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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:



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