HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu.
I hope you all have a wonderful 2012.

For the Christmas/ New Year Holiday, my family travelled to Fort Worth and Dallas.  First, we visited my college roomate in Fort Worth, and together we watched our university (Baylor University) beat Washington at the Alamo Bowl.  What an exciting high scoring game!  While in Ft. Worth, we also visited the Stockyards, an old cowboy town.

After that, we went to Dallas to visit my friend, who used to live with me in Fukuoka!  Together we celebrated New Year's Eve at a country western dance hall called Red River.  Before that, we ate at a really good Japanese restaurant in Dallas called Mr. Sushi.  The name sounds kind of so-so perhaps, but the staff and chefs were Japanese, and the food was excellent.  They even had OSECHI RYOURI for the occasion.  Here's the website:  http://mrsushidallas.com/  Try it if you go to Dallas.  We loved it!!