Tuesday was Joey's birthday. I knew something was up when I caught a glimpse of his instant messages, one of which said "dad says happy birthday as well." A bit later one of the people in the lab mentioned to me that they were doing something for Joey's birthday on Friday, and I later realized that he was the one who brought in all the souvenirs that day (as I've mentioned, when people come back from a trip or have something to celebrate they'll bring in what they call souvenirs...usually chocolate or pastries or something).
I went to the other lab and told Clare and Tim that it was Joey's birthday, and they asked me to wish him happy birthday for them. The labs are about 10 feet away from each other. Real sweet guys.
Naturally I ignored the request, and a few minutes later they both popped in to say hello. We decided to go over to Shinsaibashi to celebrate by going to all you can eat pizza at "Shakey's," one of the places Ashley raved about.
At about 4 I had my english lesson and met Leno, an electrical engineering student from the Phillipines. We chatted for a bit, and at 5:15 Tim came to get me cause they had no clue where we were. We waited a few more minutes for Dr. Williams to meet us, and Clare lead the way (she had been there a couple days before).
Roughly 45 minutes later we got to Shakey's and parted ways with Clare. Shakey's was a far more successful venture than our last pizza expedition, though it did cost about an entire train card to get there and back. The pizza was excellent, which I guess is quite a relative term when you've given some of the other restaurants you've eaten at names such as "Yucky Pancake Place." It was certainly worth the trip though. Between the "fish flake" pizza and the "mystery-meat-is-this-tuna-or-(elipses)" pizza I managed to find some corn and green peppers pizza and some regular cheese. I don't know who decided to put corn on pizza but it was a rather brilliant decision. Perhaps the best part about shakeys though was the fact that they had potato wedges. It would have been nice to have some sauce to go with it, but man for a meat and potatoes kind of guy, mystery meat and potatoes is about the best I could hope for.
After dinner Tim and I decided to walk around Shinsaibashi a bit more so we went down the street and stopped by Loft. This place was freakin cool, not to mention it had a plethora of engrish.
Since Halloween is just around the corner there were quite a few interesting costumes including the HardGay one. We considered making this
Joey's birthday present but we figured he wouldn't get much use out of it. Walking on to the next floor I spotted this
No way!! Japanese play Sudoku too?!?
The next floor had some of my favorite items including this ashtray
and this height chart.
Apparently Japanese height charts stop at 150 centimeters, and with good reason too. Perhaps my favorite item in the store however was this trash can that I feel like I've seen before (Ashley?)
I would have gotten it too, but I stopped taking existentialist advice from trash cans around the same time I quit mushrooms. Just kidding mom!
...I never really quit.
We left Loft and just walked around a bit more. We crossed the street
to check out what was on the other side but it looked like most of the stores there were closing so we decided to head back. We stopped by the coolest Apple Store I've ever seen but my pictures didn't come out too well, and stopped into the Swatch Store.
They had a pretty cool selection, though I wasn't aware that Ugg-Swatches had come back in style
It was getting pretty late so we decided to head over to Umeda to take the train back home so that I could get started on my presentation.
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