Finally Snow... alright sleet.

Well it's almost the end of winter here in Japan and finally we get a spot of snow, it's really nice to see the white stuff falling from the sky.

Not the best picture, but you get the idea that it's a seriously overcast day and it's wet...

Unfortunately, it's too warm for the snow to stick and it's just becoming a slushy mess on the ground, but nice to see it at least once this winter... it's also the coldest day of the year, with a high hovering between 2-3 degrees.

Big Steak... big view

The view from the 51st floor of the Sumitomo Building in Shinjuku...

click on the picture for a bigger view...

This was the view from Misono an awesome Teppanyaki restaurant. They claim to be the originators of Teppanyaki and from the look and smell it's clear the restaurant has been around for rather a long time... I won't dispute their claim because they serve a pretty mean steak, unfortunately at a pretty mean price.

Too bad the three of us were enjoying our red meat so much, we forgot to take photos...


Thanks to a couple of Singaporeans (Linda and her boytoy, Kok Weng) for introducing us to Misono...

Nicole gets a new Hairdo...

It took a lot of convincing from her parents that 'trimming' does not equate to 'chopping off' her hair, while realizing that she wants to grow it out, it was beginning to look more like a strangled mop then a Disney Princess' mane... Much better now.


Hmmm, after Adrian commented that she looked more like Mei, maybe there's a little truth in that, maybe mother wants daughter to look like her, I did a little research...

Last year...


and now...

Hmmmmm...