Happy New Year 2001 from the Cooks

Happy Year of the Snake from the Cooks!

Thanks to Blue Mountain Arts for these great cards. Send an e-card using their service: http://www.jp.bluemountain.com/indexpages/new/nenga.html

or click on the card you want to send to go directly to that page.

New Years is the big holiday in Japan, not Christmas. Instead of Christmas cards, they send Happy New Year's cards. Most people (including us) send regular postcards they sell in the store for about $1 each. They are nicely printed (you can get personalized one's, too, or print your own message on them) and prestamped. If you mail them the week before New Year's Day, the post office will save them up and deliver them the morning of New Year's Day between two and six a.m. It's fun to wake up and go to the door to see your stack of cards wishing you well in the New Year!

Above are a few samples of e-cards BMA-Japan had. Click on them to see the large version and the front side that shows the postal marks regular cards have. There are other sites with cool cards, too, like isize
http://www2.ynot.co.jp/view/isize/104141777419866740

That was was a beautiful flash picture of sunrise with Mt Fuji and cranes. I don't know how long the link will last, but it's cool.

Thanks to Blue Mountain Arts for these great cards. Send an e-card using their service: http://www.jp.bluemountain.com/indexpages/new/nenga.html

or click on the card you want to send to go directly to that page.