11 days already?? my bad.

After a busy effing week going to Tokyo for interviews, including one day with two freaking interviews in one night, I had a relaxing and totally kick ass weekend. Here we go.

Friday, I was thinking about going clubbing in Tokyo but then started getting a little sick and the weather sucked, so I decided to take it easy with Manami. Met up with her in Kashiwa, where we ate at the always-delicious 500 yen pasta place. Then we went to her house in Umesato.

Woke up early and headed to Yokohama, the second biggest city in Japan. I went to Yokohama last summer but only during the night when it was really crowded for fireworks. It was cool spending the day there. First, we hit up Chugakugai or "China Town." It's famous for being Japan's biggest China Town as well as one of the biggest CTs in the world. Here's a picture of Manami in front of one of the gates, that I guess was built in the early 1800s.



Here's a picture of the building we ate in. It's called a "Food Amusement Park," but really is just a food court specializing in Chinese food. You could eat things like scorpions and drink lizard alcohol, but we decided to stick with fairly normal food.



Lunch.



While it was a cool change eating something different and being touristy with Japanese tourists, i'm gonna say I like japanese food way more than chinese.

While we were in China Town, we had a little plastic surgery done. Here's what Manami and I look like now.



It was a cold and really windy day in Yokohama, but we made the trek to Minato Mirai, which means "port of the future." Yokohama was one of the first ports open to foreign trade, which is one of the reasons the city is so big. Minato Mirai has the country's largest building, a massive ferris wheel, and lots of shopping. Here's a city scape.


We shopped pretty hard. Here's the Modern Amusement shirt I bought.



Isn't that a nice shirt????

Next, we rode the huge ferris wheel, which apparently doubles as the largest clock in the world. That is to say, there's 60 cars on the ferris wheel, each one representing the second hand on a clock, so, it's a huge clock.



Here's the largest building in Japan as seen from the ferris wheel. I can't say I wasn't kiiinda scared on the wheel. It was windy as fuck.



Aren't we cute?



Next, we found another huge shopping mall and got dinner. We found a kick-ass restaurant called "American House" and proceeded to pig out like Americans. Here's the pizza we ordered. BBQ Chicken and hands down the best pizza I've had in Japan.



Besides that, we had calimari (any help spelling that), gumbo appetizer, and chicken fajitas. Seriously kick ass food.

With that, we called it a night and went back to Manami's house. Sunday night, we relaxed, walked the dogs (Manami got a new chihuahua, and though i've never found these dogs that cute, hers is very nice and cute), and then went to the renowned "White Gyoza." It was fun. This place is like an In N Out Burger in Japan. That is to say, the only food menu on the item is white gyoza. Shit's good though, and was delicious with beer. Here's a picture.


Yeah, I ate a shitload this weekend, and my gut proves it. But that's okay. I hope you all still love me. And with that, I'm out.

Oh yeah- Courtney, good to hear you'll be home. Let's party!