06/05/09
After work I went to Karaoke with my co-workers. I finished later than everyone else so we met up in Big Echo. They had already been singing and drinking for a while so I had to play catch up. I sang a few songs and then we moved on to a nightclub that was nearby. As it was the end of Golden week, the night club as dead except for four boys sitting at a far table who were dancing among themselves. We drank and chatted for a few hours and then finally left. My family were coming back tomorrow.
07/05/09
My family arrived back from Hiroshima. They had gone to see the shrine that lies in the ocean. They have now official been to more places than I have in Japan, so I wish I could have gone with them. They showed me pictures of where they went and it looked beautiful. We hung out in Ueno and got drunk in a local bar. We chatted for hours and ate a lot. It was a pretty relaxing day.
08/05/09
I worked. Not much to say about it really.
09/05/09
We went to Yokohama and watched the giant robotic spider running a mock ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqolwulVlsc ) (La Machine). That was pretty cool. After we had watched the spider we went into this old warehouse that had been converted into a shopping centre. There was a food court and while we were eating a young lady came and asked if she could interview us for the local radio station. Turns out, we didn’t know anything about Yokohama, so I doubt she would have used our answers.
10/05/09
Me and my family went to a random place on a whim. It was called Nasu. We found it in the guide book that was available at my family’s hotel. I slept on the train, and we ended up in the mountains. There were lots of carved statues of a small man with large hands praying and a mountain path to walk along. When we had gone full circle, we put our feet in an onsen. It was really hot and I could see my feet turning red.
As we got on the coach and returned to the train station we travelled through a forest, it was really nice and there was grass in between the trees, I have never seen that in a forest before. What’s more, as we passed through the forest, I saw a route master bus (Double-decker bus) between the trees!!! It was really old and had “Victoria Station” written on the front. That was quite random; I have ridden that bus in London too.