More pictures!, Steve’s show closing party, and KARAOKE!
Hello there! I can’t believe my time here is almost up. It has been going by super quick, but each day has been jam packed with adventures and cool things to see and experience. So in the end it’ll feel like a 3 month trip fit into just 6 weeks. So I know I’ve gotten behind on my blogs, but it’s just so hard trying to write them when I get home, because I’m exhausted and I end up falling asleep in the middle of them, so I have all these unfished ones waiting for me to finish and upload. I’ve started when I get time during the day to be on a computer to finish them up and upload them, so check back throught the blog to see if you missed some. I’m trying to keep the chronology correct.
So anyway I guess I’ll just write about yesterday. I had the morning to work on my project, I have a lot of illustrations I’m doing for it, and I’ve been shooting to have that part finished by tomorrow, so I’ve been working every free moment I have on that…and there’s another blog I have to keep for that project, so there’s just so much work to do on top of all the tours we have and then fun times we have scheduled also!
So anyway we were all meeting up at Shibuya’s Hachiko Square, which is the place to meet people in Shibuy and then we headed off to Steve’s photography exhibit near Omottesando, for his closing reception. His work was really great, and it was packed at the exhibition. and there with lots of sake and sushi and snacks for all! His wife also made a surprise appearance all the way from NY, and so it was really cute seeing his face when she showed up…he made us all teary eyed. It made me miss everyone back home alot! I can’t wait to see everyone!
It was also one of the guy’s 21st birthdays so we had a whole night of karaoke and party planned. So after the show we all headed back to Shibuya got some eats and then headed up an elevator to the karaoke place. Pretty much it’s an entire floor with rooms. We got the big room, since we had quite a group and so we all piled into a room with benches all around, a TV, 3 microphones, 2 tables and tambourines for all. So we originally signed up for 2 hours which was about $25 a person with unlimited drinks. But we ended up staying an additional 2 hours after that, because we were having so much fun! We sang so many songs, it’s amazing I still had my voice by the end of the night. We did get kinda nuts by the end though. I remember someone knocked over a glass, I think I hit Tom in the mouth with the microphone, I got elbowed or something in the nose, feet were getting stepped on, and then some people were getting Japanese people from other rooms and bringing them in to sing with us. It was just a super fun time, well minus the casualties. And I think we succeeded in giving Matt a proper 21st birthday celebration in Japan, even though he was already legal as the drinking age is 20 here.
Since we stayed past the time when we could ride the trains home…they stop running at 12:30…we went to this other place for some dancing and hanging out and then caught a taxi home, well close to home, there was a lot of traffic, so we decided we’d walk the rest of it, but were super hungry so we went to eat some late night food, which was delicious, and then got some ice cream for the walk back to our home in Akasaka.
It was a great night! and I will definitley need some people to go out and do karaoke with me, when i get back to raleigh. Singing is fun people. Rock on.
And that’s all for now. Laters.