仕事納め、last day of biz 2016

昨日で仕事納め。
今年も1年おつかれさまでした！
今日含め7日間のお休み、嬉しいばかり*:)

昨日は社長がオフィスに来ていた私とコンサルの人二人をランチに連れて行ってくれて、叙々苑の焼肉をご馳走になった。お肉は私はサシが強すぎて半分しか食べられず、お隣の男性コンサルタントにあげてしまった。自分で自分に驚いた、肉好きの私が、、お腹も歳を重ねているのだなぁ、、
タンが特に美味しかった。
今の私にはタンだけでもよかったのかも。

年の最後に相応しいゴージャスランチでした！

旦那が社内ジャンケンで旅行券をゲットして帰ってきてにわかに来年のハワイ行きが現実化。下の子が2歳になる前にいけば航空運賃がかからないので、行きたいねという話はなんとなく前から上がっていた。

前回国外に出たのは、上の子が2歳になるギリギリの2011年春だったから、6年ぶりか。
それまでは年一ペースで現地の友達の家に泊めてもらって行っていたが、さすがに今回は上の子も大きくなったし、下の子も増えたので、友人宅に泊めてもらうのは遠慮してツアーで行こうかな、と思い昨夜遅く旦那が夏休み前あたりを探していた。この時期行く家族連れは結構多い気がする。終業式とその前何日かお休みしていくパターン。

昔、子供が産まれる前、好きに飲み食いし、毎土日波乗りに出かけ、年一でハワイやスノボに行ってた頃が懐かしい。当時、貯金しなさいと言われたが、あの時好きにやっておいて良かったなぁと今になれば思う。子供二人抱えるとそうもいかないからね。

いけるかなーハワイ。
いきたいなー

今日は私は子供二人を旦那に任せ、近所に住む地元が同じ友達の家に美味しいケーキを持って遊びに行ってきまーす！

ではでは。

Yesterday was the last business day this year for most companies in Japan.
Job well done for 2016!!

Good work to myself and everyone, every parent! Being a mom/dad is a work by itself and jaggling with house work and work outside the house is a massive life task. We should all be proud of ourselves!

President of the company I work for took me and 2 consultants out for lunch and treated us with nice Korean BBQ at a restaurant with magnificent view of Tokyo overlooking Mt. Fuji. It was such.good luck to see snowy Fuji on our last day of work. Too bad we couldn't toast with champagne.

Toru came home with a travel coupon from JTB, a travel agency, which he won by doing rock-scissors-paper with his colleagues. This was the best gift amongst several others given from his employer.

This pushed our plan of going to Hawai`i next year closer to us. With Hiroto turning 2 next fall, we were discussing about it . We could not quite decide California or Hawai'i since we have not visited California ever since we came bk but Toru was already checking flights to Hawai'i in next July right before summer break, so probably Hawai'i.

Last time we visited Hawai'i was when Koki was still 1, to be exact he turned 2 while he was there, so almost 6 years ago. Up until then Toru and I used to visit every summer and stayed at our friends housr, but since Koki is bigger plus Hiroto, we probably stay at a hotel, so he was checking a packaged travel.

Today, Toru is taking Hiroto and Koki to an electronics shop to buy a T-Fal electric kettle which broke a few months ago. Koki is taking his stack of good Dragonball card which he got for Christmas so he can play a game at the  shop. He is so into this Dragonball anime and he carries the cards all the time to share and trade with his friends.

I am going to my friend's house for coffee in the afternoon to chat, with some good sweets from a local patisserie shop. She is a really good friend of mine whom I have known since my late 20s. We cone from same hometown, we both used to live in California, happen to live closeby here in Tokyo. She is a mom as well and we happen to work in a same area too.

Catch you later.