Log housing with Wild Blossom

Friday was Brian`s birthday! And thanks to our great friends Nat, Kelly, and Rob, it was a surprise! I took 1 picture and then forgot all about my camera. But when we showed up we found them all in a row in birthday hats. Bonus: the waiters brought out sake and a plate of Camembert with a sparkler in it. Sparkling cheese!

We ate drank and made merry there and across the street at a delicious beer bar before eating CAKE, lots of CAKE. Carrot cake with rum and orange zest icing!!!!! And 4 sticks of butter!

Then Saturday morning, our friends Saga and Sanae picked us up for a weekend at "log house", as it was told to us. We met Saga and Sanae at a campsite in a nearby town in summer. They were there with their motorcycle team (team name - Wild Blossom!) but they live in Sapporo. We ended up spending that night hanging out with the team and ever since then have met up with Saga and Sanae at least once a month. This trip was with other members of Wild Blossom! (the exclamation mark is mine) to eat, drink, take baths, and make merry in a cabin a couple of hours from town. I can say with confidence that this is the sweetest Harley gang I`ve ever met. I was too busy using my phone as a dictionary to do much camera-ing. But you can get an idea from these shots.

It was a great weekend. The leaves are in full fall regalia now so the drive was lovely. The gang was awesome, as always. And on the way back we made a Costco stop which means pizza, red wine, and this time - a pumpkin for jack-o-lanting, were ours. I do so love FALL! But, we saw a lot of these little white fairy bugs at the log house, which our friends told us are called yukimushi (snow bugs). It`s a commmonly held belief that once you see them, the snow is only a week away. The snowboarding season is nigh!