The next day Alipon was able to guide me all through Yokohama :D The buldings, ferris wheel, malls... and of course, PURIKURAAA!!!! Finally I had my first "real" purikura, sooo exciting! Alipon was able to send some to her phone, which was SCHWEET cause one was an animated GIF! Wewt! AND OMG Taiko Drummer.... we ran out of time choosing the song, but it ended up being CHALA HEAD CHALA, the intro song to DBZ ROFL ROFL ROFL. That one was for Adam ;D We ended up doing some more shopping, walked around the port like 2 times ROFL ROFL, and ended up at Kaiten Zushi. O..m..g.... lets just say that "gomaki" is the bestest sushi EVARRR.... Maguro, Kimchi, and Sesame Oil.... *DROOL*. SOOOO GOOOD!!! It might be better than Spam? I don't know!!! Afterwards we were able to play some games (i can't remember all of them... Mario Kart, Taiko Drummer, and.... uh... like a memory game...). Fun times :D Plus, how can you hang out with Alipon and NOT do some Karaoke? I swear.... SOOOO BEAUTIFUL. TT-TT
The next day was DAICHI AND POPO'S WEDDING! We all went to City Hall to get those two married. Alipon was the reverend, Sheena was the photographer, and I was the fan XDDD After they got all their paperwork done, Alipon made the little speech, they exchanged rings, and TADA! MARRIED COUPLE! :D There was something about the marriage "booth" also being the place where you could get birth certificates and.... DEATH certificates (WTF?!?!?) Anyways... we had to have a nice dinner afterwards, so we all went for Italian. Pretty fancy-schmancy stuff. Then we were able to eat the cake Alipon and Sheena bought for the wedding at a bar. So we all had some drinks, a tasty desert, and good times :D Also, there was a flower garden inside the building, so we took LOOTS of pretty wedding pics :D I hope Popo's mom is happy with them, teeheehee. From here we had to split ways with the happy newlyweds, so Alipon, Sheena, and I hung out @ Alipon's apartment until I had to make my way to Shibuya to meet with Jackie!!!! As tradition states, we -had- to meet at Hachiko. Luckily it wasn't too packed, but that was probably because it was slightly raining. From here we went to our hostel in Ikebukuro. Friggen A man, Jackie's nihongo is sooo good! I was able to keep up with listening, but I had nooo idea what to really say. Soooo glad she was there :D After we dumped off our crap, we decided we needed some tasty foodz, so we went to a reccomended okonomiyaki shop. At first we almost got ripped off cause Jackie asked for one thing but the waitress gave us another, but OMG we won in the end by getting the "mistake" for free!!! Yatttaaa!!!! Then after tasties, we were able to get our Purikura on. BTW, Jackie is THE PRO OF PURIKURAAA!!! ZOMG. I kinda realized I never am looking in the right place. I look at the display, not the actually camera.... oops ROFL. Oh well. Then we hit up some games, and made our way to Karaoke!!! I didn't realize Mama Mia had some dang schnazzy songs :D I was able to get a few practice rounds in, wewt! We arrived back at the hostel at like.. 2 in the morning... and wow, funny story. So we get in, and we're in a dorm room, so everyone is asleep. I wanted to get a shower in before I passed out cause we had to check out by 10am, and everyone would be wanting to get inside. As I was gathering my things.... a girl who came in shortly before us decided to chat me up. I believe this pissed off EVERYONE. Oh.. but it gets better... she mentioned how she was being hit on by Japanese "call boys". You know, guys who are all dressed up n pretty and wanna escort teh single ladies... well the conversation went kinda like this:
Her: "I kept gettin asked by guys if I wanted to hang out with them, it was soo weird.."
Me: "Yeah my friend and I had that problem too, oh man.."
Her: "Well, I'm from Hong Kong, but I look Japanese. Why would they want to talk to you, apparently you're a foreigner."
I'm not even exagherating.
ROFL ROFL ROFL
Yeahhhhhhh I didn't really care for this bitch much afterwards.... especially when she kept commenting " Oh no, I'm too skinny..." BITCH
The next day Jackie and I were able to check out on time, and we made our way back to Shibuya. We hit up 109 until Nick got in, and we had a nice little reunion at Hachiko again :D Those two are soo cute, I can't friggen wait till they're married :D We went to a little Indiana lunch buffet, and then wandered around the streets of Shibuya. Jackie tried winning me a cute kitty plushy, but DAMNIT it just wouldn't work. Even with Jackie talking to the guy working there, it was just futile TT-TT This day was a special day too because... *drumroll* Adam was coming to Japan!!!!! Our first time in Japan together, soo exciting!!! X3 However...... he was running late... and I mean really late... Jackie, Nick, and I eventually hit up a internet cafe after wandering in Harajuku for a while. Once I got to my email... there was no message... WTF. At this point, I was mad. After we left the cafe though... I was FREAKING OUT.... As we headed to H&M, I just started to think of horrible things... like how my sister had mentioned the FedEx plane crashing and then... I just couldn't hold it in anymore, and I started crying. Thank goodness Nick is soo keen with whats going on, he was able to kinda hide me, and then Jackie came to comfort me. Embarassing but... god just the thought of something happening to Adam like that makes me just tear-up.... and wouldn't ya know it, RIGHT then and there, Adam calls Jackie's phone!! THANK THE MAKER!!! His calls kept gettin cut off, but we were able to communicate to him to meet us at Harajuku station. At this point I'm trying to not let my emotions get to me, cause either I should be 1- pissed, since Adam has a Blackberry and he shoulda called once he landed, or 2- relieved, cause he didn't die. Either way, thinking about it too much was bringing me to tears, so I just kept it in at the station. Nick took one exit, and Jackie and I took the other. After about 10 minutes of waiting, we finally saw my tall, thin, blonde guy coming through. Jackie was all like "go get your man~!", but I was kinda stuck... not petrified, but just... too afraid to let all my emotions go out. I think I first was like "Hi!.... why didn't you call?" Once Adam said his blackberry didn't work, I just lost it... being a big crybaby.... I think he was really confused LOL. After a few "meow? brrraaah!" I was able to get myself back on track. I was honestly really surprised with how affectionate Adam was being in front of people, but shitt, that didn't mean I wasn't likin it :D Finally, we were just able to be in Japan... it was nice to finally accomplish that ^_^ So all 4 of us made our way back to Yokohama, dropped things off at Alipons, got changed in dresses, and went for tasty Kaiten Zushi along with Sean :D After dinner, we hit up some games and group Purikua, and Nao met up with us as well. Sooo much fun having everyone together!
And I'll wrap this up here. I'll finish up my little Tokyo adventure next post :D
Another interesting thing is: I have not taken my garbage out yet. Yes, it is disgusting, but I have been soo unsure about HOW you take your garbage out here. You need to sort everything, and take them out on the assigned days, IN an assigned location. Its just too detailed! Damn you Japan!!! Hopefully everything will be out thats smelly before I leave for Golden Week. Here is an example of how it goes (burnable, non-burnable, cans/bottles/ PET bottles/ oversized, ect.)