So, staying up to 3 last night and drinking ended up being a bad decision. Also, I didn't manage to finish sewing my flag, despite renewed efforts. This added up to me disappointing Colleen. She held a workshop today at the park, just hanging out with people and showing them new things to do with their hoops. I had really wanted to come and play with my flag. But slept in until past noon, and had to get breakfast and get clothes, and didn't have time to finish my flag, and go come back home to pick up my flagpole and then get back to Yoyogi before it was finished. So yeah, a lot of little things that ended up kinda fucking that up.
We set out late today, again, mostly because of getting up late, and MLP. Guh. Oh well. Got to Ikebukuro and Sunshine City late. So we ended up meeting Kenna's friends late. Oh, the reason we went to Sunshine City again? To go to Namja Town. Kenna's been so eager to get me to go there with her and we finally went today. I kinda wish it'd been another day because after the zoo yesterday, I'm totally exhausted now, but it was fun and pretty cute. I'd totally recommend it to anyone coming to Tokyo, as long as they're really good at Japanese. I definitely struggled in places, and it's a little theme park geared toward children. Still, hella fun.
There were three or four different floors, and some themed zones. A creepy haunted house area, an old restaurant area geared around gyoza, an "adventure" theme and "fantasy" theme zone, an ice cream area, and a scifi ghost fighting area. Super fun games and stuff all around. The ice cream place was cool because they had a bunch of crazy flavors. Like squid ink, fried chicken, or garlic. As well as normal flavors. Weird thing about ice cream in Japan, rather than vanilla flavor, people tend to really like just "milk" flavored ice cream, which just tastes like creamy ice. Not my favorite, but crazy popular here.
Favorite thing I did had to be the alien/ghost fighting game. You got these headphones, and a "power pack" and had to wander the top floor of Namja town, through small town-like streets, and push buttons to plant bombs that would kill the pod things on the houses that the ghosts came from. If you managed to destroy enough of them with the bombs, you got a small prize at the end. I managed to get 29 of them, but you needed 38 to get the prize. Oh well. Still, super fun.
By the end of the night tonight though, I was totally ready to just sit down anywhere and sleep. We stopped by for some ice cream on the way back to the station and enjoyed the cool contact juggler street performer in Ike. Got back to the lockers at the station to get our stuff out, and there was a guy just passed out and sleeping in front of them. He was okay, but just sleeping there. Tokyo's weird sometimes. Super tired, got home, took and shower and here I am. I'm super glad I don't have class tomorrow. Gonna take the day to chill, do some laundry, and actually finish my flag.
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