The night aaron left i went to see my friend play a show with his band. I think i got back from taking aaron to the airport around 7pm so i got ready and headed out. it took me forever to find the place and i had to walk down all these dark and deserted streets. but after an hour being lost and another hour walking i found tha place and there was this huge brawl going outside. it was a little bit of a seedy, divey kinda place and there were all these guys outside standing in the parking lot and on the street in front of the club yelling and making fighting looks and some girl was crying and everyone was completely ignoring me so finally i just walked in... cause well i had a ticket so you know. when i got in i thought i had missed them but then i saw one of the regulars from the red spanky and he directed me to where tach and cap were standing at the front watching and it was actually Tommy (one of the bartenders at the red spanky) drumming. he was really good but i only got to hear the last two songs cause i came too late. after we went to junpu ( the restaurant owned by the same person as the red spanky) where i stayed until late late late.
i watched two movies in the month of september. first i watched batman and it was soooooo good! it was so much better than the other new batman and it was up to par with the original batman movie with jack nickleson as the joker. and heath ledger was soooo good as the joker! really he made the movie. i probably wouldn't have really liked it that much without him. and i had very high expectations because i am in love with jack nickleson as the joker. anyways i know uncle malky didn't really like it that much but i did. i called home about it. next i saw sex and the city which had really pretty dresses and other clothes and stuff in it so i liked that.
one time i went out on a wandering around expidition and i went much farther down the arcade under the train tracks than i usually do and it was soo cool! there was this exotic pet store and it had a huge tortoise fenced in this little space by corrugated iron (i felt kinda bad for him cause he was trying to climb his way out but the walls were to slippery and slidey) and there were these mouse kangaroos in a glass case tht had really long legs and big feet just like kangaroos and they were hopping around. there was a chameoleon lazing on a tree stub but i didn't see him change colours i guess cause there was really no need and there were all these tropical rainforest tree frongs that were bright green with red and blue and black stripes. and there were two porky pines all curled up and sleeping snug as bugs in their little auqarium. it was really cool but i felt kind of sad for the animals. and a little down the way there was another pet store with all these puppies and a few kittens. they were really really cute but i always feel kind of sad when i go to pet stores because they have to live in those little glass box display cases that are so small and suffocating and i think they must be going crazy cause i would if i had to be in a little glass box all the time and sometimes they look really sad and depressed. next i went to this store called the road runner that had all this motoerbike stuff everywhere and the guy talked to me in english for a while and he was really nice and they had really soft sweat shirts. then i went to a hat store where there was this really nice lady that spoke english really well and i talked to her for a long time. and before i left she gave me this little change purse that she had made from her store (she makes all the hats herself it"s pretty spiffy). then when i left the arcade i went to this used clothing store where somehow the guy new exactly where i worked and all about okubo amity and stuff so we talked for a while and it was cool. all in all it was a pretty good day and i was quite happy.
Sonia came saturday the 20th and we spent the next three days in tokyo. (i had a long weekend).
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
August
August was spent with mom and aaron.
They arrived August 9th and I took the last shinkansen to meet them at the hotel in Shinagawa. It was quite swanky... there was a movie theatre and an auqarium that we never saw inside the building which was quite large. I got a little lost finding it... i went to the other prince hotel which is up a hill in the woods, but it all worked out. it was lots of fun to see them for the first time in like 6 months. aaron seemed bigger, taller that is. i arrived late... around 1pm... but we stayed up to open presents (very one-sided; i got all the presents) and then we shuffled off to bed.
On the first day mom woke us up much to early and we took the subway to harajuku. we walked the empty streets of shibuya and harajuku and went shopping along little alleys and big boulevards. we had lunch in an italian restaurant with a view of the city where we had a very nice waiter and a delicious salad. me and aaron took pictures with batman in this big store with an awsome comic book floor and winding staircase. then we went to the big park beside harajuku station. mom thought it looked more like the jungle than the jungle did. i wanted to see all the cool kids that hang out there on sundays but i couldn't find them and mom and aaron wouldn't let me follow the rockabillys i saw going on a picnic. but later when we were leaving the park we saw some kids dressed up as superhereos and aaron took pictures with them. and then the streets were a see of people. we found some of the stores that aaron and ate kakigori with blue syrup. we went to shibuya where it was busy and i lead them down the route where i had walked before. we went back to the hotel and mom went to bed while me and aaron went out. we went back to shibuya and searched for something happening but the streets were so quiet we decided to just go home before we missed the last train.
On the second day we walked to the imperial palace where they wouldn't let us in, got lost trying to get to ginza and then found it, found the perfect hat that cost $200, and made a split. aaron was bored of mom and mom was bored of aaron so we went to shibuya and made a deal to meet back at the big starbucks overlooking the big intersection in a couple of hours. aaron did some touring by himself and me and mom walked the perfect little road from shibuya to harajuku and i decided if i ever lived a perfect life in tokyo it's where i'd want to be. we stopped at a little fruit vendor and got scrumptious peaches and met aaron back at starbucks right on time. for dinner we went to the world of tasty delights under the station and mom got a bento box and i got some sushi and aaron got some gyoza and aaron took us up this very long and very winding uphill road to a little ledge where we sat and ate our food. we dragged our sleepy souls home.
On the third day we got out too late and went to the fishmarket where it was all over (all the big fish auctioning that is), but we still got to look around the little market. we stopped at shinjuku where we walked up to the top of a bridge and looked at all the tall buildings, but i don't think it's nearly as cool during the day as at night. poor mom and aaron i dragged them around every inch of tokyo and they were so tired. i took them to this area that i read was supposed to be very artsy which took a quite a long time to get to. we walked around for a little while and it was very helter skelter and cool, but i was trying to find this temple with an underground passage that i had read about and everyone we asked had never even heard about it. but just as i was doubting its existance a japanese girl that spoke english and her mom told us how to get to the area it was supposed to be in (although they too had never heard of the temple) and it turned out to be on like the other side of the moon. but mom and aaron were good sports even though they were hot and tired and we hopped two trains to get there. when we got there it seemed to be the middle of nowhere compared to the very busy tokyo we had been in before... it was all very residential. the people at the station seemed to know faintly where we were going and gave us directions and after lots more walking and a few wrong turns and asking around we found the temple. it was itsy bitsy. no wonder no one had heard of it. i don't think anyone except the people who lived next to it knew about it. i'm pretty sure we are some of the only tourists that it has ever seen. but it was awsome. the temple was just like other ones but the passage way was soooo dark and scary. the stone walls were narrow, growing narrower in places, and cold and it was pitch black, so dark it was like light never existed and you wondered if you were still alive. i got so scared and paniced a little, or a lot, and wanted to back out but aaron pushed us on. it reminded me of the nancy drew i was reading where they were fighting with these bad guys in a cave and they tied the bad guy up and left him in the dark cave to go crazy which reminded me of this other story i read about how you go crazy of thirst without water in the dessert and die suffocated by the sand. in one section it opened up into a room with eighty buddha statues that were quite creepy looking. it was really cool. it wasn't a very long tunnel but it was pretty much all i could take. i wonder about the monks that dug the tunnel in the dark. it was pretty crazy but very very amazing. after that mom took her weary feet home and me and aaron went back to shibuya. we walked the little street from shibuya to harajuku that me and mom had wandered the day before and i took aaron to see a spiffy gold watch that we promptly bought. aaron wanted to find the alife store so we asked this guy in a little shop and he was sooo nice. he drew us the whole elaborate map with all these other stores that he thought aaron would like in the area. but we still weren't sure where we were going so aaron asked these kids that we thought might know where it was and they were soooo sweet. i think they were just shopping around and they probably weren't even going where we wanted to go but they looked at our map and took us all the way to the store which was a little walk. they were so nice. aaron made friends and they all posed for a picture in front on the alife store. i snapped a few before the told us we weren't allowed to take pictures of the store. they were so cute. the store was pretty cool and they had these really cool shoes but they didn't fit aaron and i convinced him that it was just crazy to get shoes that are too small for you no matter how cool they looked. after that we wondered around harajuku for a while and found this other store that aaron wanted to go back to (the shoes there fell through too) and then we went back to the batman store and chatted for a while which was very nice and at last we took our beat feet home.
On the fourth day we went to Nikko. Nikko is a little town in the mountains just a short train ride out of tokyo. It rained and it was beautiful. Its a city of shrines. shrines, and temples, and pagodas, and whereas Japan's temples tend to be on the more discrete and subdued side, these are ornamental and decorated and gaudy and beautiful to the extreme. and its all surrounded by forest. the trees and huge; you look up and they go up up up and never seem to stop. it"s amazing. we walked up a thousand bazillion stairs to get to this emperor's (i think?) tombstone who the whole thing was built for by his son (or something like that). Unfortuneatly our camera finally ran out of batteries because i had forgot the charger at home and the disposable pictures we took apparently didn't come out at all, but fortunatly it didn't start to rain very hard until we had seem most of it. Unfortunatly we didn't have time to see the onsens (hot springs that are supposed to be really beautiful), but fortunatly we did get to have some yummy japanese food at this little restaurant on our way back to the train station where we got ice cream while we waited for the train. We headed home and i think this might have been the day that me and aaron decided to go out for some japanese food at a restaurant across the street from our hotel (mom was too tired), although it very possibly could have been another night, i'm not quite sure. we went to a ramen (noodles) restaurant where aaron got the ramen and i had cold udong (they give you a plate of thick white noodles cold and you dip them in hot (temperature) sauce to eat. it was very delicious.
On the fifth day our reservations at hotel shinagawa ran out and we shoved off to Yokohama which is the next city over and the second largest in Japan. We settled in at our hotel with a rooftop pool (with mom it was all the best, whereas with me its all rooms the size of yor closet) and aaron decided to stay in and play with the computer while me and mom went to Chinatown. Yokohama's Chinatown is the biggest in Japan and it's pretty cool. There's lots of neet little roads and funny stores and i got one of those really yummy fried seaseme balls with red bean paste inside but I still love my Chinatown in Kobe better even though it's much smaller, probably just because it's mine and i go there all the time and it feels like home. Then we walked along this road that seemed very European and fancy and headed home where we found aaron still in the room (he hadn't left except to get burger king) and i think maybe that was the night we went out for dinner at this japanese restaurant where they didn't have english menues but they did have a display case of food on the menu so every time we wanted to order something i dragged the confused waiters outdie to look at their window and point out what we wanted.
On the sixth (and final full) day we went to Kamakura (which is another short day trip from Tokyo/Yokohama on the train). It was a beautiful and hot day and it was perfect for going to the beach, so we did. We went to the beach and it was packed. Mom sat in a cafe and had a drink while me and aaron went swimming. The water was sooo warm, it was like a bathtub! Aaron wanted to stay at the beach all day, but we dragged him away to go find the big buddha. If you walk a little ways through the small beach town you come to a street lined with all these little antique shops that's really cute and if you keep walking you come to where the big buddha is. It's really big and if you pay like thirty cents extra you get to go inside the buddha which is made of copper i believe (it's the metal that turns green when it oxidizes or gets wet or something), unfortuneatly you can't go up the stairs to the head and it's really hot and stuffy inside. After that aaron bought some ninja stars and we had purple potato/green tea ice cream swirl and we went back to the beach where aaron took another dip. We walked our sticky sea salty selves home and took the train back to the hotel where me and aaron took showers and got ready for a night out. By this time it was Friday night, and we figured friday night must be a good night- much better than sunday night- to go out because it's internationally known as the night to go out. We got ourselves ready and aaron found a place to go on the internet and we took the train back into tokyo. in shibuya we found the place after a little while searching, a few people asked, and a couple of beers. we went pretty early so we walked around 'till we thought it was late enough to go in and then we payed the $35 cover charge to enter the nearly empty bar... we were the only ones there excpet for some british guy and like one or two other people. The music was good so i think it would have been a success if people had come, but as it was they didn't... anyways we bailed around one or two and went to a starbucks close to the station. according to aaron i passed out (my recollection of the incident is pretty weak) pretty soundly and he had a strange sleep and passed most of the night watching randoms in the shop. we rose with the first morning lights and caught the first train home... it must been around 5 or 6. we got home and slept for a while.
Day seven was our last morning in Tokyo area and although I really wanted to go to this next place i had read about just outside tokyo where there is this temple with a cave and they give you a candle at the entrance and inside there are all these carvings on the walls and statues and stuff and it sounds really haunting and amazing and cool i felt sick so instead we just hopped the shinkansen home.
The next day we went to Osaka to go to the aquarium which was really really cool! I should of known it would be so busy though because it was a school holiday, but i didn't think and it was packed to the brim and unmoveable. But when we did get to move we also got to see things like these huge manta rays, and a really big shark, and lots of really beautiful jelly fish, and jellyish octopus that suction cup walked themselves along the window panes, and these really cool huge spidery looking artic crabs that were like dinosaurs from your imagination or something incredible like that. After we explored the auqarium i got lost taking mom and aaron to the area where i like to shop and i think they probably got pretty fed up with me always getting them lost and we made it and i showed aaron the bape store. then we went to namba which is bigger than life and had dinner in the arcade and headed back home.
On the last day of my vacation we pretty much just lazed around the house, but in the evening we went to Rokko mountain and we went up in this elevator trolly car thing and looked at the view of the city and we could see all the way to osaka.
And then it was back to work for me and mom and aaron went about their merry way an went to kyoto and hiroshima and nara and all these places without me.
Mom left on the 23rd (possibly?) and me and aaron had the weekend to do stuff. On Sunday we went to the beach with mamiko and her friends. At first i don't think aaron had much fun 'cause no one could really talk to us, but then he made friends with Tommy and other people tried to talk to him in broken English and he made friends with the kids and we played with them and went swimming and he went on the jet ski and tried wake boarding for a little bit before it broke so i think he eneded up having a pretty good time. And on Monday we went to this waterpark somewhere outside of Osaka. We had to get up at like 6am to take the train to Osaka and meet Ayako and Chie and then take a bus for like two and a half hours to this waterpark. It was rainy an kind of cold but we had fun anyway. Ayako was so cute, she was so excited. We went on waterslides and warmed ourselves up in the hot spring baths had lunch and played some more and then it was time to go back so we hopped on the bus. Once we got back to sannomiya we went a little restaurant/bar with hundreds of polariods stuck up all over the walls and ceilings and everywhere, it was really cool. I liked the place a lot. Chie's boyfriend (now fiance) came and met us and his friend and we all had drinks and ate good food and it was nice. During the week i went to work and aaron went to places like sannomiya and osaka to do what he could do and on Thursday night I think it was I met Aaron and Ayako and Chie and a bunch of their friends in Sannomiya for dinner and we went out to karaoke. Unfortunately, Aaron got sick that day and was sick for the next two days. Poor boy, he had a fever and I went to get him fever medicine at the pharmacy where i mimed a fever with gestures and key use of the word atsui (hot) and he had terrible stomach aches although I couldn't mime that so i got mamiko to write it down for me and i took it to the pharmacy guy who i call my friend in my head. but luckily he got better by Sunday morning so he felt fine for the plane which is really good because being sick on the plane is the worst. So on Sunday i took Aaron to the airport and that was the end of his adventure in Japan.
They arrived August 9th and I took the last shinkansen to meet them at the hotel in Shinagawa. It was quite swanky... there was a movie theatre and an auqarium that we never saw inside the building which was quite large. I got a little lost finding it... i went to the other prince hotel which is up a hill in the woods, but it all worked out. it was lots of fun to see them for the first time in like 6 months. aaron seemed bigger, taller that is. i arrived late... around 1pm... but we stayed up to open presents (very one-sided; i got all the presents) and then we shuffled off to bed.
On the first day mom woke us up much to early and we took the subway to harajuku. we walked the empty streets of shibuya and harajuku and went shopping along little alleys and big boulevards. we had lunch in an italian restaurant with a view of the city where we had a very nice waiter and a delicious salad. me and aaron took pictures with batman in this big store with an awsome comic book floor and winding staircase. then we went to the big park beside harajuku station. mom thought it looked more like the jungle than the jungle did. i wanted to see all the cool kids that hang out there on sundays but i couldn't find them and mom and aaron wouldn't let me follow the rockabillys i saw going on a picnic. but later when we were leaving the park we saw some kids dressed up as superhereos and aaron took pictures with them. and then the streets were a see of people. we found some of the stores that aaron and ate kakigori with blue syrup. we went to shibuya where it was busy and i lead them down the route where i had walked before. we went back to the hotel and mom went to bed while me and aaron went out. we went back to shibuya and searched for something happening but the streets were so quiet we decided to just go home before we missed the last train.
On the second day we walked to the imperial palace where they wouldn't let us in, got lost trying to get to ginza and then found it, found the perfect hat that cost $200, and made a split. aaron was bored of mom and mom was bored of aaron so we went to shibuya and made a deal to meet back at the big starbucks overlooking the big intersection in a couple of hours. aaron did some touring by himself and me and mom walked the perfect little road from shibuya to harajuku and i decided if i ever lived a perfect life in tokyo it's where i'd want to be. we stopped at a little fruit vendor and got scrumptious peaches and met aaron back at starbucks right on time. for dinner we went to the world of tasty delights under the station and mom got a bento box and i got some sushi and aaron got some gyoza and aaron took us up this very long and very winding uphill road to a little ledge where we sat and ate our food. we dragged our sleepy souls home.
On the third day we got out too late and went to the fishmarket where it was all over (all the big fish auctioning that is), but we still got to look around the little market. we stopped at shinjuku where we walked up to the top of a bridge and looked at all the tall buildings, but i don't think it's nearly as cool during the day as at night. poor mom and aaron i dragged them around every inch of tokyo and they were so tired. i took them to this area that i read was supposed to be very artsy which took a quite a long time to get to. we walked around for a little while and it was very helter skelter and cool, but i was trying to find this temple with an underground passage that i had read about and everyone we asked had never even heard about it. but just as i was doubting its existance a japanese girl that spoke english and her mom told us how to get to the area it was supposed to be in (although they too had never heard of the temple) and it turned out to be on like the other side of the moon. but mom and aaron were good sports even though they were hot and tired and we hopped two trains to get there. when we got there it seemed to be the middle of nowhere compared to the very busy tokyo we had been in before... it was all very residential. the people at the station seemed to know faintly where we were going and gave us directions and after lots more walking and a few wrong turns and asking around we found the temple. it was itsy bitsy. no wonder no one had heard of it. i don't think anyone except the people who lived next to it knew about it. i'm pretty sure we are some of the only tourists that it has ever seen. but it was awsome. the temple was just like other ones but the passage way was soooo dark and scary. the stone walls were narrow, growing narrower in places, and cold and it was pitch black, so dark it was like light never existed and you wondered if you were still alive. i got so scared and paniced a little, or a lot, and wanted to back out but aaron pushed us on. it reminded me of the nancy drew i was reading where they were fighting with these bad guys in a cave and they tied the bad guy up and left him in the dark cave to go crazy which reminded me of this other story i read about how you go crazy of thirst without water in the dessert and die suffocated by the sand. in one section it opened up into a room with eighty buddha statues that were quite creepy looking. it was really cool. it wasn't a very long tunnel but it was pretty much all i could take. i wonder about the monks that dug the tunnel in the dark. it was pretty crazy but very very amazing. after that mom took her weary feet home and me and aaron went back to shibuya. we walked the little street from shibuya to harajuku that me and mom had wandered the day before and i took aaron to see a spiffy gold watch that we promptly bought. aaron wanted to find the alife store so we asked this guy in a little shop and he was sooo nice. he drew us the whole elaborate map with all these other stores that he thought aaron would like in the area. but we still weren't sure where we were going so aaron asked these kids that we thought might know where it was and they were soooo sweet. i think they were just shopping around and they probably weren't even going where we wanted to go but they looked at our map and took us all the way to the store which was a little walk. they were so nice. aaron made friends and they all posed for a picture in front on the alife store. i snapped a few before the told us we weren't allowed to take pictures of the store. they were so cute. the store was pretty cool and they had these really cool shoes but they didn't fit aaron and i convinced him that it was just crazy to get shoes that are too small for you no matter how cool they looked. after that we wondered around harajuku for a while and found this other store that aaron wanted to go back to (the shoes there fell through too) and then we went back to the batman store and chatted for a while which was very nice and at last we took our beat feet home.
On the fourth day we went to Nikko. Nikko is a little town in the mountains just a short train ride out of tokyo. It rained and it was beautiful. Its a city of shrines. shrines, and temples, and pagodas, and whereas Japan's temples tend to be on the more discrete and subdued side, these are ornamental and decorated and gaudy and beautiful to the extreme. and its all surrounded by forest. the trees and huge; you look up and they go up up up and never seem to stop. it"s amazing. we walked up a thousand bazillion stairs to get to this emperor's (i think?) tombstone who the whole thing was built for by his son (or something like that). Unfortuneatly our camera finally ran out of batteries because i had forgot the charger at home and the disposable pictures we took apparently didn't come out at all, but fortunatly it didn't start to rain very hard until we had seem most of it. Unfortunatly we didn't have time to see the onsens (hot springs that are supposed to be really beautiful), but fortunatly we did get to have some yummy japanese food at this little restaurant on our way back to the train station where we got ice cream while we waited for the train. We headed home and i think this might have been the day that me and aaron decided to go out for some japanese food at a restaurant across the street from our hotel (mom was too tired), although it very possibly could have been another night, i'm not quite sure. we went to a ramen (noodles) restaurant where aaron got the ramen and i had cold udong (they give you a plate of thick white noodles cold and you dip them in hot (temperature) sauce to eat. it was very delicious.
On the fifth day our reservations at hotel shinagawa ran out and we shoved off to Yokohama which is the next city over and the second largest in Japan. We settled in at our hotel with a rooftop pool (with mom it was all the best, whereas with me its all rooms the size of yor closet) and aaron decided to stay in and play with the computer while me and mom went to Chinatown. Yokohama's Chinatown is the biggest in Japan and it's pretty cool. There's lots of neet little roads and funny stores and i got one of those really yummy fried seaseme balls with red bean paste inside but I still love my Chinatown in Kobe better even though it's much smaller, probably just because it's mine and i go there all the time and it feels like home. Then we walked along this road that seemed very European and fancy and headed home where we found aaron still in the room (he hadn't left except to get burger king) and i think maybe that was the night we went out for dinner at this japanese restaurant where they didn't have english menues but they did have a display case of food on the menu so every time we wanted to order something i dragged the confused waiters outdie to look at their window and point out what we wanted.
On the sixth (and final full) day we went to Kamakura (which is another short day trip from Tokyo/Yokohama on the train). It was a beautiful and hot day and it was perfect for going to the beach, so we did. We went to the beach and it was packed. Mom sat in a cafe and had a drink while me and aaron went swimming. The water was sooo warm, it was like a bathtub! Aaron wanted to stay at the beach all day, but we dragged him away to go find the big buddha. If you walk a little ways through the small beach town you come to a street lined with all these little antique shops that's really cute and if you keep walking you come to where the big buddha is. It's really big and if you pay like thirty cents extra you get to go inside the buddha which is made of copper i believe (it's the metal that turns green when it oxidizes or gets wet or something), unfortuneatly you can't go up the stairs to the head and it's really hot and stuffy inside. After that aaron bought some ninja stars and we had purple potato/green tea ice cream swirl and we went back to the beach where aaron took another dip. We walked our sticky sea salty selves home and took the train back to the hotel where me and aaron took showers and got ready for a night out. By this time it was Friday night, and we figured friday night must be a good night- much better than sunday night- to go out because it's internationally known as the night to go out. We got ourselves ready and aaron found a place to go on the internet and we took the train back into tokyo. in shibuya we found the place after a little while searching, a few people asked, and a couple of beers. we went pretty early so we walked around 'till we thought it was late enough to go in and then we payed the $35 cover charge to enter the nearly empty bar... we were the only ones there excpet for some british guy and like one or two other people. The music was good so i think it would have been a success if people had come, but as it was they didn't... anyways we bailed around one or two and went to a starbucks close to the station. according to aaron i passed out (my recollection of the incident is pretty weak) pretty soundly and he had a strange sleep and passed most of the night watching randoms in the shop. we rose with the first morning lights and caught the first train home... it must been around 5 or 6. we got home and slept for a while.
Day seven was our last morning in Tokyo area and although I really wanted to go to this next place i had read about just outside tokyo where there is this temple with a cave and they give you a candle at the entrance and inside there are all these carvings on the walls and statues and stuff and it sounds really haunting and amazing and cool i felt sick so instead we just hopped the shinkansen home.
The next day we went to Osaka to go to the aquarium which was really really cool! I should of known it would be so busy though because it was a school holiday, but i didn't think and it was packed to the brim and unmoveable. But when we did get to move we also got to see things like these huge manta rays, and a really big shark, and lots of really beautiful jelly fish, and jellyish octopus that suction cup walked themselves along the window panes, and these really cool huge spidery looking artic crabs that were like dinosaurs from your imagination or something incredible like that. After we explored the auqarium i got lost taking mom and aaron to the area where i like to shop and i think they probably got pretty fed up with me always getting them lost and we made it and i showed aaron the bape store. then we went to namba which is bigger than life and had dinner in the arcade and headed back home.
On the last day of my vacation we pretty much just lazed around the house, but in the evening we went to Rokko mountain and we went up in this elevator trolly car thing and looked at the view of the city and we could see all the way to osaka.
And then it was back to work for me and mom and aaron went about their merry way an went to kyoto and hiroshima and nara and all these places without me.
Mom left on the 23rd (possibly?) and me and aaron had the weekend to do stuff. On Sunday we went to the beach with mamiko and her friends. At first i don't think aaron had much fun 'cause no one could really talk to us, but then he made friends with Tommy and other people tried to talk to him in broken English and he made friends with the kids and we played with them and went swimming and he went on the jet ski and tried wake boarding for a little bit before it broke so i think he eneded up having a pretty good time. And on Monday we went to this waterpark somewhere outside of Osaka. We had to get up at like 6am to take the train to Osaka and meet Ayako and Chie and then take a bus for like two and a half hours to this waterpark. It was rainy an kind of cold but we had fun anyway. Ayako was so cute, she was so excited. We went on waterslides and warmed ourselves up in the hot spring baths had lunch and played some more and then it was time to go back so we hopped on the bus. Once we got back to sannomiya we went a little restaurant/bar with hundreds of polariods stuck up all over the walls and ceilings and everywhere, it was really cool. I liked the place a lot. Chie's boyfriend (now fiance) came and met us and his friend and we all had drinks and ate good food and it was nice. During the week i went to work and aaron went to places like sannomiya and osaka to do what he could do and on Thursday night I think it was I met Aaron and Ayako and Chie and a bunch of their friends in Sannomiya for dinner and we went out to karaoke. Unfortunately, Aaron got sick that day and was sick for the next two days. Poor boy, he had a fever and I went to get him fever medicine at the pharmacy where i mimed a fever with gestures and key use of the word atsui (hot) and he had terrible stomach aches although I couldn't mime that so i got mamiko to write it down for me and i took it to the pharmacy guy who i call my friend in my head. but luckily he got better by Sunday morning so he felt fine for the plane which is really good because being sick on the plane is the worst. So on Sunday i took Aaron to the airport and that was the end of his adventure in Japan.
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