Happy New Year♥!　6

【A message for golf and baseball lovers!】

Act 15 [Hawaii Trip] Jin married Tama-chan and took over his master's construction company as a carpenter.

The couple later had a son, Hajime. Ken also wanted to work on a variety of stores, not just bakery designs, so he changed design offices three times, and then he started running his own office as a freelance designer.

Ken and Natsu-san, who were married through an arranged marriage, had a new addition to their family, Tomo-chan, and their children started going to kindergarten.

It was the bubble era, and both Ken and Jin were busy at the end of the year, when Ken's wife Natsu-san won a 3-day, 5-day trip to Hawaii in a lottery at the town's shopping district.

"Okay, ladies, we'll do the lottery three times, so please spin."

The ball that fell after spinning the rattle was a white ball.

"Too bad, here's a tissue." The second time, I spun the rattle a little more slowly, and the ball that fell was also a white ball.

"Too bad again, here's a tissue."

"Are they all white balls?"

"No, that's not true, we haven't won the first prize trip to Hawaii yet."

"Really?"

This time I spun the rattle at high speed.

The ball that fell was gold.

"Golden ball...." The man rang the bell.

"Big hit! First prize has finally been won!"

Everyone turned to look.

Jin's wife Tama-chan, who was standing behind me, said,

"You did it, Natsu-chan."

"Really, Tama-chan, this isn't just a dream, is it?"

When I got home, I showed Ken the invitation ticket for the Hawaii trip at dinner.

"We won a trip to Hawaii."

"What, we won a car, did you leave a transvestite behind?"

"Are you stupid? We won a trip to Hawaii in a lottery at the shopping district."

"Really? I get it, it's a Hawaiian hot spring in Tottori!"

"No, it's real Hawaii, aloha."

"Aloha, really aloha."

"Yeah, I said aloha,"

Natsu said.

"Yay! Aloha trip... how many days?"

"It's 3 nights there, and 5 days for the round trip flight."

"3 nights and 5 days?... 3 nights is 4 days, so how does it become 5 days?"

"Really?... It's an extra day!"

"Extra? I feel bad, I'm even getting a freebie."

"How many people can go, when can they go, where is the hotel, are meals included?"

"Don't ask me all these weird questions."

"Um, 6 people, it's March, It's four months away, the hotel is the Sheraton Waikiki, and meals aren't included. It's just the airfare and the hotel."

"How stingy, you could have included the meals as an extra!" "Well, that's fine, I'm happy. Who's going?"

"Tomo-chan, my grandparents, and me, there are five of us. I wonder if there's anyone else?"

"Yeah, I'll ask right away."

Ken asked his mom and dad who lived next door.

"We're tired of being on a plane for hours, and we've been to Hawaii before, so invite Jin-san and the others next door and go by yourself."

Ken's mom and dad had passed their business on to his younger brother and were living in retirement.

Their hobby was traveling, and they had traveled to Hawaii, Singapore, and various places in Europe.

"Well then, Dad, Mom, how about we go to a hot spring in Tottori? If we use the highway, we can get there in 2 or 3 hours."

"That sounds good, where is that hot spring?"

"Hawaii hot spring."

"Take me there, if you're in Hawaii!"

"Okay."

Then one day in January, Ken and his family of five went on an overnight trip to Hawaii hot spring in Tottori.

On the way back, they went to Izushi near Kinosaki hot springs to eat sara soba noodles, which made Ken's dad and mom very happy.

Ken and Natsu called out to Jin-san and Tama-chan who were sitting next to them.

"Why don't the three of us and Jin-san go to Hawaii?"

"Is it okay? Are Ken's dads not going?"

"I'm getting old so I can't take long plane trips, and I've already been to Hawaii so that's fine!"

"Gen, do you want to go to Hawaii with Tomo-chan?"

"Yeah, let's go. What's Hawaii?"

"It's a place with a pool and the ocean so you can swim."

"Yes, yes, let's go, we're definitely going!"

"Jin, how are you planning your work?""The house we're building now will be handed over at the end of February, so we should be able to manage it."

"Okay, I got it. It's settled!"

Then, Ken and Jin's families were busy getting passports and visas, and March arrived.

The vagabond Hide was in the stomach of summer.

"Good morning~ It's finally here, the flight from Kansai Airport is at night, so it leaves in the afternoon."

"Jin, have you arranged your work?"

"It's fine, I've been working nonstop for almost 10 years, so I'm going to take it easy this time.

Are you okay, Ken?"

"I'm a one-person office, so we'll be fine."

"Then let's leave at 1 o'clock."

Ken and Jin's family rolled their heavy suitcases to the station by bus and headed for Kansai Airport.

The six of them arrived at Kansai International Airport a little early in the evening.

Everyone was excited as they sat on a bench and waited for the airline's check-in counter to open.

Tomomi and Hajime were running around. When the check-in counter opened, the six of them showed their passports, checked their suitcases, and received their boarding passes.

The flight was scheduled to depart at around 8pm, so they had more than two hours to wait, and decided to eat at a udon restaurant in the restaurant area.

After the meal, they entered the gate and saw a sign that said no bottled drinks were allowed.

"Hey, it seems like you can't bring drinks. What should we do?" "It's a waste, so let's just drink it."

"Yeah."

"Mom, I'm not thirsty."

"It's okay, just drink a little."

The six of them drank the tea from their bottles while standing in line.

They showed their boarding passes to the attendant, put their bags containing their luggage, wallets, sunglasses, house keys, and other small items on a tray, and went through the infrared gate.

Ken and Natsu had been on a plane before, when they went to Singapore on their honeymoon.

This was the first time for Jin, Tama, and the children to fly.

"Hey, Ken, is the plane safe?"

"What are you talking about? It's like a Showa revival. It's apparently the safest form of transportation now."

"Ha, you're just repeating what you said ages ago." After somehow passing the body check, we went down the escalator and finally lined up at the departure gate.

"Hey, Ken, that officer looks scary. I wonder if he'll be arrested." "What a stupid thing to say!"

Jin usually wears carpenter's work clothes and a headband, so it seems that everyone in uniform looks like a police officer.

He only wears ties and suits to weddings and funerals, so he only has one black suit that can be worn all year round, one black and one white. Finally, it's Jin's turn.

Tama-chan and Moto go to the gate together.

"Take off your sunglasses and show us your passport."

"Um, here you are."

The officer silently checks various things.

The time seemed so long, and Jin thought.

"My heart is beating so hard, it feels like it's going to jump out of my chest."

"Here you go!"

He got his passport and boarding pass back.

He left the departure gate, where Ken and the others were waiting for him.

Jin felt relieved, and the world suddenly seemed bright before his eyes.

In this open and spacious place, there were rows of duty-free shops, and the air was filled with the smell of cosmetics.

The beautiful woman in uniform offering him cigarettes and alcohol looked like a policewoman to Jin.

Even though he hadn't done anything wrong, Jin seemed to have a habit of freezing up when he saw the police.

Jin had previously been driving a light truck in the passing lane on the Second Hanna Expressway.

"Oh, that's a white Crown undercover police car." The Crown, which was driving slowly in the driving lane at the speed limit, had two rearview mirrors on the driver's seat, and two traffic police officers in blue uniforms were in the car.

Jin, who had been told by Ken about the characteristics of the undercover police car, found it at the right time and slowed down.

The cars were packed tightly behind the undercover police car with no space between them.

Everyone else had seen through it, just like Jin.

Jin froze, not knowing whether it was okay to get in front of the police car or get in the driving lane, so he drove alongside the undercover police car for a while.

After a while (woooo♪) the siren sounded and the red lights on the roof of the Crown were spinning.

"Yes, driver of the light truck next to you, please move over to the left and stop!" Jin was caught.

"What?! I wasn't going over the speed limit and I didn't break any rules!"

Jin parked his light truck on the left side of the road and was instructed by the police officer to get into the back seat of the Crown.

"Yes, let me see your license." Jin still had no idea that he had broken any rules.

"Do you know what "keep left" means?"

"I don't know anything about that!"

"It's a violation to keep driving in the passing lane."

"Is that so? Was that the rule when I got my driver's license?"

Jin was issued a ticket.

For some reason, whenever he saw a police officer, Jin froze up. "Maybe I was a thief in my lifetime."

He bought three cartons of Seven Stars at a duty-free shop. Apparently, if you open one carton in Hawaii, you can bring the other two back to Japan.

It's much cheaper than buying it in Japan.

Both Ken and Jin felt like they'd gotten a bargain.

Jin was surprised at how cheap the price tags on Ballantine's and Old Parr were in the liquor section.

Natsu and Tama's eyes were shining in the cosmetics section. Tomo and Gen were wandering around the high-end chocolate and toy sections.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and they got on a red shuttle that runs on tires and arrived at the gate to take off for Hawaii. Tomo-chan and Hajime(Gen)-chan shouted as they watched the plane take off through the glass.

"Wow, it's so big. Oh, it's flying again, what a loud noise."

Finally, the boarding announcement was made, and everyone took turns showing their passports and boarding passes, walking down the narrow aisle, and boarding the plane.

"Oh, it's a stewardess, no, a stewardess."

"You're an idiot, we don't say stewardess now."

"Then what do you say?" "We say cabin attendant."

"That's even more difficult, I'm going to bite my tongue."

Everyone showed their boarding passes and headed to their seats. The three of us sat in two rows by the windows, and Tomo-chan and Gen-chan neatly secured windows.

The plane was full.After instructions on how to put on emergency life jackets, the plane slowly began to move.

It was time to take off.

An electronic sound (beep, beep♪) rang out, and the terrifying sound of the jet engines echoed.

Jin was already frozen.

The plane was accelerating so fast that his back was glued to the seat. The front of the plane gradually raised, and the seat he was sitting in gradually tilted backwards.

With a terrifying roar, the plane left the ground and steadily increased in altitude.

The night view sparkled, and it was very beautiful.

Perhaps it had reached its maximum altitude, as the plane became horizontal, and the jet noise became quiet.

(beep, beep♪)

Another electronic sound rang, and the seat belt lights went out.

The cabin attendants were busy preparing drinks and snacks.

My ears were ringing and it was hard to hear the sounds around me. "It's amazing, a big chunk of iron like that can fly in the sky!"

Jin said.

"They're reviving the Showa era again,"

Ken said.

The six of them fell asleep chatting, eating, and listening to music through headphones.

(Beep, beep♪ Our plane will soon cross the International Date Line)

Jin woke up and asked,

"What's the International Date Line?"

"America is one day behind Japan."

"Is America more advanced than Japan? Is it behind Japan?"

"Are you stupid? I'm talking about the date, the time difference." "Time difference? I get it, it's the time difference attack they showed in the volleyball game at the Olympics!"

"Why, hahaha, that's really funny."

"So we left on Wednesday, and when we get to Hawaii tomorrow, it'll be Wednesday again."

"Oh, so that's like we gained a day."

"It's an extra day for a 3 night 5 day trip."

While Ken and Jin were doing their stupid comedy routine, the plane arrived at Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii.

After getting off the plane, the terminal at Honolulu Airport was full of foreigners.

"Ken, there are a lot of blondes like Marilyn Monroe here."

"That's so true."

Finally, the immigration gate appeared before their eyes.

Jin was still frozen.

"Hey, the attendant is a foreigner."

"Well, obviously.

It would be weird for a Japanese person to speak Japanese in Hawaii."

"That's true, I guess." Finally, it was Jin and his son's turn.

"Hallo. Welcome to Hawaii."

Jin: "Hello,......."

"Are you sightseeing, how many days your stay?"

"Saito Bedding? How does this foreigner know the Saito family in the neighborhood where I used to work part-time?"

"Yes, Saito Bedding, the store..."

"ten? 10days?"

"......?"

"Ok, please. Have good travelling."

Jin and his family were able to leave the gate safely.

"Dad, that's so cool you can speak English."

"Yeah, I guess my English was understood."

Ken and Jin's family picked up their suitcases, put them on a cart, went through security, and went outside the automatic doors to find a Japanese person waiting for them with a sign saying

"Ayu-sama" and "Eburi-sama" written on it.

"Hallo. Welcome to Hawaii.

I'm Jim, a third generation Hawaiian.

Nice to meet you!"

Ken and his family said,

"Hello, nice to meet you."

Jin said, "Hello, nice to meet you.

No, that's the wrong request."

"Hahaha, nice to meet you."

It seems that the yet-to-be-born New Year's Day has inherited Jin's bloodline.

"Everyone, if you need to exchange money for dollars, you can do it here."



Act 16 [Uninvited Guest] During the rainy season, the weather was gloomy from the morning, and I had a strange feeling that the sky was about to cry.

My bad feeling turned out to be a perfect winner, and I got a big win!

"Ayu-san, please caddy for two couples today!"

"Are you by any chance the flashy mama-san and the lively hostess and the water girl I saw earlier?"

"I wonder."

I loaded my bags into the cart and prepared rain gear, including a blue tarp.

"It's so humid, it's awful."

I was wearing my raincoat, so I was soaked in sweat from the morning.

My makeup and sunscreen foundation were like sorbet.

"It looks like more stains will appear."

I found a pink bag.

"I wonder if it's the young girl from before, her club head cover, grips, everything is all pink! Oh, this guy is completely green, just like Ryuyisou [all green] in mahjong."

I had a habit of secretly adding nicknames, characteristics, etc., such as resemblance to an actor, to remember which bag or club each person was using.

As I approached the starting hole on the inside course, there they were!

A young gal who looked like a mama-san, with pink-pink clothes and sun visor, and a Ryuyisou man in green clothes!

"No matter how you look at it, it looks like an affair."

The other couple was coordinated in dark blue and reddish purple, like a cocktail party dress, and the hostess and the monotone color of Hiroshi Uchiyamada & Cool Five, and looked like customers of the accompanying club! Both the mama of Omizu in navy purple and the assistant mama in pink pink were wearing super mini skirts, and their primary colors were enough to make them stand out even from the restaurant on the second floor of the clubhouse.

The rain was just a light drizzle.

I hope they could keep it that way.

"Good morning.I'll be your caddy today. My name is Ayu. It's unfortunate that the weather is bad, but I hope we can make it work! Thank you."

"Oh, caddy, please."

The group of women smiled and bowed.

"Also, excuse me, but could the leader please wear this ribbon?" "Oh, I understand."

The quiet-looking person in monotone clothing put the ribbon on her left sleeve.

I saw the group in front of me hit their second shot and started to walk away, and I said,

"Well, let's go! Thank you."

The group of men didn't talk much to each other, and just watched in silence even when one of them made a nice shot.

Or rather, they were whispering with the woman next to them, and barely paying attention to what the others were doing.

(Probably the men were meeting each other for the first time.) When the women hit shots from the ladies' tee at the front, they would clap loudly, but there was a rather dull atmosphere in the air.

As they played through the holes in silence, the rain started to pour down. Pink Pink said,

"Ah, that's why I told you to cancel!"

Ryu Yi Sou retorted in Kansai dialect,

"Is the rain my fault? It's the rainy season, so it can't be helped!" "Come on, come on, it's a rare day off! Let's play together," said Shikon's mama. The clouds started to look ominous, just like the weather, so I poured the cold tea I had brought with me into a paper cup and asked,

"Would you like some cold tea?"

"Oh, thank you! I'll have some."

"I'd like some too!"

"Here you go, shall I get some rainwear?"

I excitedly took it out of my bag pocket as instructed, and just as I expected, even Ryuu's raincoat was green.

(Yay! I feel like I've made a nice sacrifice bunt! I really like the color green.)

When I asked the women if they wanted raincoats,

"I don't have one! Please bring an umbrella! Make sure you open it!"

I was annoyed, but I handed her the umbrella, carefully wiped the grip with a towel so it wouldn't slip, and when I tried to hand her the club, she had already reached the ball position with the umbrella.

I ran over and handed her the club, and Pink Pink, with her umbrella still open, put it down next to her, and without even a practice swing, suddenly hit the ball.

Naturally, as I expected, she duffed it and spat out the words,

"The grip is wet! I slipped and missed! Ah, my clothes are all muddy, I hate this!"

I apologized, wiped it down again with a towel in front of her, handed her the club back, and ran back to the cart.

In my mind, I was muttering to myself

(Hey! Don't blame us for your mistakes because it's raining! Don't get your grip wet! Don't get your head cover dirty! Give me that umbrella open! It's raining because you've been a bad person - it really pisses me off! If you don't want to get wet, just cancel the booking and ask the customer for a bottle of Dom Perignon...)

(Kansai ladies are scary! They fawn over me because they think I'm a little young. What a selfish girl! You'll be old too someday.)

The internal retaliation relieves some of the stress.

The group behind me started to get stuck and there was a gap between them and the group in front of me, so I whispered to Monotone-san, the leader,

"I'm sorry, customers, but could you please hurry up a little?"

Saki Ikuyo-san had told me not to say it so that everyone could hear, but to casually tell the leader when there was a gap between us and the group in front of me.

I couldn't say it out loud, but if I spoke quietly, they wouldn't hear! No, they heard me.

"Yeah! You can't see the group in front of you! I get it. I'll let everyone know."

But the remaining three were just going at their own pace. She walked slowly with her umbrella in hand, putted with one hand while still holding the umbrella on the green, and even picked up the ball that was still more than a meter away from the cup, asking,

"Is this OK?"

before even waiting for a reply. (She's a fearless mom who knows no fear!)I had to go and check on the next hole, so I handed the pin flag to the purple-and-navy mama who had finished before me,

"Excuse me, can I ask you for this?"

"Okay! Sure."

The rest of the guys and the pink gals all put the ball in the cup and headed to the next hole. Even though the group behind them was waiting for the green to clear, the purple-and-navy mama and the pink-and-pink mama were writing down their scores on the green and walking slowly along.

"I got a bogey." "Me too, bogey!"

(Wait a second! Mama got on in 4, but then she made a good putt of over 1m at the end, so it was a 2-putt double bogey! Doesn't the good putt count?)

(And hey! Pink Pink, that botched shot was my fault, so it doesn't count after all?...Angry!)

To top it off, the purple-and-blue mama slung the pin flag over her shoulder and accompanied me to the next hole, as if to dance the last dance! From the group behind me,

"Hey, where's the flag?"

"I can't find where the cup is."

"Oh no, excuse me, sir! I'll take the pin."

"Oh, I wonder why it followed me here - sorry."

(No, sorry! I was stupid to leave it to them...)

I ran back to the front green, muttering to myself again, bowed to the group behind me,

"Excuse me, sir."

I bowed again and sprinted to the next hole! I returned to the tee, panting and huffing.

A truly unwelcome guest. Poor manners.

"Speaking of manners, lately customers have been taking the white hand towels from the bathroom, it's annoying. They even take the bath towels when they go home!"

"Apparently, some customers are so bad they even take the plastic bags from the bathhouse in a big bundle."

"I wonder if they use them for garbage bags. Maybe they think their wives will be happy, because the other day even my hair tonic and hairbrush went missing!"

"That's so bad."

Doronuma Emiko, an older lady caddy who speaks in full Kansai dialect

"Even when playing golf, there are some guys with bad manners. " "It's painful" "The ones you see often are ones that lay eggs, after all"

"There they are! The other day, a customer hit the ball into the woods on the right with her second shot, and I said,

"It looks like it's out of bounds, so can I have a provisional ball?" The customer then said,

"I think it's probably OK! It looked like it hit the fence and bounced back,"

and sprinted off towards the woods, and I was late. I looked around pretending to look for my ball, and thought,

"Oh, that customer is going to lay eggs,"

and then it fell right from my right pocket! Then, he looked at me, who was pretending not to see, and said,

"Oh, caddy, it's here! This is safe!"

as if he didn't know anything.

"It's the same old pattern."

"Even worse, the ball that was just born has a bad lie, so they roll it with their club and move to a place with a better lie."

"Their house must be smaller now that they've had a baby!"

"We caddies pretend not to see, but we're always paying attention to the four players, you know."

"A customer who pretends to mark the green and flicks the marking with his thumb."

"5m has become 2m."

"Even 2m away, that kind of guy can't 3-putt I'm not confident in my putting."

"Really, really! I have to be careful not to get lost in line, even when it's time to pee, and when I'm hitting the ball, I'm just like a kindergarten teacher!"

"They're all problem children!"

"But when one goes to the right and one goes to the left, I just miss them."

"That's right, it should have gone into the woods on the left, quite far back, but while I was looking to the right, the customer in the woods on the left brought the ball back to the fairway, hit a tree, and went back.

"There are some crazy people who come here thinking, I've got to get some!"

(That's why individual morality is important.)

"Speaking of eggs, I remembered that the other day, I laid one in the woods to the right of the third hole, one in the pond on the fourth hole, and one on the left of the fifth hole. I laid so many that I didn't refill my pocket, and now my pocket is empty!"

"Hahaha! I'm out of eggs, so what happened?"

"Caddy, bring me the balls in your bag!"

I couldn't help but say

"How many more do you want?"

"No matter where you are, you're making babies.

"He looks like some idiot husband."

"The worst part is that the ball was born, but it seems he overlooked a white stake, and the customer gave birth to the ball in the OB area."

"He's not going to be recognized! But there's no one like that!" "There he is, there he is, after he put the ball down, the caddy asked if it was safe, and when I looked, there was another white stake on the course side, and there's a customer out there! I'm sorry, but it's OB. I told him firmly!"

The customer was disappointed and went back and hit it again. "You can't do bad things!"

"I get angry easily, and there are customers."

"He's so angry! The other day, he hit the ball out of bounds many times, and when I told him,

"You're hitting it from the front!"

he got pissed and said,

"Don't keep saying it from the front! If you say it again, I'll step back and hit it from the back tee again!"

"Hahaha! He's like a rebellious golfer."

"When you say pissed, he gets pissed even at restaurants!"

"At a restaurant? What kind of pissed?"

"The lunchtime wait is always so long! If you drink too much draft beer and still have time, it's fine to play shogi or go, but some people get angry, get drunk, or maybe they're gambling, and they start arguing, saying,

"Wait for me! No, I can't wait!"

"Hahaha! He's like a corrupt loan shark demanding payment and a shogi player who has defaulted on his loan and filed for bankruptcy! "

"You have to observe basic manners."

"It was a really fun time! Looking back on her two years as a caddy, Natsu thought,

"I'm glad I was able to do this job! It's an irreplaceable memory for us!"



Act 17 [Hawaii Trip 2] After exchanging money, we left the airport.

It was March, but we found ourselves in a foreign land with warm tropical sunlight.

A tanned, glamorous woman in an aloha shirt placed a lei garland around our necks. We loaded our luggage onto the designated tour bus and boarded.

It was only just after 9am.

The bus passed through Diamond Head and other tourist spots, and arrived at our accommodation, the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, in the afternoon.

Check-in was at 3pm, so we sat on the sofa in the lobby, feeling dazed, perhaps due to jet lag or lack of sleep.

At 3pm, Jim, a Japanese man who had received the key from the front desk, handed us our room keys and told us the room number. "Deha, I'll excuse myself here. I'll come to pick you up tomorrow morning. The bellboy will carry your luggage to your room, so please give him a tip! Enjoy your stay!"

"Thank you, Jim."

Tomorrow, they're going to do something called whale watching, which they signed up for as an optional tour.

Everyone took the elevator up to the 12th floor of the hotel and was shown to their rooms next to each other.

They gave a tip to the bellboy who carried their luggage and dived into the bed.

"Wow, we finally arrived."

The room was very spacious and had two large beds placed apart. The view outside the window was amazing.

"Wow, hey, look, you can see the pool below, and beyond that you can see the ocean!"

Gen was really excited. "I'm going to Tomoko's room!"

"Hey, hey!"

Gen was already opening the door and knocking on the next room. "That's quick."

Tama-chan organized her things, changed into casual clothes, and went to Ken-san's room.

Gen and Tomo-chan were jumping on the trampoline on the bed. Ken and Natsu had also changed into casual clothes.

"This room is spacious, it's nice."

"Really, this is the first time we've had something like this."

"Hey, are you hungry?"

"I'm really hungry."

"Let's go and get something to eat."

"I agree. Let's go!"

The key that was handed to her was a card type, and the door had an auto-lock.

"When you leave the room, the door won't open unless you notice it, so you need to lock it."

"What kind of pun is that!"

Everyone left the hotel and walked down the bustling street.

The street was jammed with lots of old, flashy, long limousines. Everyone looked around and went into a restaurant with white tables and beach chairs outside.

Everyone sat down together and Ken said,

"Shall we order pizza and beer?"

"Yeah."

"What's pizza?"

Jin said.

"Hmm, it's an Italian food, like cheese okonomiyaki!"

"This is America, not Italy, but it looks delicious, let's have that!" Ken ordered pizza and three draft beers in broken English, and mango juice for the children because it's Natsu and she's pregnant.

"Hey Ken, look at that! That waitress is carrying a draft beer."

The waitress was carrying a plastic mug that was a smaller version of a bucket, with Budweiser beer in it.

"This is America, I've never seen such a big draft beer before." "You're right, I can't drink that much, I'll get drunk."

While we were talking, the draft beer was placed in front of Ken and Jin.

"This is bad, let's cancel two of them now."

"You're so serious, excuse me."

The waitress brought four empty mugs, put them on the table, and left.

"What is this? This guy was a pitcher."

"Pitcher? Ken, is he playing baseball somewhere?"

"You idiot, it's not that pitcher, I'm pouring this pitcher's beer into this empty jockey."

"Oh, really, I'm surprised."

Everyone poured themselves some draft beer and gulped it down while laughing.

"Cheers! This is so good. This Budweiser is really cold."

"You're so serious, it's seeping into your every last fiber."

As I was making a fuss with foam all around my mouth, the foreigners around me were looking at me with smiles on their faces.

The next pizza was a thick okonomiyaki about 5cm thick.

On top of the cheese, it was piled with mushrooms, anchovies, and ham.

Everyone had their mouths open.

"Is this what they call pizza, Ken?"

"No, it's quite different from what I had in mind."

Ken was imagining a pizza with a thin, crispy crust and cheese on top, like the famous Naples Margherita.

"Let's just eat it, it's cut into six equal pieces."

Everyone was full after eating about a third of it.

"Phew, I can't take it anymore, this is America after all, everything is so generous."

Ken and his friends were full before dinner, and didn't even want to look at pizza for a while.

They left the tip on the table and left more than half of it. When they got back to the hotel, the kids quickly changed and went to swim in the pool with their moms.

Ken and Jin must have drunk too much beer, because they fell asleep in bed.

Around 7pm, everyone sat down at the poolside barbecue corner and enjoyed a barbecue of meat and seafood.

In front of us was a pleasant Hawaiian ukulele live performance, and Ken and Jin drank Budweiser while watching a hula dance show, with dancers blowing fire with something in their mouths.

The night sea breeze was very pleasant, and the sound of the waves lapping on the shore echoed in our ears.

Natsu and Tama were also in a good mood, free from cooking and cleaning up. Tomo-chn and Gen were also very happy.

The show ended around 8:30, and when we returned to our room, everyone was fast asleep.

We woke up feeling good on the second day.

"Ah, that was a good sleep."

We still had time before Jim came to pick us up.

We all went to the hotel cafe for breakfast.

A set of omelettes, sausages, croissants, etc. is served on a plate, and coffee is free to refill."The volume of everything in America is incredible."

Jim came to pick us up at the hotel at 10:00.

Only available in winter!

The spectacular performance of the humpback whales that come to Hawaii's waters every December to March is very impressive! The whale watching cruise while sailing off the coast of Oahu is very immersive! We were able to observe the whales' amazing performances, such as blowing (squirting), slapping (smacking their tail fins), and breaching (rotating).

After that, we went to the sandbar by boat.

At the sandbar, where the white sand and emerald green sea spread out, Tomoko and Moto were delighted to encounter sea turtles.

After playing a lot, we returned to the hotel in the afternoon.

After taking a shower and resting in our room, we went to the Ala Moana Center, the largest shopping mall in Hawaii.

It was a huge mall with over 350 shops lined up, and I felt a gap between the idyllic tea fields of Ujitawara and the Showa and Reiwa eras.

For dinner, we went to a steakhouse and were surprised by the huge steak as big as a straw sandal, but the meat was tough and it felt like he was chewing gum.

When we ordered, we told the staff that Tama-chan's birthday was today, and just as we finished eating the steak, it suddenly got dark and a staff member came toward us, lighting a cake with candles.

Behind them, a staff member with a guitar and a ukulele arrived singing Happy Birthday.

"Happy Birthday Dear Tama-chan. Happy Birthday to You♪" The foreigners around us all applauded.

Tama-chan was so touched by the surprise present that she was in tears.

The kids were tired from playing and looked sleepy, so Natsu and Tama-chan went back to the hotel.

Ken and Jin went to a karaoke bar frequented by Japanese people because it was still early.

"Ken, there's a karaoke bar here, and it says Karaoke Snack in Japanese!"

"Let's go in and take a look."

"Everything is an experience, let's go in!"

We went up the stairs and opened the door, and there were about eight Japanese customers inside, and they were having a great time.

Everyone made room for the two newcomers and spoke to us in English and broken Japanese.

"Where are you from? Are you a tourist?"

"We're from Japan. Kyoto."

"Oh, I see, welcome. I know Kyoto. Kinkaku Temple, Kiyomizu Temple."

"Are you talking about the tempura restaurant in Kyoto?"

Jin said. "Temple means temple,"

Ken said.

"Well, sit here, welcome. What do you want to drink?"

I wanted to drink shochu, but it didn't seem like there was any, so I ordered a beer.

"Who's going to sing next?"

Japanese songs were popular, and everyone was singing old Japanese folk songs and enka.

"Hey, Ken washi and the others, let's sing too!"

"Oh, what shall we sing?"

Jin, who loves enka, requested Yoshi Ikuzo's

"Oyukakete, No, Yukiguni."

"Chasing(Oikakete)~Chasing~♪ Oikakete~Yukiguni♪" "Pyu~Yay!"

The crowd was in a frenzy.

All the Japanese suffered humiliation in World War II, but somewhere, they had Japanese pride, while still being pure-hearted towards America.

They probably saw somewhere in them the image of their parents who had come to Brazil and Hawaii with difficulty.

After hearing the authentic enka, the Japanese sang for Jin in a big chorus for an encore.

Jin was a good singer.

In a good mood, Jin performed three songs in a row, including "Amagi-goe" and "Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyugeshiki."

The snack bar had become a stage for enka singers and a one-man live show for Jin.

Ken also wanted to sing, but he preferred Queen and jazz to enka, so he let Jin take the lead.

They had planned to have a few drinks and then go home, but after a series of encores, they performed for nearly two hours and returned to the hotel, where they fell asleep again.

The third day was completely free.

Ken and Natsu invited Tama-chan to go golfing.

Jin doesn't play golf.

He has a good physique, but he seems to prefer watching sports to playing them.

He watches baseball on TV and fishing shows, and says,

"I'd like to go fishing when I retire."

"I'll watch you, Gen and Tomo-chan, at the pool, so go."

Tama-chan recently started golfing after being invited by Natsu. They've played the course together twice. They play some lively golf.

"Yay, I hit it! Oh, I swung and missed. Kyaaa, it's an OB!"

Their stomachs were starting to show a little during the summer, but the obstetrician told them to exercise as much as possible, so the three of them went to the golf course in a worn-out limousine that had come to pick them up at the hotel.

The golf course was very spacious and beautiful, and the scenery was completely different from that of Japanese golf courses.

There were not many tall trees, and the palm trees and cactus-like trees and red soil made it feel like a scene from a Western movie. We rented clubs and shoes, and bought two bags of 10 lost balls from the shop.

Unlike Japanese golf courses, there was no restaurant in the clubhouse, so we bought hot dogs and drinks from a food truck before the start, and played 18 holes in one go in a self-service electric cart.

The ball hit the center of the fairway with a bang, and all three of us got off to a great start.

We felt good about our golf experience, which was different from Japan.

"It feels good~"

"It feels so refreshing~"

"Ahh, I hit it, but it curved!"

The ball that Tama hit went into the grass.

While the three of us were looking for the ball, a cart with a foreigner in it passed Ken's cart.

"He passed us. In Japan, we don't pass the group in front of us." Maybe Japanese people are the only people in the world who wait in line, don't cut in line, and give priority to those who are getting off. In the end, we were overtaken by two carts, and we finished golfing and returned to the hotel, eating hot dogs on the way.

"Thank you, Jin."

"It's fine, Gen and Tomo-chan are playing in the shallow water, and I like to just hang out too."

The kids played in the pool for six or seven hours, squealing with joy.

The fourth day, the last day of free time until after noon, the hotel checks out at 10, but they will store your luggage for you.

We killed time by buying souvenirs for everyone at Ala Moana Shopping Center, then headed to Honolulu Airport in the early afternoon.

Our trip to Hawaii was like a dream, and in the blink of an eye, we received an unexpected gift in the year-end raffle.

The six of us left at night and returned to Osaka.

We crossed the date line and returned to Japan a day earlier, which meant that the extra day was wiped out, and we felt like we'd lost out.

The six of us returned to Ujitawara late at night, and slumbered as if we'd finally been able to lie down after staying up all night for days.