So, the Dragons had to go and sweep the entirety of the CL playoffs, which means there were no games today or tomorrow. It worked out ok in the end; today I got to hang out with ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alibash finally! and tomorrow I'll go hang out with Pau again.
I just tried to go to Lawson's to get my money back for my tickets, ( and was unable to, though hopefully I can during the daytime...? )
Anyway, last night after work all I did was come home and watch the Dragons win the game and then I went up to Tonden and got yummy food which I ended up splattering all over my clothes because I'm a big klutz. Turns out Tonden is like 3 blocks from that batting cage I saw the other day, and I'm still too scared to go in. While I was at dinner, depressed about not knowing what to do with my Sunday, I emailedalibash on a whim to see if he was free, and amazingly, he was!
So, today I went down to Hiyoshi station -- which took me like an hour and a half, it's down near Yokohama -- and met up with Krispy, and we went to what was essentially his Keio campus (Yagami, the engineering school)'s version of Carnival. There were no rides, but there were TONS of food booths, and a big stage, and a lot of stuff for kids to do in a big playground, and inside the buildings there were things like a haunted house, and various exhibitions of stuff. I got to see cool robots (which I didn't get pictures of), and a gigantic model train set, and some various other things with Keio clubs, and we watched some kids launching plastic bottle rockets, and Krispy showed me the lab he works in. After wandering through the festival for a while and getting scared off by the overly genki food booth people (who literally would run up to us and shove a cardboard sign in our faces of their booth's food and yell something like "YAKITORI, IKAGA DESUKAAAAAA?" or whatever at us), we wandered back to Hiyoshi station and walked around a bit in the shopping streets (which were, btw, awesome, I love how that area is organized).
We went to an arcade for a while -- now that I think about it I probably met Krispy playing DDR at CMU like 7 years ago -- and he played Pop'n Battle with me, which was a lot of fun. AND, the arcade had a Pop'n plushie UFO catcher!! I swear that in all this time I'd never actually seen one, just seen the plushies in catalogs or on ebay or whatever. Holy crap! Of course it was nigh impossible, and Krispy even saw some of his friends at the arcade and asked for help, and the guy was like "oh, this is a tough one. You have to keep shoving it towards the entry... there's no way you can do this in less than 500 yen." Sigh. They also had a IIDX figurine UFO catcher, no joke, which I didn't even remotely try playing with.
After that we got ramen at a place called Rasta Ramen (well, Rasuta). I got the "rasutamen", which was basically a gigantic bowl of ramen with nori and a hardboiled egg and some meat and some spinach and all this stuff. It was huuuuuuge. Krispy ate about half of his. I ate my entire bowl, since I hadn't had a real meal yet that day. Then when we went outside, he showed me how to use the GPS on my cellphone, wheee! Now I will can stop worrying about where the hell I am when I ride my bike!
We wandered to where Krispy lives, in Motosumiyoshi. He has a nice apartment (not much bigger than mine, but obviously newer construction) with real furniture, which makes me jealous, I want a real desk and bed and everything dammit. We hung out and played computer games for a while, mostly Lex the Bookworm or whatever it's called, solving word puzzles. He showed me the game Portal, but much like other first-person games, it made me feel really dizzy and kind of sick, so I couldn't really play it. Oops.
By then it was around 8 and I wanted to get home to do laundry. We went back towards the station and I got to meet Krispy's girlfriend Sophie for a little while, as she had just arrived at the station. She seems really nice (and apparently speaks many many languages), and maybe sometime later we can all hang out somewhere more central like Shibuya or Shinjuku! We'll see.
I got on a train at Motosumiyoshi at 8:28pm and I got into Warabi at like 9:47pm. I rode my bike home, put all of my clothes in my backpack suitcase and went to the laundromat and did laundry. I sorted baseball cards while waiting for it to be done, which was kind of funny. And then I came home, and then I went to Lawson's to try to get my money back, and that's about full circle.
NOW THE REST OF THIS IS A PHOTO POST WHEEEEEE YES, THERE'S EVEN ONE PICTURE OF ME IN THERE I SWEAR
( A few photos of Keio, Hiyoshi, UFOs, etc )
Hey, funny, I just realized I didn't take any pictures of Krispy at all. I was thinking that I've been notoriously bad at taking photos of friends since I came to Japan, with the exception of Kat and Jesse. Weird.
alibash finally! and tomorrow I'll go hang out with Pau again.I just tried to go to Lawson's to get my money back for my tickets, ( and was unable to, though hopefully I can during the daytime...? )
Anyway, last night after work all I did was come home and watch the Dragons win the game and then I went up to Tonden and got yummy food which I ended up splattering all over my clothes because I'm a big klutz. Turns out Tonden is like 3 blocks from that batting cage I saw the other day, and I'm still too scared to go in. While I was at dinner, depressed about not knowing what to do with my Sunday, I emailed
alibash on a whim to see if he was free, and amazingly, he was!So, today I went down to Hiyoshi station -- which took me like an hour and a half, it's down near Yokohama -- and met up with Krispy, and we went to what was essentially his Keio campus (Yagami, the engineering school)'s version of Carnival. There were no rides, but there were TONS of food booths, and a big stage, and a lot of stuff for kids to do in a big playground, and inside the buildings there were things like a haunted house, and various exhibitions of stuff. I got to see cool robots (which I didn't get pictures of), and a gigantic model train set, and some various other things with Keio clubs, and we watched some kids launching plastic bottle rockets, and Krispy showed me the lab he works in. After wandering through the festival for a while and getting scared off by the overly genki food booth people (who literally would run up to us and shove a cardboard sign in our faces of their booth's food and yell something like "YAKITORI, IKAGA DESUKAAAAAA?" or whatever at us), we wandered back to Hiyoshi station and walked around a bit in the shopping streets (which were, btw, awesome, I love how that area is organized).
We went to an arcade for a while -- now that I think about it I probably met Krispy playing DDR at CMU like 7 years ago -- and he played Pop'n Battle with me, which was a lot of fun. AND, the arcade had a Pop'n plushie UFO catcher!! I swear that in all this time I'd never actually seen one, just seen the plushies in catalogs or on ebay or whatever. Holy crap! Of course it was nigh impossible, and Krispy even saw some of his friends at the arcade and asked for help, and the guy was like "oh, this is a tough one. You have to keep shoving it towards the entry... there's no way you can do this in less than 500 yen." Sigh. They also had a IIDX figurine UFO catcher, no joke, which I didn't even remotely try playing with.
After that we got ramen at a place called Rasta Ramen (well, Rasuta). I got the "rasutamen", which was basically a gigantic bowl of ramen with nori and a hardboiled egg and some meat and some spinach and all this stuff. It was huuuuuuge. Krispy ate about half of his. I ate my entire bowl, since I hadn't had a real meal yet that day. Then when we went outside, he showed me how to use the GPS on my cellphone, wheee! Now I will can stop worrying about where the hell I am when I ride my bike!
We wandered to where Krispy lives, in Motosumiyoshi. He has a nice apartment (not much bigger than mine, but obviously newer construction) with real furniture, which makes me jealous, I want a real desk and bed and everything dammit. We hung out and played computer games for a while, mostly Lex the Bookworm or whatever it's called, solving word puzzles. He showed me the game Portal, but much like other first-person games, it made me feel really dizzy and kind of sick, so I couldn't really play it. Oops.
By then it was around 8 and I wanted to get home to do laundry. We went back towards the station and I got to meet Krispy's girlfriend Sophie for a little while, as she had just arrived at the station. She seems really nice (and apparently speaks many many languages), and maybe sometime later we can all hang out somewhere more central like Shibuya or Shinjuku! We'll see.
I got on a train at Motosumiyoshi at 8:28pm and I got into Warabi at like 9:47pm. I rode my bike home, put all of my clothes in my backpack suitcase and went to the laundromat and did laundry. I sorted baseball cards while waiting for it to be done, which was kind of funny. And then I came home, and then I went to Lawson's to try to get my money back, and that's about full circle.
NOW THE REST OF THIS IS A PHOTO POST WHEEEEEE YES, THERE'S EVEN ONE PICTURE OF ME IN THERE I SWEAR
( A few photos of Keio, Hiyoshi, UFOs, etc )
Hey, funny, I just realized I didn't take any pictures of Krispy at all. I was thinking that I've been notoriously bad at taking photos of friends since I came to Japan, with the exception of Kat and Jesse. Weird.
