laura, weekend and conference

we've been having fantastic (sorry, boarders) weather here lately...sunny and about 12 degrees. the weekend was great. laura came up from tokyo and we did the 25k bikeride from shibata into the mountains. no monkeys to be seen this time though. spent the last couple of days in niigata for the mid year JET seminar. sugoi tanoshi to see everyone i hadn't in ages. monday night we hit up shoya for a nomihodai before heading to shame. i must say, it was the funnest two hours i've had in a long time. here's a video of how we managed to get so inebriated...