremy joined. I contributed nabe. Being a 6A 忘年会, we pulled up flickr photos tagged with 6A, and watched ourselves :) We had a decent but tame aftermath of wine and sake bottles. It was definitely a pleasure to 久しぶりに have a 6A gang over. p.s. It's tradition to also have a 新年会 - shinnenkai - a party to welcome the new year. Japanese love to gather and party!

Comments

[Brandy]

Then party hardy! ;)

[Mie]

Hi Brandy!
Sure will...to a certain extent. We'll be happily home a lot for the holidays, but intend to have folks visit us : )