We met at Isetan department store in Sagami-hara at 12:30 for lunch. We ate in a meat resturant (not sure what type of resturant to call it) where Emi's mother had steak, I had some sort of Japanese mince beef crocket and Emi had some mix thing.
Anyway Emi's mother opens her bag and grabs a load of papers. Turns out she has brought every email or peice of info Emi has ever sent her mother! Basically we went through some of Emi's emails and I elaborate on what info she had - where I worked, family etc. She seemed fine about everything although she came across very shy, basically I think because of her English. She said a few words but basically spoke in Japanese and Emi translated.
After lunch we popped in to say hello to Emi's sister, she works on the ground floor (or 1st floor in Japan, they do not have a ground floor) and then off to the local park. Emi's mother is a bit of a pro-am photographer and we spent the next 30 or 40 minutes taking pictures of each other, you can see one of them here.
Friday Emi and I headed off to Fuji-Q highlands. Got up late and ended up arriving there at about 10:30am. We went straight to queue for Eejanaika (waited 90 minutes), this is the most awesome roller coaster in the world. Basically as well as running on a track that loops and twists the train can also rotate so you are traveling forwards, then backwards, right way up and upside down. Words cannot describe how good it is be here is a good try:
http://eejanaika.jp/
Click on the video and watch.
After we got off to went to grab some lunch and half way through a tasty carbonara the heavens openned. "Yipppy, no queues" I thought and we went to the oposite side of the park to wait to ride Fujiyama - incidentally it was the tallest and one of the fastest coasters about 5 years ago, still is one of even now. The queue was short and thing were looking good until they anounced it was closing because the rain was too heavy, poo! Shortly afterwards all the other big rides closed so we rode the Merry-go-round and then headed home.
In the evening we watch a really interesting film - Malcom X starring Densiel Washington. I knew of Malcom X but didn't really know anything about him. basically he started off as a bit of a player - happy-go-lucky then ladies man and gambler (with the wrong people), headed off to prison and meeting a man there converted him to Islam, although the "wrong type" of Islam. A will not say anthing else than I recommend to watch. Do however plan plenty of snacks and look breaks, it is a long 3 hours and 20 minutes long.
On Saturday we didn't do much, the only thing I wrote down was that Emi thought me how to play Othello!
Sunday 4th we went to Miyagase, a huge lake created by a dam. Very pretty and very busy as it was "Boy's day", a sort of national holiday. For the feminists out there there is also a "Girl's day". In the evening Emi made a very tasty Curry!
Monday 5th Emi and I went to meet a couple of her school friends that she hadn't met in a while. We met at Enoshima and went to lunch at a very nice resturant - I should think so having to wait 1 hour when we were all starving! After a tasty lunch we headed off to Enoshima Aquarium. There were plenty of cute pengiuns, gratious seals, floaty gelly fish and of course a show. Usually is a couple of bottle nose dolphins and maybe a whale jumping through hoops and stuff - not this show! There were 3 bottle nose and one other dolphin. There was loads of naration, little action. the most boring part was when one of the guys sat on a float in the middle of the tank sat next to seal. He would speak for about 2 or 3 minutes and then get the seal to wave, another 2 or 3 minutes and another wave. When it finished I wne to leave and Emi's friends said "lets stay for the next show", err ok then...
Now the Japanese are like Germans on holiday, they have to be early and "get their towels down". In this case we sat for 90 minutes before the next show started. Very quickly I thought some one had spiked my drink with LSD and fed me some hash cookies - it was the most bizzare water show ever! Basically there 4 girls in these strange half-wetsuit-half-dress clothes were singing and dancing and the occasional dolphin did a flip or something in time with the music. It was one of the strangest 45 minutes of my life and I ask Emi afterwards "di you just she what I saw", "YES, very good wasn't is" she said. I was certainly interesting!
Tuesday was a relax day, nothing to report. The day after was back to work, boo!
1 comment:
that hilarious! it's like that crazy talk show in lost in translation. i don't think i could have kept a straight face through the whole show though. it's pretty cool that you were respectful to her and her friends because they enjoyed it.
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