Sunday we took the long train ride towards Adam's office to have a "welcome party for Adam" with his co-workers. These are the guys that sit on either side of Adam at Nissan. Both couple's have just one son. The apartment was very small as we expected. The coffee table that we are posing in front of is where all 9 of us ate our leisurely meal of many options. The hostess (woman sitting to my right) spoke no English, but she provided us with many sandwich options, hearty soup, pasta salad, chicken/cheese balls, and brown algae with beans. Both family's gave Hannah a gift of sweets and stickers as soon as we arrived. We brought organic red wine and Ghiradelli brownies. The host served beer to the men and opened the wine for the other woman and I. The host watches for your glass to go down a few sips, and then fills it back up immediately. Also, there is no room for big plates, so we ate off of small pretty tea size plates and the hostess would take a chop stick and put bites of food on your plate. The co-workers speak above average English, and the mother of smaller child spoke well enough to converse a little. They got out the translator several times in the middle of a topic so we could understand each other. The children played happily all around us. After the meal we went outside to try out their electric bicycle. It felt like someone was pushing you up the hill when you put your feet on the pedals. They seemed content to hang out with us all afternoon, but after about 4 hours it was time to get back to Yokohama to have dinner with the Drakes and all ride the HUGE Ferris wheel together.
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