Night at the izakaya

I realised I never ended up posting photos from the Welcome party we had in March at the Izakaya in Nishi-Funabashi, so here they are.

Carrie taking a photo of me taking a photo of her taking a photo of me taking a photo of her taking a photo of me taking a photo of her taking a photo of *head explodes*

Food!!! Many photo pics in this post.

Steven (NZ), Carrie (Aus) and Stevo (UK)
Sara (US), Dan (UK) and Nobu
More food - that white and purple stuff in the bottom right is octopus... I tried some, very chewy.
Me trying sake (warm) with Arno, our branch trainer
plate dj

The lovely Sara!

Cheryl being a dork :)

Cheryl (US), Matt (UK) and Arno (Canada)

Mayu and Naomi - the Japanese staff at our branch.

Nobu assuming some sort of pose - for some reason it's named "train man"

Soba noodles - they're served to you cold, and you dip them in a special soy-like sauce

dumplings of various types

Stevo covering "Jack" and "Kyle"

chicken salad

Carrie and Nobu
Stevo, Mayu, Naomi and Sherman
Nobu mid-soba noodle

Stevo and Arno - thinking "what would make this night unforgettable?"

Maybe they thought too hard about it.