Since I can't sleep even though I feel like I'm going to be sick if I don't sleep enough
There are pictures of the "Tokyo International Tea Ceremony" I went to with some friends here: http://s64.photobucket.com/albums/h199/aranelcharis/japan/
-There were lots of old people dressed in kimono, the cutest being the old bald men. There was one guy who was a wannabe samurai with long hair, though it wasn't all that convincing.
-It's hilarious how much Japanese people will spend on "famous" sweets that don't taste all that good and are in such small proportions. I mean, 2,000 yen for a tea cake?? 500 for a cup of green tea pudding?? Come on people...
-The boat is one that goes from the park we had tea in (can't remember the name of it) to Asakusa. It takes 1.5 hrs to get there, and has a recording that goes "Number 62" in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean before launching into an English explanation of the particular bridge we were going under. I don't know why we needed these, and one was even of the asahi beer hall (likely they donate money to the company who runs the boats). Try to find the Engrish in the menu. It's funny because it's spelled correctly on one part of the page and then incorrectly in another.
-In Asakusa we went to a used kimono place because they found out I wanted to get a kimono, but the new ones are over 20 man (em, $2,000 dollars). That being said, the place I ending up getting mine was the whole set for 7,000 yen ($70). It was so cute having them pick out the colors for me.
-After shopping we went to what they described as an "American-Japanese restaurant." This meant that the theme was "Arizona" and the menu had items like "stew" which were served with rice and looked nothing like stew, but rather a soupy glob of made out of chicken liver. (I didn't get the stew, btw...) My friends enjoyed it though, and I reveled in the novelty of how guns and elvis records as decorating items both somehow pertained to the theme of Arizona.
-There were lots of old people dressed in kimono, the cutest being the old bald men. There was one guy who was a wannabe samurai with long hair, though it wasn't all that convincing.
-It's hilarious how much Japanese people will spend on "famous" sweets that don't taste all that good and are in such small proportions. I mean, 2,000 yen for a tea cake?? 500 for a cup of green tea pudding?? Come on people...
-The boat is one that goes from the park we had tea in (can't remember the name of it) to Asakusa. It takes 1.5 hrs to get there, and has a recording that goes "Number 62" in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean before launching into an English explanation of the particular bridge we were going under. I don't know why we needed these, and one was even of the asahi beer hall (likely they donate money to the company who runs the boats). Try to find the Engrish in the menu. It's funny because it's spelled correctly on one part of the page and then incorrectly in another.
-In Asakusa we went to a used kimono place because they found out I wanted to get a kimono, but the new ones are over 20 man (em, $2,000 dollars). That being said, the place I ending up getting mine was the whole set for 7,000 yen ($70). It was so cute having them pick out the colors for me.
-After shopping we went to what they described as an "American-Japanese restaurant." This meant that the theme was "Arizona" and the menu had items like "stew" which were served with rice and looked nothing like stew, but rather a soupy glob of made out of chicken liver. (I didn't get the stew, btw...) My friends enjoyed it though, and I reveled in the novelty of how guns and elvis records as decorating items both somehow pertained to the theme of Arizona.