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Rain sucks.
Wow, what a day.
Went down to Yokohama in the early afternoon. The original plan was to go see Baystars vs. Seibu with Kohei, but he mailed me when I was out about halfway there that the baseball game was cancelled due to rain (not unexpectedly), and that he'd be a little late. So I wandered around the mall with the Baystars store... if I'd planned better I woulda bought some advance Baystars tickets but in all honesty I'm not sure whether it's a big deal (I doubt the Chunichi series next weekend will sell out, and I don't know if it makes sense for me to go see Hanshin at Yokohama or not). While waiting for Kohei to show up, I went to the Baystars store, played the gatchapon capsules for pin badges, and OMFG I got Kizuka (!!!) and Miura as my first two (and when I came back later I got Nishi and Takasaki). Wow! The Baystars interleague replica jerseys are on sale now and I can't decide whether it's worth getting one. They're really nice, but...
Kohei showed up and we decided to go to Chinatown for lunch. Except it was raining like hell. I guess Chinatown is kind of neat, but there's this aspect of "hey, it's the part of town with kanji everywhere" that I usually enjoy about Chinatowns in the US, that is lost on me here because, well, all parts of town (except Roppongi maybe) have kanji everywhere. For lack of any particular idea we just went into one of the random Chinese restaurants that had a set lunch. For 1500 yen, you got a whole bunch of random stuff, like dumplings and egg rolls and soup and fried rice and yakisoba and some vegetables and whatever the hell it all was. The food was good, a little odd, but good. We were on the second floor so it was nice and quiet to just hang out and talk for a while.
Then, I dunno, we walked to the waterfront, which royally sucked with all of the rain, but I could see how it might be pretty neat otherwise. After a lot of walking, we ended up at some Akarenga red building plaza, where there was a Port City festival going on. The first five ports of Japan to open were Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hakodate, Niigata, and Kobe. Or something like that. So there was food and stuff from all of those cities. Kohei tried some togarashi beer -- basically beer made with Chinese red peppers. I tried a sip. It was disgusting. I think it also made my stomach hurt. There wasn't anything particularly wonderful at the food tents. We went around some outdoor tents and got dragged into one tent where they gave us free yogurt and then tried to tell us all about some grocery delivery service. I ate yogurt and pretended not to understand, and Kohei harrassed the saleslady about whether it was a pyramid scheme or not ("what, I join and I get cheaper yogurt? and if I make other people join we all get cheap yogurt? huh?"). I dunno. Pretty weird.
We went into the akarenga mall, where Kohei finally found the umbrella he wanted, a small folding one. I had been harrassing him the whole time about all of these random umbrellas we saw, since he kept complaining about the crappy one he was carrying. Also in the akarenga mall they had a Takuro Ishii signed interleague jersey (!!!) with a sign explaining that the Baystars chose the particular jersey design and color based on the red brick building. I thought that was pretty interesting.
We randomly found a Japanese Emigrant Museum after that and looked through it. Basically, it was just all about Japanese people who moved to other countries. Apparently there are a LOT of them in Brazil in particular. It was pretty interesting.
We wound up at this big mall by Sakuragicho after that, and sat outside at a bench talking, so he could smoke and so I could put my feet up for a while. We debated seeing a movie but the timing was kind of bad. While wandering through the mall, Krispy called, and it turned out he and Jay were relatively nearby, so they came there and met up with us and the four of us got dinner at some buffet place with lots of weird Japanese food that Kohei recommended. Jay was really happy because there was a TON of vegetarian stuff there, but I mostly ended up eating pasta and karaage (ugh... now every time I see karaage I think of the Marines pitcher Karakawa). There was also wacky soy milk purin for dessert, among other things (like yummy mochi, and weird tomatoes). After we were done dinner, I looked in the arcade at the UFO catchers and won yet another Stitch on my first try ;) I really gotta stop playing those but...
Kohei went home after that, and then Krispy and Jay and I did purikura! It was really funny. And if it wasn't a convoluted method needed to get the pictures on my phone I would show you what they looked like, but alas.
I went home after that too. What sucked is there was some problem or accident or whatever on the train tracks, so instead of getting on the train at Sakuragicho at 22:50 and getting off at Warabi at 00:04, I got on the train at 22:50 and then we sat at fucking Kawasaki station for HALF AN HOUR and I didn't arrive back here until like 12:40am. That sucked.
Rain sucks. It shouldn't be allowed to rain on my days off from work.
Went down to Yokohama in the early afternoon. The original plan was to go see Baystars vs. Seibu with Kohei, but he mailed me when I was out about halfway there that the baseball game was cancelled due to rain (not unexpectedly), and that he'd be a little late. So I wandered around the mall with the Baystars store... if I'd planned better I woulda bought some advance Baystars tickets but in all honesty I'm not sure whether it's a big deal (I doubt the Chunichi series next weekend will sell out, and I don't know if it makes sense for me to go see Hanshin at Yokohama or not). While waiting for Kohei to show up, I went to the Baystars store, played the gatchapon capsules for pin badges, and OMFG I got Kizuka (!!!) and Miura as my first two (and when I came back later I got Nishi and Takasaki). Wow! The Baystars interleague replica jerseys are on sale now and I can't decide whether it's worth getting one. They're really nice, but...
Kohei showed up and we decided to go to Chinatown for lunch. Except it was raining like hell. I guess Chinatown is kind of neat, but there's this aspect of "hey, it's the part of town with kanji everywhere" that I usually enjoy about Chinatowns in the US, that is lost on me here because, well, all parts of town (except Roppongi maybe) have kanji everywhere. For lack of any particular idea we just went into one of the random Chinese restaurants that had a set lunch. For 1500 yen, you got a whole bunch of random stuff, like dumplings and egg rolls and soup and fried rice and yakisoba and some vegetables and whatever the hell it all was. The food was good, a little odd, but good. We were on the second floor so it was nice and quiet to just hang out and talk for a while.
Then, I dunno, we walked to the waterfront, which royally sucked with all of the rain, but I could see how it might be pretty neat otherwise. After a lot of walking, we ended up at some Akarenga red building plaza, where there was a Port City festival going on. The first five ports of Japan to open were Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hakodate, Niigata, and Kobe. Or something like that. So there was food and stuff from all of those cities. Kohei tried some togarashi beer -- basically beer made with Chinese red peppers. I tried a sip. It was disgusting. I think it also made my stomach hurt. There wasn't anything particularly wonderful at the food tents. We went around some outdoor tents and got dragged into one tent where they gave us free yogurt and then tried to tell us all about some grocery delivery service. I ate yogurt and pretended not to understand, and Kohei harrassed the saleslady about whether it was a pyramid scheme or not ("what, I join and I get cheaper yogurt? and if I make other people join we all get cheap yogurt? huh?"). I dunno. Pretty weird.
We went into the akarenga mall, where Kohei finally found the umbrella he wanted, a small folding one. I had been harrassing him the whole time about all of these random umbrellas we saw, since he kept complaining about the crappy one he was carrying. Also in the akarenga mall they had a Takuro Ishii signed interleague jersey (!!!) with a sign explaining that the Baystars chose the particular jersey design and color based on the red brick building. I thought that was pretty interesting.
We randomly found a Japanese Emigrant Museum after that and looked through it. Basically, it was just all about Japanese people who moved to other countries. Apparently there are a LOT of them in Brazil in particular. It was pretty interesting.
We wound up at this big mall by Sakuragicho after that, and sat outside at a bench talking, so he could smoke and so I could put my feet up for a while. We debated seeing a movie but the timing was kind of bad. While wandering through the mall, Krispy called, and it turned out he and Jay were relatively nearby, so they came there and met up with us and the four of us got dinner at some buffet place with lots of weird Japanese food that Kohei recommended. Jay was really happy because there was a TON of vegetarian stuff there, but I mostly ended up eating pasta and karaage (ugh... now every time I see karaage I think of the Marines pitcher Karakawa). There was also wacky soy milk purin for dessert, among other things (like yummy mochi, and weird tomatoes). After we were done dinner, I looked in the arcade at the UFO catchers and won yet another Stitch on my first try ;) I really gotta stop playing those but...
Kohei went home after that, and then Krispy and Jay and I did purikura! It was really funny. And if it wasn't a convoluted method needed to get the pictures on my phone I would show you what they looked like, but alas.
I went home after that too. What sucked is there was some problem or accident or whatever on the train tracks, so instead of getting on the train at Sakuragicho at 22:50 and getting off at Warabi at 00:04, I got on the train at 22:50 and then we sat at fucking Kawasaki station for HALF AN HOUR and I didn't arrive back here until like 12:40am. That sucked.
Rain sucks. It shouldn't be allowed to rain on my days off from work.
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I don't know what you should see. I'm a baseball and trains nerd.
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Also, it'd be fun to come visit you! I'd love to see cool stuff from the point of view of someone who actually lives there. Plus, I want to see you play Pop'n, it sounds like you're ridiculous.
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