Kobe and Return to Fukui

In honour of Flick's birthday, some of us headed to Kobe for a weekend of shopping, eating and drinking! What a fab place! Had an excellent time! Thanks Flick for organising it all.

The photos at the end are the welcoming sights of snowing Fukui when we returned!

	Flick and Kara at a Sri Lankan restaurant
Teresa, Melanie, me, Kara and Katie in an Irish Pub!
	Remember this girls? In a bar near the hotel
Breakfast
	Kara and a new friend...
...up close and personal (that Kara's a fast worker!)
	Awwwww!
Katie and Teresa in a Ferris wheel on the waterfront
	View from the wheel
Yes, that is Mario...
	...and a palm tree
Now this is scary... Feed money into this beastie and it walks around and sings you a song. The panda was pretty cool, too. Sorry Adam, cheap joke...
	The crowd in China Town From left (as always): Mel, Camilla, Flick, Katie, Kara, Teresa, Tom, Adam
BACK IN FUKUI: Higashiodori (large road, back of station) Well, at least they'd cleared the roads
	Part of my walk home from the station - along the river (this was the Sunday, the snow started very late on the previous Wednesday)
The beloved Beer Festa outside my apartment building
	My car - having been cleared of all snow at lunchtime on the Friday, this is what awaited me on the Sunday evening. And, yes, I did shovel it all single-handedly ready for Monday morning!