Setsu-bun

Last Sunday, we went to the shopping mall and watched the Planet Earth movie there. But it bored Ken and he soon squirmed in his seat. Sometimes Mari had to take him to the rest room.
In Japan, Feb. 3 is called "setsu-bun", which means the turning point of season. Many Japanese throw beans and call "fuku-wa uchi (fortune in), oni-wa soto (demons out)". Ken made a mask of oni, a demon in Japan, in the daycare. I put the mask and entered the living room. Ken laughed and ran away, and threw beans at me. We ate the beans as many as each age to kick demons out of ourselves.
Recently, it has become popular in Japan to eat eho-maki on this day. Eho means the good fortune direction. On 2008, the direction is South Southeast (SSE). To get a fortune, one should face in the direction of eho and eat a long sushi roll (eho-maki) without talking. But we ate it over taking in the car. We lost in the direction of SSE and failed to be SSE (silent sushi-eater).
Steer straight eho, that's SSE !