Sunday, June 25, 2006

Pilgrimage to Chicago......
Well, this weekend has been rather interesting and quite unforgettable in my eyes. My friends, Cody, Ross, Matt, and I recently went to Chicago to take part in a Japanese culture festival last Friday, which unfortunately wasn't up to our expectations. All we did there was learn how to play Go and pump $6 into a machine of House Of The Dead 4. The best part was afterwards, where we went to an authentic Japanese restaurant, where we dined on ramen, tonkatsu, and I relaxed myself with about 300 ml of sake(and by relaxed, I mean got nicely drunk.) The next day had us drive around town until we noticed a Japanese toy shop and browsed it for a good while, giving me the chance to get some great wall scrools (I found a Detective Conan!!!! YES!!!) and a Rock Lee for my cell phone:) But the best part of it all was that Ross and I found not only a DDR Extreme arcade machine, but a Furikura photo booth, which is 50 times better than any photo booth in the states. We asked the owner for his offering price, since Ross and I are trying to get good machines for an upcoming arcade for our local mall after the arcade we used to work at folded over and DDR is like God here. The prices was reasonable for an arcade machine and hopefully we have something great coming up for our job securities. Then we stopped at the local Asian marketplace where we all tried melon soda and melon bread for the first time other than Ross, who tried even better stuff when he went to Japan a couple years back. We even browsed a Japanese bookstore to see CDs and manga that we could look forward to here. But the best part of the evening was when we went to this Medeival Times restaurant and got to enjoy a great show of jousting, combat, and some good acting while enjoying some old-style food, like roast half chicken and the like. It was truly unforgettable, even though half the trip was nothing but finding our way from point A to point B (with some wandering to point C and stopping at points D,E, and F to get directions) I'll never forget it. Once Matt gives us our copies of the pictures from his digital camera, I'll upload them so you can take a look.

No word on my computer, and I know that this post is rather long and winded, give me a break. Gotta give you something for all my time away from here. Well, gtg. Criminal Law class is giving me an exam in 9 hours, and with all this chaos in the trip, I couldn't even hope to study. Now, where's that extra-caffiene coffee????.......
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