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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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