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Mike's here...
He got in okay on Thursday night, though it was raining. We met up, went back to Akabane, had dinner at Jonathan's diner, and then just came back here for the evening.
Friday, we went to Odaiba, but first stopped in Akihabara for lunch at Hamakatsu (where we think they must have changed management because the portions look smaller, and they got my order wrong, and it was just not as good as in the past. I dunno) and Yodobashi, looked at the XBox Kinect stuff (Mike works on the Kinect), and then walked the main drag to Suehirocho station to take the subway to Asakusa.
In Asakusa, rather than go to Sensoji, we just went straight to the boat terminal and got on a boat down the Sumidagawa, to Odaiba eventually (with stops at Hamarikyu and Hinode). The boat was nice and we were able to sit down after Hamarikyu. Then Odaiba... actually, we basically walked from the boat landing to Palette Town, skipping most of the stuff along the way there. In Palette Town we rode one of those little painted hybrid smartcar thingies at the Toyota center (so I still got to do something new even though I'd been to Odaiba a billion times), and we saw the trumpet-playing robot, this time playing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. And we rode the ferris wheel and played games at Leisure Land, and I think that is all we did. (We did both Gashaaaan! and the ball-throwing bingo target thingy with 16 squares, where I was able to hit more targets but Mike can throw twice as fast as me.) I played a game called Project Diva which was new to me but has apparently been out for a while, it's a music game with the 4 Playstation keys and you bash them. It was not difficult, though the people before me failed to pass a song somehow.
In the evening, we met up at Yoyogi with people and went to eat yakiniku at Guts Soul, the AYCE place. We had 8 people in the end, with the two of us, and Doug and Ai, and Meridel, and Aaron, and Kozo and Shinsuke. The thing is, I hadn't heard from Shin and he was late, so I told the people at the front, "we have 7 but an 8th may show up in a bit..." So, okay. We got tables and we got food and THEN Shin showed up about 5 mins later and joined us, and we all ate a ton of food. Hooray. Our table was me and Mike and Shin and Kozo, which meant a lot of videogame and baseball talk.
We got kicked out promptly at 9pm after 90 minutes, and in settling the check... we realized they only charged us for 7 people. Whoops! So when we got outside we went to the videogame arcade to change the 1000 yen bill, and then refund 200 yen to each person. And once at the gamecenter, Shin said he'd show me how to make that music game more difficult. So he did. And then Aaron one-upped him by putting some retardedly hard song on another harder level. I dunno, I do not see it as more interesting than Pop'n'Music.
We walked to Shinjuku station after that and all went home. Whee.
Now Mike and I are supposed to be getting ready to go to Nagoya to hang out with Jeff and watch the Dragons play a meaningless game now that they clinched the pennant. Yay...
Friday, we went to Odaiba, but first stopped in Akihabara for lunch at Hamakatsu (where we think they must have changed management because the portions look smaller, and they got my order wrong, and it was just not as good as in the past. I dunno) and Yodobashi, looked at the XBox Kinect stuff (Mike works on the Kinect), and then walked the main drag to Suehirocho station to take the subway to Asakusa.
In Asakusa, rather than go to Sensoji, we just went straight to the boat terminal and got on a boat down the Sumidagawa, to Odaiba eventually (with stops at Hamarikyu and Hinode). The boat was nice and we were able to sit down after Hamarikyu. Then Odaiba... actually, we basically walked from the boat landing to Palette Town, skipping most of the stuff along the way there. In Palette Town we rode one of those little painted hybrid smartcar thingies at the Toyota center (so I still got to do something new even though I'd been to Odaiba a billion times), and we saw the trumpet-playing robot, this time playing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. And we rode the ferris wheel and played games at Leisure Land, and I think that is all we did. (We did both Gashaaaan! and the ball-throwing bingo target thingy with 16 squares, where I was able to hit more targets but Mike can throw twice as fast as me.) I played a game called Project Diva which was new to me but has apparently been out for a while, it's a music game with the 4 Playstation keys and you bash them. It was not difficult, though the people before me failed to pass a song somehow.
In the evening, we met up at Yoyogi with people and went to eat yakiniku at Guts Soul, the AYCE place. We had 8 people in the end, with the two of us, and Doug and Ai, and Meridel, and Aaron, and Kozo and Shinsuke. The thing is, I hadn't heard from Shin and he was late, so I told the people at the front, "we have 7 but an 8th may show up in a bit..." So, okay. We got tables and we got food and THEN Shin showed up about 5 mins later and joined us, and we all ate a ton of food. Hooray. Our table was me and Mike and Shin and Kozo, which meant a lot of videogame and baseball talk.
We got kicked out promptly at 9pm after 90 minutes, and in settling the check... we realized they only charged us for 7 people. Whoops! So when we got outside we went to the videogame arcade to change the 1000 yen bill, and then refund 200 yen to each person. And once at the gamecenter, Shin said he'd show me how to make that music game more difficult. So he did. And then Aaron one-upped him by putting some retardedly hard song on another harder level. I dunno, I do not see it as more interesting than Pop'n'Music.
We walked to Shinjuku station after that and all went home. Whee.
Now Mike and I are supposed to be getting ready to go to Nagoya to hang out with Jeff and watch the Dragons play a meaningless game now that they clinched the pennant. Yay...
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*giggling*
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