School bou nen kai

My school had its 忘年会 bou nen kai at the very posh 双葉 Futaba hotel in Yuzawa. It's a really big hotel and has some 28 onsen baths exclusively for the use of hotel guests only!! There are medicinal herb baths (for beauty, health, strength, etc), sleeping bath (just a shallow layer of water and a headrest), jacuzzi bath, hot stones bath, etc. The 28 baths took up 2 entire floors in the hotel!

First of all, we checked into the wonderful room prepared for us 6 female teachers.

It has a private 露天風呂 outdoor bath!! Just like what you see in Japan Hour!! Even the Japanese teachers were ooohing and ahhhing over it...first time for them too! All the male teachers were given normal rooms though.

But no time to enjoy the baths...off to dinner first! You draw a number as you enter the room and that determines where you sit. There is a present on every seat. I had a set of towels...another lady teacher got 4 bottles of shaving foam! Haha!

Really exquisite dishes! And as with all enkais, there was too much food.

Then it's off to the second round enkai - karaoke! The teachers got really drunk and crazy.

Here's the link if you cannot see the video on this page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8gDdBUv_8

And there was a third round as well - going out to eat ramen and drink some more! I and some other female teachers excused ourselves and went to enjoy some of the baths in the hotel!