Tonic / トニック

A couple of days before New Year's Eve, our friends Yukio and Reiko were coming to Aomori. We would be picking them up from Shin-Aomori station around 8:30pm. We were planning on having dinner with them but both Yukio and Reiko ate dinner before leaving Tokyo and had snacks on the shinkansen as well so they were not that hungry when they came into town. So, we decided to head straight over to a rockabilly bar that's run and owned by one of Yukio's friends. A place called Tonic.

大晦日の二日前に東京から友人の幸男と玲子が青森にやってきた。幸男は妻の幼馴染で彼の実家も青森です。私たちは夜８時半新青森駅に迎えに行く約束して、一緒に夕飯食べる予定だった。でも幸男と玲子は東京出発前から食べて、新幹線の中に駅弁も食べて青森に着いたら全然腹減ってなかった。予定を変更し、幸男の友達が経営してるロカビリーのバー「トニック」。

It was snowing as usual on the 29th as my wife and I were out shopping.

今日も雪が降ってた。

The bar is located on the 2nd floor of a building less than a block away from where my mother-in-law's sister works.

バーがあるビルの２階にある。義理の母の妹がこのすぐ近くにある店に働いてる。

Having drinks with our usual travel partners.

青森で旅仲間と乾杯。

Yukio / 幸男

Reiko / 玲子

The Bar / バー

We are planning on spending the day with them on the 2nd as we will be heading towards Misawa.

年明けの二日４人で三沢に行く予定。

Great to see our friends from Chiba.

千葉から来た友達と会うのは嬉しい。