Sayonara Heather and Kevin

Last night many of our friends held a farewell tabe/nomihodai on our behalf at the Houfbrau Haus. Later we headed down the street to the IceMan where we hit it pretty hard until about 6am. It was a fantastic night and we cant thank all of you enough for making it a such a memorable evening. Looking at the photos it is really now sinking in how much we will really miss you all!
(special thanks to Yumiko for putting it all together)
More Pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8953511@N05/sets/72157619028283114/

McHotdog and Mega Sausage

200 percent tasty.
2 tempting treats recently available on the breakfast menu.
Nope, havent braved this one.

Graphics and Friends

Monday all of our friends from Graphics had dinner on our behalf at ChikiChiki which is owned by one of the members from Heathers golf group . It was excellent time, with the owner making us some excellent dishes including a not on the menu Sushi Cake, very cool indeed. Of course after dinner we found time for way to many rounds of darts(for a work night) at FuruSato.
More pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8953511@N05/sets/72157619027932226/

Dinner with the Kawai's

Saturday night we went to dinner with Heathers Sensei and her husband. Later we threw some darts at FuruSato. Like all of the friends we have made in Japan, the Kawais will be missed.

Sapporo Beer Factory Darts Tournament at Nasu

This weekend Heather, Myself and a few friends hit another darts tournament. This time it was at the Sapporo beer factory in Nasu. The beer factory is a really nice place, housing of course the beer factory and a large beer hall restaraunt that have visited before and of course an excellent place to hold a darts tournament. This time we fared a little better in the darts actually winning a few games and even a match in our low level division. Though we didn't make it to the 2nd round we had a great time and of course tossed back quite a few cold, very fresh Sapporo beers.

Sendai and Matsushima 仙台市と松島

The last couple of days we traveled to nearby Miyagi Prefecture and visited the City of Sendai and nearby Matsushima. Matsushima is a small bay fishing town famous for oysters and some 260 tiny islands and is considered the 3rd best scenic view in Japan. Sendai itself is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. I was thinking it would be similar to Utsunomiya but it was much larger with over a million people and a whole lot cleaner with a very nice downtown area. Gyu-Ton or beef tongue(and beef in general) is the regions famous food dish and is served in many ways. We had it a few times and must say it was pretty good. Of course we tried several of the advertised gaijin friendly bars and nightspots and we found a few good dart bars close to our hotel where we spent the evenings. We also found a very authentic Mexican restaurant (well Mexican American anyway) called Casa DelSol. It was great as good Mexican food is definitely a rarity in this country.
Anyhow we would recommend both Matsushima and Sendai for a visit and would say you could definitely cover them with a day trip or single overnight visit. We drove it but both places are easily accessed by the Shinkansen and local train system. There are more pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8953511@N05/sets/72157617495854121/