Henington Hiroshima Christmas Extravaganza

As Christmas Day was Monday we decided to have our Christmas Dinner on Christmas eve so we could have a few friends over and feed them wine box wine- an old Henington tradition. As there was six of us we embarked on a rather nervous process of trying to cook a 4 legged chicken with all the vegetables to match.
It was quite Chaotic but we even managed to squeeze in starters, homemade stuffing and homemade cheesecake as well- so far no reports of any food poisoning although Kiyoshi did seem to spend a long time in the bathroom before he left- too much box wine we think- as you can see from the photos- he's the one pulling all the face...I imagine translating at Mazda the next day was fun!

Whilst putting the presents on display Aiko discovered that The Henington Seniors has also sent a Christmas cracker kit so it was a full on hat wearing dinner..that disintegrated into a wine fuelled Jenga session that The Heningtons emerged from with a Played 3 lost 0 recorde- all that practice is paying dividends...
















The next day- Up early as usual by the Archie Alarm clock- John nursed his sore head for as long as we could before a quick breakfast and then onto the presents.
Archie still hasn't got into the unwrapping yet but did enjoy destroying our careful piles of paper afterwards. One of Archie's star presents was a bike which is a little too big for him (He'll grow into it) and the only person who has ridden it so far is Aiko- John also can’t touch the pedals!















Archie's other present is a speaking computer 'thing' which he likes to turn off so he can say ‘bye bye’ to it!

Anyway for those we haven't spoken to in person Merry Christmas and we hope you have a great New Year. We hope to see you at some point but if anyone happens to be coming to Japan on the off chance you are always welcome!

Yoi otoshio as they say here!