Nous sommes pauvres.

Would you like me serve your food with an AED now, or shall I wait until you pass out from having your arteries completely clogged?

Ugh.

So much food today. Really, I didn't see any sights today, it was just stuffing my face, and spending LOTS of money.

Our day started out with the Japanese take on Ukrainian food... We ordered two dishes each, since each one was 600 yen, and we assumed that they would therefore be small.

Wrong.

After stuffing myself to the point that I couldn't possibly eat another bite, we wandered to Mr. Donut, and I proceeded to purchase their burger donut set, and threw that down as well (10 minutes after finishing brunch). And I wonder why my tummy was so mad at me earlier this trip...

We returned to Shinjuku station (which is close to the red light district) to carry on. Before we left, we did hear a lady get propositioned in broad daylight. She wasn't actually a STW though, so she totally wasn't impressed. (Although to the guy's defense, she sorta was dressed like one. But c'mon people, 9 AM!!)

Onto electric town, where I proceded to purchase any camera equipment in site that was more than 50% cheaper than you could find in Canada. (*sigh*). Yodabashi is a site to be seen though... it's an entire city block and 9 stories high and ALL filled with electronic goods (or, female goods to distract them long enough for the men to go buy their stuff. I'm not actually kidding about that one). Bonus 5% discount for being a foreigner too (yay tax breaks!) -- apparently you get a full 10% off if you're from China and have a credit card from there. Yang - better get on that one for us.

Dinner tonight was at the top of Cross Tower. It was at La Rochelle, a french restaurant run by the French Iron Chef, Chef Sakai. I've never been in that fancy of a restaurant before, so I felt very out of place. Luckily, so did everybody else sitting at my table :P, and actually most of the other patrons too seemed like they felt out of their element. Thankfully, they didn't comment on my lack of formal attire (I was wearing a button up shirt, cargo pants, and amphibian shoes. :P). I felt as mismatchedly fashionable as a poker star. The food was tasty, and the view was fantastico. Apparently, it's usually alot smoggier, so the waiter said we got one of the better views for spring/summertime.

Ultimately, dinner set us back ~17000 yen (that's about 200 CAD). So... it now ranks as the most expensive meal I've ever had (and had to pay for... BTW: thanks Roche Pharaceuticals... :P). They seemed to be somewhat quizzically confused about our foreign credit cards, but thank gawd, none of them bounced.

After dinner, they escorted/led us to the door. Jack disappeared to go to the bathroom, so when they noticed he was gone, they marched us back to the waiting room and then back to the elevator when he returned. I'm sure they meant well, but I almost felt like that's what it'd be like if we ever got thrown out of the restaurant too :P.

I closed out the night with some Karaoke with Jack - just to say I've done it. I was sober, but you can't really tell that from the videos.

So, in summary - I need to take more money out :(, I think I blew 40000 yen today. Ouch.

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