New Year's Eve

We followed one of our few Japanese traditions again on this New Year's Eve. Like my family in Japan we had "sukiyaki" for dinner. Well, it was actually "as sukiyaki as it could get," since we can't have every authentic ingredient around here. I also made some smoked salmon sushi rolls above.
Chewing on the white Japanese rice so happily, I said "I must be a Japanese!" I don't need to eat Japanese food everyday, but every New Year's wouldn't feel right without a bit of Japanese traditions.
Of course, we had to have sake to celebrate with!!
Otherwise, we just stayed in. Our potential New Year's Eve party hosts were both sick again (three years in a row) and had to cancel. We let all other crazy people go out in the cold to watch our local smallish ball drop. We watched a couple of movies on Netflix, so we could stay up till midnight. Then we toasted with shots and went to bed. Kayo had to work next morning....