Ghibli and Robots and more video games!

Studio Ghibli Museum was awesome, even tho I don’t have very good pics. The best part was watching the animated film about cute little sumo wrestling mice. They had the same moves as the wrestlers we watched train yesterday.

Then we visited a bird cafe.

Then lots of insane shopping at Don Quixote and Yokomashi. Then ramen in Golden Gai.

Then the Robot Restaurant which was its own kind of special. It was like every sequin, piece of glitter, and neon lights in all of Vegas crammed into one room. And throw in some Mardi Gras floats which were really big robots. Glorious

Then we played the 2 games I wanted to play in Japan - the drum game and the Flip the Table game (aka the Teresa Giudice game). We couldn’t find the flip the table game on Monday and our sweet guide Ren called almost every arcade in town looking for it. He found one in Kyoto and gave us directions for when we get there. And then, across the street from the robot restaurant the birds sang.

I played a bride who flipped the table holding her wedding cake and hit all the guests. Then I played an old lady at a nightclub who flipped a table with a champagne glass pyramid. She flipped the table onto a group of young men dancing in front of her like a boy band. I just can’t even make this stuff up

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OH YES WE DID!

Oh yes we did drive go-carts through Tokyo for 3 hours at night dressed like Mario Brothers without helmets or seatbelts. It was both crazy and crazy fun at the same time. I think we topped 70km/hr which Eric says is about 43mph. I’m sure it was perfectly safe. We drove across rainbow bridge too This is where I ogled the Valentino store in Ginza: And Rainbow Bridge in the background that we drove over... twice:

Burnt Miso Ramen

Let’s get a closer look at this unbelievable ramen from ramendining-gogyo.com, which is across from the US Army Hardy Barracks. This was more pork than I’ve eaten in years. But I loved every minute of it. And here is a square watermelon And we ate an Asian pear. They are in season.

Matsumoto

We left Tokyo and arrived in Matsumoto where there is one of the few surviving wooden Samarai castles called black crow: We climbed to the top of that bad boy and the stairs were super steep. Surprisingly I did not have an anxiety attack coming down. Then we took a soba noodle making class here: Here are my noodles and my favorite drink POCARI SWEAT. We also had burnt miso ramen here DEElish. Matsumoto is the birthplace of Yayoi Kusama (whose Hamilton of the Art world tickets we snagged at the High). The city museum of art had an awesome exhibit which included infinity mirrors but no photo allowed. These are her flowers outside. Her work is incredible. Now taking a bus to Takayama

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