oh, that's cute.

On this particular Thursday, I woke up at a decent hour. Andrew had been researching record shops in Japan, and today was the day to try and locate them all. So we grabbed Mal and jetted off. Luckily Shinjuku so happened to be some sort of record store hub, so we stumbled across even more stores than we thought we might. All in all, hitting up about 5 stores, only to find one cd to Andrew's liking. There is nothing I enjoy more than looking at crusty album covers from the 80's while Andrew tries to discover which Japanese hardcore bands are worthwhile only by looking at the cover artwork. I didn't find anything. But I did fall in love with Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album on vinyl, and must immediately locate it and purchase a recored player when I get home.

We had worked up quite an appetite sifting through dusty shit, and I needed to thoroughly wash my hands. We decided on this Indian spot across from one of the spots and ate tons of mediocre curry and naan. They even had a salad bar, which is apparently a strange occurrence in Japan. But I guess what do you expect from a Indian place in Japan? They do shit differently. They do what they want. We each got three types of curry: chicken, potato and pea, and scollop (which was by far the best).

This next part is about to get fucking cute. If you thought that dancing polar bear at the mn zoo was cute, you have been surly mistaken, because nothing tops this. After indian food, we skipped off to Ueno zoo to check out the GIANT Panda's. This zoo was pretty cheap, all things considered. It also had not one, but TWO giant pandas! Eager as a fucking kite on a windy day, we waited in line to see them in all of their glory. After about 40 minutes in a line that seemed to be moving at a snails pace, we made our way to the to front of the line. In front of us were two giant pandas gnawing on bamboo in the cutest fashion. No wondering the line moved so terribly slow, I could have stayed in front of that glass watching them eat all day.

The rest of the zoo was your average run of the mill zoo, with a few different animals caged up, but nothing too spectacular. We caught the train home and stopped off at a combini to grab, food, wine, and chu-hi's. I am not sure if I mentioned this before, but combini is a japanese term for convenient store. Let me tell you that they are NOTHING like the convenient store's back home. All the food is legit, and you can buy straight up liquor. You don't have to worry about anything giving you food poisoning or ruining your day. Everything is extremely fresh and most importantly, legit.

After a lazy day at the zoo, we capped off our day with drinks and moveis at home. Movies included: Dodgeball, American Psycho, and Blue Streak. Although I fell asleep during the last one.