Happy Easter

We had a very unofficial Easter weekend. Some Japanese know about Easter but many people do not so there's absolutely nothing in the way of Easter treats. We've been teaching the all important chocolate aspects of Easter to our students by handing it out and explaining the tradition. Only when I had to explain chocolate eggs and the connection to the Christian religion did I realise what a strange society we live in. I gave up and started to say it was a Spring festival and a Christian holiday combined as one. Is that right?
Saturday evening we found ourselves in a 'coffee shop' (bar) called the Rock and Roll cafe with our new Japanese musician friends. We watched the first half of an acoustic set which was pretty good. The cafe has guitars dripping from the walls and so much Beatles stuff everywhere so felt quite familiar.
Afterwards we had dinner at our friends house and ate Okonamiyaki which is a batter type mix with cabbage, ginger and a meat cooked on a hot plate and eaten with soy sauce, ketchup and mayonaise. Very delicious-particularly with octopus.
On Sunday we bought ourselves a feast of salads, calimari, cooked chicken and desert from the supermarket and had our Japanese style Easter lunch with a beer.