Well the 北海道-Hokkaido adventure begins in 4 hours and will last for 5 days. We will spend a night in 東京-Tokyo because our flight back comes in pretty late.

I went to 平川幼稚園 – Hirakawa Kindergarten to preform some Santaly duties….more on this later.

Today was the last day of Christmas parties. I was waiting and planning for this day.  This year we had ginger bread shaped cookies for the kids to decorate with chocolate frosting pens. I had no use for the frosting, but I had plans for those cookies, savage plans. We had enough left over that I was able to eat three cookies, though I only took two at first. Those first two went down in a prehistoric fashion. I pulled my arms into my coat and put on my best T-Rex impression.

My mighty jaws snapped down at the first man shaped cookie taking off most of his head and part of his arm before either of them knew I was about. He had a good companion because the second man shaped cookie tried to save what was left of his friend. This was a mistake. It slowed him down. I lined up and sprung for my second attack. I missed slightly taking out most of the first cookies mid section and the hand of the second. This sent the second cookie into a panic. He could not think clearly. Sad, because he might have been able to save him self by hiding in the mountains of candy on the table. Instead he stood there staring at the empty space where his little cookie hand use be. This gave me enough time drink some much needed tea. Then came my third and final attack. There was no more movement after that. All that was left was the “clean up.”