When in doubt, go to Chinatown.

I'm going to start this post with a quote from my good friend Calvin (Calvin I hope you're reading this).

For those 3rd floor people, we commonly quoted Calvin in our "Quote of the Calvin" board on 317's whiteboard (it's actually green). Yesterday, Calvin gave me a gem that I will NOT let slip. Without further adieu: 

Calvin Ketchum: did you grope some chicks on the subway? i've heard that's like the national pastime

Thank you for that moment Calvin. I'm going to just leave that there, context is up to your imagination. 

ANYHOW, my dad and I woke up at a normal hour today and went out on the town (probably for the last time, 4 days is quite a lot). Had breakfast at this really cozy fast food joint Yoshinoya. I had my favoriate Japanese, unagi, which is basically eel. So good. My dad ordered me the extra rice with the extra eel, and it was still a very moderate portion, less than the size of an entree at Appleby's, for context. This is why Japanese people don't get fat. Oh, and because fish is much healthier. Afterwards, we went to the district of Tokyo (they're called Wards, I found out), that has the really tall buildings (not that Tokyo doesn't have really tall buildings everywhere). We went up to the 45th floor of their municipal building and took pictures. That's all we really did there, madly exciting I know. I was supposed to see Mt. Fuji, but like the previous 4 days, it's been hot, humid, and foggy. Result: A picture of fog, representing where Mt. Fuji is supposed to be. Here it is...

After we got bored of looking at fog and buildings (pictures start here), my dad decided to take us to the port city of Yokohama, which is supposed to be the 2nd most populous city in Japan. Honestly though, it's just part of the Tokyo Metropolis. Train goes there, and there are tall buildings leading to it all the way from Tokyo. Tokyo is just one big extended city. We got there and had fast food Japanese curry for lunch. Place was cool, you pay for a ticket in a VENDING MACHINE (they love these, see what I mean?), and then went inside the little shop and brought out the dish in about a minute or so. These guys are so efficient! Then we went on a boat ride, which was kinda an excuse to look around the port and sit in an air conditioned boat for about 40 minutes. 

Then surprise surprise, we landed at the dock, and hey look, it's Chinatown. I should've known we'd do this (I've been to the Chinatown of every major city I've been to. You name the big city, and if I've been there, I've been to their Chinatown). We just walked around though, and literally every shop was selling bao-zi (which for non-Chinese people is just a roll with some kind of stuffing on the inside). One of the bao-zi some place was selling was like as big as my head. Overkill? Yeah. We just walked around Chinatown and decided to go, since both pops and I were really tired. 

That's all we did today. Rather uneventful, but I'm ready to rest up. Probably leaving Tokyo tomorrow to check out other parts of Japan, or at least getting to a new hotel. 

Much shorter brog post this time. 

OH, and watched Brazil rape Chile this morning. Hot damn. The Japanese announcers are way better than the ESPN ones. They scream SHUTA every time somebody takes a crack at the goal. And this one obnoxious announcer just mumbles "HMMMM" to himself all game as players make mistakes or something interesting happens. Samurai Blue (Japan) play tonight, hope they can beat Paraguay so the entire city splooges on itself. 

That's all. 

Bai bai. 

Edit: Just watched Japan lose in PK's. Most boring soccer game I've ever watched. Nice scoring, world class soccer players.