Nana... (Momo redux)

I visited Akihabara today.

Oh. My. God.

Electronic and gaming stores everywhere. You'd never have to leave. There's arcades, food for when you get hungry... and uhh... 'men's stores' if you ever get lonely. =)

Anyhoo, that's where I spent a good portion of my evening. Prior to that, we checked out the new waterline area. Sadly, most things are closed on Mondays instead of Sundays here. (So our TV station with observation tower, and the panasonic electronics display were closed). However, it had the Toyota showcase, so we decided to test drive the new model Prius. (Man, Jack's international driver's license has really come in handy). The thing runs on batteries when you first start it up, so we couldn't even tell it was on when we started. We dubbed our brand new car Nana.

We played a simulator which shows rally car racing with and without VSC. After playing Forza motorsport, I thought I'd be better at it. Jack got ratings of B without VSC and A with it on. I got an E (which is their friendly way of saying F) with my driving with VSC, and a solid C with it on. Basically, it was saying my driving blows. All the time.

We also played an electronic version of touch the hedgehog (I guess they meant whack a mole...) - which made me feel like I redeemed myself. A bit.

I found my new favorite video game. It's like gun games in Canada, where you try and do little tasks. Except the catch in this game is you use ikea balls which you whip at a screen instead. It's INTENSE! (My arm was sore the next day).

Speaking of intense, I should probably touch on the fish market. (Hurray for blogging in reverse chronological order). The photos probably describe it better than I could, but wow... what an experence. There was more seafood there than I've probably seen altogether in my entire life. Add on top of that all these mechanical carts whizzing around at 40 clicks up and down the walkways (I almost got smoked 6 or 7 times, and I was actually trying to pay attention).

We had sushi, done the traditional way. It took forever to get in there - there was only 1 bench, and the sushi chef's make your sushi one piece at a time, as you're ready for them. It was delicious, and well worth the 2 hour wait. (That's not a fib, we got there at 7 AM, and got in at 9). The only thing that marred the food was this really rude, agressive couple that were taking flash photos of everything. (They pointedly ignored the brochure they were holding, which requested no flash photos at the market). I think they had just bought the camera prior to coming on the trip. It was an SLR, so they took rapid fire flash photos, blinding the chef.

I almost cried when they said they were from Canada. Way to make our country proud :(

Well, on that note -- I'll stop to talk about what really makes me happy. Retail therapy. Go go spending spree. (See tomorrow's note :P)