Totoro, Beer and Home cooked FooD

Who would have thought $18 could get you so much food!! Last nite, Nami and i decided on chinese. What a choice that was.! We got a large plate of fried rice, Large plate of karaage (fried chicken), two bowls of soup, 5 Gyoza (fried dumplings), Large plate of veges and white rice!! And by golly by gosh we were FULL!! i mean packed to the max.

Today.... Finally a real day off. WE woke up bright and early to visit Totoro. It was amazing. THe musem is so cool, but unfortunatly you aint allowed to take photos inside, so I`ma have to take you guys to visit it. There were many rooms, and wicked animation displays and even a unique movie. (mei chan and neko bus- sub story of totoro). THese are some photos taken outside.

This is Kyoshinhei (on the left) from the cartoon Laputa. It stands nearly two stories high. Nami got a photo with him, but when it was my turn, a whole lot of chinese tourist came and i got camera shy. =P Totoro ( right) sits in a little booth at the entrance. WHile he doesnt move, its always a nice to see a great ball of fluff at 10 in the A M. Go Miyazaki!!

Yo so THe musem is located in the west wing of a national park, so afterwards we took a nice stroll around (ended up circling the place 3 times coz we got lost). Its always good been out in about, green-ary is so rare here. Lots of people were out jogging and playing soccer.

It really is a gorgeous park, with water fountains, bridges, mini temples and huming birds. Aparently there was also an elephant too (although we never came across it, there were some strange foot prints in the ground, totoro maybe?....)

THe park is in a place called Kichijyoji (10 min train ride on the chou rapid, from our house) and in the park was a cool little Thai resturant. We ate Tom Yum Kun cooked with Ramen (japanese style noodles) to top it off i had a beer.

The view from our table (pic on the left) in
which i shocked a few people when the flash
went off. =P

The beer from China, there were heaps of choices of beer from all the asian countries and while it was a toss up between this and a Tiger beer, i had to go with the china one. Cheers Boys. =)

We were nakked by the end of our little day out and came home to rest, Nami was out like a light and i talked to my family for a while. WHen she awoke she cooked Bacon and mushroom calbonara and chinese soup! It was delicious, then again home cooked meals usually are. And in the sprit of shared responsiblities i did the dishes (there were a stack load, no wonder why we dont cook at home much). Later on Nami watched tv and my Dai-lo called me and we had a little catch up. Well its about time i hit the hay, I`m running on 7 hrs sleep for two days. Peace out yall. Tmr`s gonna rock!! X style