Expensive Taste

Today started off with a mad rush to the train station as Nami had booked us seats to her workmates play. It started at 2 and required 3 transfers. We didnt leave the house till 10 past 1. The lack of food lead to a lack of energy which resulted in missing the train by 30 seconds.. Luckliy for us another one came 2 minutes later. We made it into the threthe bang on 2pm and had asle seats (so we didnt disturb anyone.. even tho the play hadnt even started yet).. Pic to the left is the threthe..

The Show was much better than i had expected. (seeing as it was a play in japanese with no subtitles i had anticipated sitting there for 2 hrs clueless). However there was a 10 min intermission in which Nami filled me in and the story line wasnt very complicated.. IT was about a company blowing up, creating monsters and "the company" trying to cover it up. It was quite intense. Nami`s workmate was one of the monsters and had a lead singing role.. (it was kinda a musical too, with maids singing and dancing.).. hehe

We were starving after the play and as the plays location is famous for Sushi and Sashimi (because its near the port and has the biggest, seafood market where most tokyoians get their supplies from) we naturally went for Shuji.. Now i havent eaten Sushi properly since Ive been in japan (only had the rotating sushi once). So i didnt know what to expect..

We picked our place and were seated at the counter, where the chief smiled and talked cheerfully while we called out what we wanted. He was curious about me and asked many questions (also gave me a bloody plate to catch the food coz he thought i couldnt handle chopsticks well). The picture on the left shows some kinda japanese fish (which was extremely hard and rubber like) and the other samon.

THe next picture shows some lightly grilled tuna (right side) which tasted amazing.. And so it should have for 530 yen each ($6 NZD). The other was another kinda fish. WE ordered serveral other sushi`s and one soup, i stopped quite early as i didnt see how 350yen average per mouthful was worth it. But Nami contiued (apparently Forigners and Japanese think differently. FOr japanese Sushi is an expensive dish and this pricing is expected).

When we decided to leave, we were hit with a whopping 8000yen bill (thats like 90 bucks!!). Nami paid for it as she said shse was the one who chose the place and wanted sushi. I thought it was cool but felt a little bad for spending that much on sushi!!.. but to their credit it was nice sushi and the atmostphere was wicked..

(while trying to snap a photo of the sushi shop i caught two Japanese doing their bowing offs. hehe Sushi and Bowing SOOO TYPICAL). SO as you`ve probally figured i dont think I will be taking any of yous here well not until im making ma millions. =P

With seafood smelling breath, Nami suggested we hit Tullys for a bit of a wake up hit. SO yeah, i got a double shot of espresso and ice cream. HEAVEN!! They use to have a Espresso shake which i Drunk soildly when Nami worked for TUllys but they have since taken it off the menu...

We took a stack load of movies and photos as we had a whole room to ourselves. Prehaps you`ll see em pop up some where around the net..

I then decided that i would like to have a look at some shops and given our location we opted for Harajuku as it was close. When we got there we roamed the back streets and found heaps of cool stores that i had never seen before. I found heaps of stuff i wanted, but also those were things that were way beyond my kinda income.. hehe.. To those living or going to london, look for the jewelry shop "crazy pig" they have wicked designs.. This one shop that we found that suppied them said that they have to order it and it`ll take 8months to a year to get done.. (no idea how that works)..

Time whizzed by and before we knew it the doors were coming down and people were exiting.. So we too made our way to the trainstation.. This is where i brought a 190 yen ticket (when i fully knew it costs 160 to go home) and got jam packed in the train.. But all n all good ol tokyo fun..

We were still pretty full from the sushi (or prehaps we were full coz it costs so much). So we went for ice cream in our station. (thats twice today, turning into moony!). Nami had green tea, i had bananas, brownies, and box of choclate ice cream.. THen we grabbed a piece of chicken from lawsons and came home..

Nami has been busy writting a report. Which for once isnt due tomorrow. And Im about to sign off and do some drawing.. Aki is going to use the computer tomorrow so Im gonna have to figure something else to do to keep myself occupied.. aiity homies.. p to the e to the captial A little c e.