Although it was a workday, let alone the first work day of the week, my day went pretty well. A couple calls were done including mother of course to wish me a great birthday. I thought that was very thoughtful since this is my first birthday about 5,000 miles away from where I would usually celebrate it.
The co-workers were great about my birthday, I was taken out to dinner. One thing I can hand these Japanese folks is the speed of lightning is no match for gossip in the office. I was kind of shocked and surprised about it! I of course, casually mentioned my birthday was coming about a week ago and before I knew it, the news spread around the office like wildfire! I showed up in the morning in the office like any other day and I was constantly being greeted with Happy Birthday in the best possible English they can speak. Later in the day I was told by one of the guys that we will go out and have a couple drinks, then it morphed into dinner with the boss man. I couldn't have asked for anything more it was a good group too, maybe 11 folks. The food kept coming, the picture above was just to start.
So all in all my birthday was great, to be honest I was wondering if my birthday would have actually gone by without a word but it didn't - so it smoothed out those feelings I had for missing all of you!!!
One week left before the Mt. Fuji trip......
3 comments:
Happy Birthday! That was the greatest video I have ever seen.
Thanks Rich, youtube was a great suggestion and it keeps me from buying space on the blog site which is awesome!!!!
did you get my email?
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