It is a work place tradition to have an end of the year party called "bonenkai". It is a chance for your work group (minus spouses) to go out to eat and drink a lot to celebrate successfully completing your work year before the New Year holidays. This year we went to a hotel in resort town in the mountains, Karuizawa. Most everyone drove but because I had a meeting in Tokyo until 5PM, I had to take the Shinkansen bullet train to Karuizawa. When I arrived it was snowing and continued to snow all night. We went out to a restaurant and had lots of good Japanese food and plenty of beer and sake. After, we went back to the hotel and soaked in the hot spring (outside) while watching the snow fall on the surrounding garden. Very relaxing. We drove back down the mountain to town on Saturday afternoon.
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