Principals' Party and Karaoke

It's been a busy weekend, starting with Friday night's formal party hosted for us by the Himeji Board of Education. The principals from Himeji's junior high schools were in attendance. The party started at 6 pm, and in the welcome speech, we were instructed to enjoy each others' company "for two hours". And indeed the party ended promptly at 8 pm.

There was a fancy spread - lots of crab legs, raw salmon and raw shrimp, and in the midst of this elegant food, scrambled eggs with ketchup.

Here Suvanya, Steve, and Heather are enjoying the festivities:
This is the Principal from Yumesaki Junior High School (my school last term) and me after a sampling of sake.
When the party ended at 8 pm, we went on for the after-party. We stopped first at a bar called "Not Blue" where the waiter rearranged the couches for our large group! That's Joe, Katie, Taube, Adam, Karen, Julian, and Steve.After Not Blue we went to karaoke. There are a few karaoke places in town. We frequent two of them, "Time Machine", and "the other karaoke place" (seems none of us know its name). We went to the "other place" where drinks are included! We got a room for 90 minutes and made the most of it. (Mitch, Joe, Katie, Abby, Adam, Taube, Steve, and Karen). Joe and Katie LOVE karaoke!
Our classic karaoke song is "We All Live in Shirasagi" (sung to the tune of Yellow Submarine. Shirasagi is the name of our apartment building). Julian really gets into it!