Adventures in Japan

Lucky

I forgot to mention another stop we made during our Kyoto crawl night. We stopped by a Moonwalk bar before we went to Isn't It?. We drank interesting drinks. As we were thinking about getting ready to leave, a girl came up to Ayako and they started talking excitedly. It seems this lady, whose name we never learned, was also a teacher at the Bing Bang Boom Club. After the other teacher lady left, a large dark skinned man (who I assume was the girl's boyfriend) sat down at the table with us. He had a serious look on his severe face. He clapped Ben and I on our shoulders and then said to us: (I don't remember the exact words, but what follows is fairly close and with less swearing) "Sometimes you get lucky. You two are very, very lucky tonight." He clapped us one more time on the shoulders, with much more force than the previous ones, and then left. We all just sat there until he was gone and then cracked up. I still don't know what that was all about.

Last night was another all nighter. With David this time. With multiple stops at multiple drinking establishments. I feel like a college student: I have no money, yet that knowledge never stops me from going out all night. That's probably a bad thing. On the plus side, there were no confusing encounters with intimidating men who were obviously deeply unconfident in their manhood, instead there was a cute Japanese baby and a toddler toddling about the Green Leaf. And we got a scrabble board, a GameCube, and a really nice bottle of Scotch Whisky out of the deal.

Plus we finally got to eat and drink in a Murasaki, an izakaya that David quite likes. We've tried at least half a dozen times to get into various Murasakis but they have always been full up. The food was quite good. Except for the chicken that might have actually been liver. That I didn't like so much.

In this country, if you were to go to an 'authentic' British pub and order a Shepherd's Pie, you would receive a small portion of Bolognese sauce topped with an even smaller portion of mashed potatoes. Not as tasty as it sounds.