An adventure!

Turns out I can eat a lot of beef in one go.  I don't think I've ever eaten that much meat that quickly before.  I was also drinking the violently green Fanta Melon (another student, from France, said it was an alien drink from Mars).  So I had a sugar rush and then another slice of beef- whoa.  It's lucky that I have to bike everywhere.

As we left the party we got turned around in the outdoor mall corridors.  We ended up going the opposite direction.  Of all the places two teenage girls could end up . . . you guessed it,

     the red light district.

It was getting dark, and because the landmarks were completely changed (I don't think I've seen this love hotel before . . . ) we were thoroughly lost.  We went to a family mart to ask directions, and the shopkeeper there was very kind.  He was worried that we were lost and made sure we understood where to go- we bought some candy while we were there (mine was really gross- but that's another story).  We walked back through the district and across the big bridge with the scary performer, it was really tall, masked and in a golden yellow kimono- it pointed at us and held up two fingers.  It was like those statue people you can find in the U.S. only this guy was scary and was standing on a really tall box.  We asked for directions again, this time of a helpful subway attendant (who I thought was a man until she talked, sumimasen attendant-san) and eventually found our way back into the Tenjin we knew.  Luckily we're pro's once we hit the Meiji/Shokan street Tenjin area (all thanks to Daiei).

All in all, it's really painful to walk all over the place when you have just eaten 7 pounds of beef and 4 glasses of melon soda.  But I liked having an adventure (mostly after we were back home).