Happy Birthday Micchan!

The day started with a pancake breakfast cooked by Elyse. Minika had sent me an email a few weeks ago with birthday requests and one of them was lots of birthday kisses! Everyone thought it would be good fun to blindfold her and then each take a turn kissing her on the cheek to see if she could guess who we were! She was so scared as she had no idea what was going on but, once she’d guessed everyone, she said it was a great idea.

Once breakfast was over and everyone was ready we set off to another onsen. Allen had booked a private room for us so we could all have a quick bath (very relaxing and they even had an outside bath which was great as the autumn leaves were falling in the water) and then eat lunch together.

After such a relaxing start the big finale was always going to be hectic and so around 5pm it was time to blindfold Minika again, load up the cars with supplies and set off. We had bought her a cake and instead of just eating it and someone’s apartment we wanted to make it special so we all drove to the top of Mt. Kimpo (the highest in the city). It was freezing cold but the view of the city was amazing. The candles stayed alight just long enough for us to sing Happy Birthday and then we all tucked in. And then, after so much planning the weekend was over! I hope you had a wonderful birthday Micchan and I am so sad that next year you won’t be here : (