Adventures in Japan

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Our weekend was a bit busy, rain or no. Our friend, Ben, has a friend, Sean, visiting from Australia. We met Ben and Sean for drinks at, where else?, the Hub. Jonathan, David's roommate was also there at the Hub. David swung by after he was done work and he brought along an acquaintance named Eugene. Let's meet the new guys...

Sean is, as mentioned, from Australia. Melbourne to be precise. He used to major in Police Officer-ing and minor in acting. Just recently he managed to combine his two loves: he played a police officer in the Major Motion Picture "Ghost Rider" (starring Nic Cage), coming to a theatre near you some time next year. Sean seems like a great guy. We had a blast.

Eugene, on the other hand I didn't like so much. He hails from New York and has done a fair bit of traveling, not that you can tell. His interpersonal skills weren't on the same level as Sean's. I can't say much more about Eugene, as I didn't learn much more about Eugene. He was too busy being argumentative to talk to anyone. Luckily, he didn't watch Star Wars with us.

We saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I won't go into much more detail about the movie. Instead, I'll detail the rest of our evening. After the Hub, we bought our tickets for Star Wars. The start time was 2:40 in the morning. Having 3 hours to kill, we headed of to an izakaya (Japanese bar with lots of yummy food, but you knew that). At the izakaya we ate and drank and chatted. And one member of the party smoked. While we were trying to eat. I'll give you one guess as to who (whom?). Also at the izakaya, we met a table full of Japanese girls. 3 Japanese girls. A table full of 3 Japanese girls. Which is not a roundabout way of saying they were fat.

And we didn't really meet them, Ben met them and we all just came along for the ride. They showed us how to make ducks out of our hand towels. In return we invited them to Karaoke.

We went to Karaoke. It was fun, but it only lasted an hour so we didn't get to really let loose. Sean can really belt out a tune.

Then we ran, literally, to see the movie.

After that we stumbled into the Wendy's right across the street and drank beer, ate cheap hamburgers and talked about the film. Joked about the film to be more honest. It was a fun night. Expensive too.