Today was good… not as cool as yesterday though.

In another “mini” city of Tokyo called Harajuku. In this town, only on Sunday, several Japanese girls and boys participate in Cosplay. The kids dress up as gothic brides, nannies, babies, other gothic outfits, or as their favorite anime character. It really was a shame… It was raining really hard here and there were two or three of these kids out and about, but nothing like what the locals told us about.

On a completely unrelated note, you should see how these people use their cell phones here. They’re never not using them, they always have their heads down typing away at some text-message; it’s amazing that they don’t crash into anything.

There really wasn’t anything exciting today, but we did find out that these people make “French Bread” that would put those snobby Frenchies to shame (I hope they loose the World Cup, GO JAPAN!).

This evening we went to dinner with a friend of my dad’s, I won’t even try to put his name here, if I did it would be spelled so poorly that you would think that I was just hitting the keyboard with my forehead.

Dinner was… interesting. First we had a Shashimi (raw) chicken that had probably been butchered minutes after we ordered. Then was the fried fished, followed by Shashimi of tuna, then Shabu-shabu. For those of you that don’t know, Shabu-Shabu is a type of cooking that is done in a community boiling pot, with veggies, tofu, and meat; ours was a special pork from the area that my dad’s friend’s wife, Megumi (Meg) is from. Now that was some good stuff. After the Shabu-Shabu, we were served some frozen custard of some kind, it was really good, but I really don’t know what it is, if there’s one thing that I’ve learned; it’s to never ask what you’re eating until after you’ve finished eating.

Tomorrow I am venturing off into Japan alone while my dad works, wish me luck

Cheers

Aengus no Kitsune