25.....!
Last week it was my birthday. In fact it was my 25th birthday (hello to feeling particulary old!).
As it fell on a Monday, I had an action packed weekend filled with fun and friends and apparently Gundams.
To start it off, Migs came down from Nagano on the friday. Whilst enjoying some beers and yakitori, we decided to go in search of the Gundam bar in Gifu. Gifu isn't exactly that big a place, so for there to be a gundam bar there..is simply remarkable. After asking many people about it, and about directions, we made it there around 11ish. It was Gundam time alright!
The bars name was SIDE 6, and although expensive. Was amazing.
First off, some business men decided to dress us as gundam characters.
Matilda and Char apparently.
The bar was lined with gundam toys.
Giant Gundam anyone?
Being a character in a Gundam bar is awesome. Even if you don't understand who they are.
The barman likes to dress as a maid at the weekend. He looked pretty convincing as a woman...we were slightly surprised at his awesomeness in a maid outfit. They had just installed a new karaoke machine, so we spent until 3am drinking, singing and talking about how the ages of the characters in anime, never grow old and its strange to think about it now. It was generally a very very geeky evening, where I kinda wished I had watched more anime to understand...but meh I'm not that kinda girl.
But I am the kind of girl who will dress up as a gundam character.
After a little sleep, it was time for driving practice.. Its insanely hard to get a drivers license in Japan...so this practice was very very much needed. At night it was a certain friends wedding party which was fun, Spent a while making a video of her past pictures and videos from Gifu uni and messages from friends around the world. Also did some belly dancing too, which was fun, but super embarrassing. however the best bit for me was going back to mizuho city in Shimpeis RX-7 listening to the Fast and the Furious ost. Niiice. More drinking was had at mine, before birthday bbq!!
Shopping was done smoothly, as previously I bought lots and lots of meat from the meat guy in Nagoya. Of said meat, some of it was from Australia (crocodile meat...yummy!). We went to the shops and got roughly 30,000 yen worth of food! Unfortunatly not many people brought drinks.. BYOB doesnt translate I guess... but it was all good. Migs had given me a musical speaker bear so I used it to listen to music at the BBQ. There were also alot of jet skiiers at the river, it was pretty cool to bbq, swim and watch the jet skiers.
Lots of people managed to turn up. Although Rin had to go home early as he had a work event at night.
Shame, as he never go to go swimming! (dress was a present from my mum and dad :D)
I got presented with a pretty awesome 25 donut, donut cake!!
Trying to eat it with no hands was tough!
Yummy Yummy cake.
Crocodile Kebabs anyone? I ordered alot of these, and ostrich. By the end of the day, so much food was left over! It was insane, but it was all eaten somehow.
Ostrich and Crocodile.
Unfortunatly Migs had to go back to Nagano. But it was awesome to see him again.
Then it was time to smash some watermelons. In Japan this is a popular BBQ game.
I failed..
Shimpei failed...
But Non-chan got it, and suddenly we had watermelon.
The bbq lasted for a long time, and as we packed up, we found that there was a problem. The gate had been shut and our cars were all locked in! Thankfully we managed to break out of the area in a mad panic dash. It was really all rather dramatic.
Then the night bight happened. My favourite bar in Nishi Gifu was closing down, so they were having a really big bang out party before it shut down.
After Belly Dancing, I got a nice bottle of Champagne as a present for my birthday. Unfortunatly this was a downer and not a enjoyer over time... But it was nice none the less.
Alot of tequilla, Alot of dancing, alot of drinking, and alot of feeling loney on my own at 5am, and the party ended. Lets just say I went to bed when the sun was up!
A long sleep later and I got to spend my actual birthday with Rin, who took me to the top of Gifu Tower for dinner at the restaurant. It was pretty spectacular. However a little embaressing as well Kensuke, our friend was our waiter. I have pictures, so I'll post them later. But it was an extremely posh meal. Small dishes, but many of them.
I got some lovely flowers too.
When I got home, I was given a birthday cake too.
Followed by a marvelous Vivienne Westwood Wallet from Rin.
The handkercheif is from Laura, she knows me so well!
I got lots of awesome presents from some awesome friends.
and some cards too!
All in all, I had a pretty fantastic 25th birthday. A little lonely from being away from home, but awesome none the less! Heres to being 25 I guess!
As it fell on a Monday, I had an action packed weekend filled with fun and friends and apparently Gundams.
To start it off, Migs came down from Nagano on the friday. Whilst enjoying some beers and yakitori, we decided to go in search of the Gundam bar in Gifu. Gifu isn't exactly that big a place, so for there to be a gundam bar there..is simply remarkable. After asking many people about it, and about directions, we made it there around 11ish. It was Gundam time alright!
The bars name was SIDE 6, and although expensive. Was amazing.
First off, some business men decided to dress us as gundam characters.
Matilda and Char apparently.
The bar was lined with gundam toys.
Giant Gundam anyone?
Being a character in a Gundam bar is awesome. Even if you don't understand who they are.
The barman likes to dress as a maid at the weekend. He looked pretty convincing as a woman...we were slightly surprised at his awesomeness in a maid outfit. They had just installed a new karaoke machine, so we spent until 3am drinking, singing and talking about how the ages of the characters in anime, never grow old and its strange to think about it now. It was generally a very very geeky evening, where I kinda wished I had watched more anime to understand...but meh I'm not that kinda girl.
But I am the kind of girl who will dress up as a gundam character.
After a little sleep, it was time for driving practice.. Its insanely hard to get a drivers license in Japan...so this practice was very very much needed. At night it was a certain friends wedding party which was fun, Spent a while making a video of her past pictures and videos from Gifu uni and messages from friends around the world. Also did some belly dancing too, which was fun, but super embarrassing. however the best bit for me was going back to mizuho city in Shimpeis RX-7 listening to the Fast and the Furious ost. Niiice. More drinking was had at mine, before birthday bbq!!
Shopping was done smoothly, as previously I bought lots and lots of meat from the meat guy in Nagoya. Of said meat, some of it was from Australia (crocodile meat...yummy!). We went to the shops and got roughly 30,000 yen worth of food! Unfortunatly not many people brought drinks.. BYOB doesnt translate I guess... but it was all good. Migs had given me a musical speaker bear so I used it to listen to music at the BBQ. There were also alot of jet skiiers at the river, it was pretty cool to bbq, swim and watch the jet skiers.
Lots of people managed to turn up. Although Rin had to go home early as he had a work event at night.
Shame, as he never go to go swimming! (dress was a present from my mum and dad :D)
I got presented with a pretty awesome 25 donut, donut cake!!
Trying to eat it with no hands was tough!
Yummy Yummy cake.
Crocodile Kebabs anyone? I ordered alot of these, and ostrich. By the end of the day, so much food was left over! It was insane, but it was all eaten somehow.
Ostrich and Crocodile.
Unfortunatly Migs had to go back to Nagano. But it was awesome to see him again.
Then it was time to smash some watermelons. In Japan this is a popular BBQ game.
I failed..
Shimpei failed...
But Non-chan got it, and suddenly we had watermelon.
The bbq lasted for a long time, and as we packed up, we found that there was a problem. The gate had been shut and our cars were all locked in! Thankfully we managed to break out of the area in a mad panic dash. It was really all rather dramatic.
Then the night bight happened. My favourite bar in Nishi Gifu was closing down, so they were having a really big bang out party before it shut down.
After Belly Dancing, I got a nice bottle of Champagne as a present for my birthday. Unfortunatly this was a downer and not a enjoyer over time... But it was nice none the less.
Alot of tequilla, Alot of dancing, alot of drinking, and alot of feeling loney on my own at 5am, and the party ended. Lets just say I went to bed when the sun was up!
A long sleep later and I got to spend my actual birthday with Rin, who took me to the top of Gifu Tower for dinner at the restaurant. It was pretty spectacular. However a little embaressing as well Kensuke, our friend was our waiter. I have pictures, so I'll post them later. But it was an extremely posh meal. Small dishes, but many of them.
I got some lovely flowers too.
When I got home, I was given a birthday cake too.
Followed by a marvelous Vivienne Westwood Wallet from Rin.
The handkercheif is from Laura, she knows me so well!
I got lots of awesome presents from some awesome friends.
and some cards too!
All in all, I had a pretty fantastic 25th birthday. A little lonely from being away from home, but awesome none the less! Heres to being 25 I guess!