They took me back to the train station we drove from on Friday, and they showed me the video store in it. They then took me back out to the mall were the grocery store was, yeah there a lot of grocery stores in malls here, and I got to see around the mall. they showed me a big book store, and a place for video games, and I tried to get a new lime green Nintendo DSi there, but they said they would take me to a place where I could get a discount. We met back at a Colonel Sanders statue in front of the train station, where nearby a street performer was juggling and riding a giant unicycle. My host family was really surprised when I told them my grandfather had made chocolate soda's for the Colonel.
We went back home and ate lunch, some noodles and gyouza (pot stickers). They were really impressed with how well I could use chopsticks. We later took the car to the other place, but they didn't have video games, just PS3s for the Blu-Ray player in it. They got me there though an internet through AC hook-up so I could have internet in my room.
We then went to another electronics store, Yamada, where I got a points card after getting my DSi, I got almost 1000 yen back, so I used it towards a 3000 Nintendo points card so I could download the Japan train map app for it, but it still isn't out yet, have gotten since then some games like a weird Wario Ware that uses the DSi camera and a weird Katamari Damacy game that is like Tetris. It was cool with the points card because downstairs they had a slot machine game where I could gamble my points, in this case the 20 points I got back from the Nintendo points card, and it gave me back 41 points, but you could only play once.
We ended up getting lost coming home but eventually made it. Japanese streets are scary...
We ate Lasagna for dinner and I went to bed sometime after that.
The next morning came and again we had breakfast, I have never had this many consecutive breakfasts. We ended up going to another area of Tokyo with some malls, and they were having a festival there.
I know stairs are a pain, but this is kinda ridiculous...
They took Alice to play so I got to wonder around the two malls. In the first one I found a music shop called HMV, I found another book store and another video game store, I found a sports store with a giant TV showing the Japanese marathon that was going on that day and it had a giant Tweety Bird outside, and I found a an electronics shop where I got to look at all the cool Japanese cellphones, and they are cool.
I left that mall and went to the other one where they had a lot of cool things. The mall itself was cool it had a big ferris wheel ontop of it.
Other than that it had a waterfall in it, I found some Lego pastry chefs, a surf shack, a big Gundam, some weird manga (comic books), an authentic Indian restaurant, and a closer look at the ferris wheel.
Outside I saw some traditional Japanese buildings surrounded by the more modern Japan, a small police station, and I even noticed the birds were tagged.
parking is very limited here.
I went back to the first mall to meet back up with them and found more weird things like a self playing piano surrounded by sakura.
I met back up with them and we had lunch at the mall, I got teriyaki pork cutlets over rice and they were delicious.
My family then surprised me by taking me bowling, since I told them I bowled when we were at the supermarket. They were impressed when I bowled a 169 and had gotten 6 strikes.
I wear a size 29cm in Japan
We went back to their house afterwards and had a Japanese dinner. On the way I saw a great view of the city and I got to see my first Torii since being back.
Japan is so much fun, and this is just the beginning.
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