We went to Risa's Dad's birthday party in a rather posh hotel-restaurant in Morioka. We never did find out how old he is, but there was speculation of around the 50 mark. In true Japanese style, they ordered more food than anyone could possibly eat. At the end, Raisa and her sister were trying to finish it off so it wasn't wasted, and after a valiant effort looked really quite ill. The best part of the evening was when (after quite a lot of whisky had already been consumed from a hip-flask) he whipped out a bottle of champagne and asked the waiter to bring some champagne glasses and even proceeded to request for the champagne to be chilled!! I love her family!!!