♪( ´▽｀) BBQ ~

Aug 16 2012: Well today was off to a slow start - around evening I was mailed to get ready since we were going out to shop for supplies for tomorrow (and to pick up my charger). Piling into a car we drove around Yokohama visiting various supermarkets for food. I was surprised because I had never been into supermarket in Japan. So seeing all the variety of food and household goods was rather a good experience.
We headed back before leaving again to go get food since I really wanted ramen, they were trying to find a suitable place. In the end we went to the same restaurant I went to previously so all was good~
I had a drinking game with my Mizuki's Girlfriend, but she won me. ヾ(｀д´●)ノ So then my Boyfriend and Mizuki had a drinking game, and my Boyfriend won! Only then we played 'revenge' and I was beaten again. (；´Д｀) It didn't help I had ate a bunch so I was already bloated, and Japanese beer is s gassy!!
Drinking with them is always so fun. I get asked a bunch of questions and at one point they were telling me to kiss my Boyfriend, but I'm too shy for that! Noo~ we headed back home, pit stopping at a conbini for melon pan, hnnghn.

Aug 17 2012: My first ever Japanese BBQ. ψ(｀∇´)ψ It was an early start, leaving at 9am and arriving at around noon because we stopped off for meat etc. It was extremely hot - and yes I got incredible sunburn on my back too. Curses.. It took us awhile to get the BBQ started but we did it! Everyone arrived eventually! It was fun seeing everyone together again and I even made a new Friend. She was sweet, I do hope to meet her again sometime. We ate so much and drank all again, I was given an alcoholic melon drink, it was delicious.
Later! There was a small waterfight that broke out, I have a video of it and basically they ganged up on the poor girl! Sad~ so I tried to get my own back for her which resulted in her hiding behind me and us shrieking -- for some reason my Boyfriend came over to put ice in all our drinks, for each drink he put an ice cube down your shirt. So I put one down his shorts while hugging him - I was influenced.

The area we were sat in was rather scenic and beautiful, and you grew adjusted to the insane cry of the cicada there too. I did want to walk around exploring, but the heat was immense that the slightest movement made you sweat. I think when I am back in England, I will appreciate the weather - just a little more.
Eventually we headed home to sleep off the food and beer before meeting up with everyone again later that evening for fireworks! We had so many!

It was a really fun night, once we were done we headed back for food and more drinking! I couldn't believe how they manage to drink so much!! But it was fun - and the food was delicious. It kinda makes me realise I am a hopeless in the kitchen and I want to improve on that!
Well, here's a complimentary photo on me trying not to set fire to the whole of Japan like the pyromaniac I am.

(つω`*) Yokohama Sea Paradise ★

Aug 15 2012: I had the choice of, shopping in Shibuya or visiting the aquarium at Yokohama. （*/∇＼*）Considering I can go to Shibuya whenever, we agreed the aquarium would be much better~ We set off, stopping by at the conbini before getting onto the 'sealine train'  for another small journey to our destination. Boy was this day hot!!

Aquarium Museum, we headed to this building first to get out of the heat, though it wasn't that much cooler inside either! Inside were various tanks, the first one had this HUGE Whale inside and you realise just how big these creatures are when you're stood in front of them. ((@__@)) The Penguin tanks were HUGE with so many of them too! I love Penguins, but they were so hard to capture on camera, as many of the signs said 'no flash photography' (well of course people still used flash uh).

The Polar bear there looked absolutely depressed and bored out of it's poor skull, this is why I generally dislike Zoos of the sort, some Animals look miserable as sin. However, life for the Polar bear could be much-much worse considering the environmental changes, at least he's getting a meal daily. (_ _ ||) 

The museum was on two levels, the escalators were through a giant tunnel so you had fish of all kinds swimming beside you, above you - all around you! Those Stingray were MASSIVE too. There was another tunnel later in the day which was a smaller aquarium called 'Dolphin Fantasy' and you were surrounded by Dolphins. It was so magical, inside was this HUGE Ocean Sunfish too, I find these hilarious. I first found out about them playing Nintendo game Animal Crossing, seriously - go and google Ocean Sunfish.
After exploring the Aquarium Museum, we took a walk to find some place to eat and drink, I used one of my Boyfriends gatsby cooling wipes, they're so refreshing until the mint takes over and you feel like your skin is on fire. (T A T) We went to look at some of the shops there to buy gifts, I found my Brother a cute gift. I was going to buy him Dolphin cookies, the expiry date was 2013 but -- I read they had red bean paste inside. Nope.

We had an all day pass, which allowed us to see all the events that day which included this in the above photo! I have never been to one of these shows before so I was as captivated as much as the Children there. She danced with the Sealion and played pranks on the Guy sat on the chair. At one point he fell into the water and had the Sealion rescue him! Out came this even bigger Sealion and gave him CPR to save him. So cute.

Once the entertainment with the Sealions ended out came two Dolphins which performed acts with two swimmers, such as balancing, racing and waving to the audience at the side. I took a couple videos which I have uploaded to my Facebook account.
There were two Dolphin acts, which six Dolphins came out to perform tricks such as 'moonwalking' on the water, diving and somersaults! Again, amazing, I love every moment of the show, even if I could understand just a little. I've also realised during my stay in Yokohama, that it's very Hawaiian themed! We have yet to go to the beach and two hours on my flight to Japan I realised I hadn't packed my bikini. HA.

When the show ended we went back out into the heat. There was a Pirate ride behind us so we both turned and went 'Rojak!' despite it being only a skull and crossbone on the ride. Moments shared like this amuse me.
We still had one area left to go, called Fureal Lagoon. He asked me if I was comfortable with touching the animals, since it was basically like a petting zoo. Of course during the video of rules etc; it made you believe you could actually touch a Dolphin, and I know people pay hundreds to just pet a Dolphin on the side. Sadly, there were no Dolphins, but we did get to pet a Killer Whale! It was so strange and rubbery but smooth, it's teacher then instructed it to do a kind of 'body slam' and so we all got KO'd with a tidal wave of water.
The Fureal Lagoon was probably aimed at Children mostly, as there was a Sakana Pool (Fish Pool) where you could fish and pick up other small creatures. You could also pet Penguins and the Sealions! We got our photo taken with a Sealion, it's so cute and a great memory for the day! The Sealion was so fluffy and rubbery too, I wanted to roll on him and hug him. (*・ω・*)

It was slowly starting to get dark, and we were both feeling a little tired so we decided to head back home. However we got distracted by crepes, so I ordered us both a crepe each and we sat watching this ride while being dared to go on it. I would, but he wouldn't. Boo~~ eventually we did leave and headed back.

If anyone of my readers comes to Yokohama to stay, I really suggest going here! It's wonderful~

Japanese: OHP
English: OHP

☆ Yokohama Bay ☆

Aug 13 2012: Today after work, my Boyfriend decided we should go out on a date, just the two of us -- aww, sweet! (there was also another hanabi festival close, but we found out it was canceled because of the wind) He never said where we were going, he seems a pro at doing that. But once I spotted the big ferris wheel I knew where we were → !!

It was rather romantic and I had wished I had taken more photos of the surrounding area, so I'll be sure to return again before I go back to England, hopefully. It was a good place for gift shopping inside the shopping area. We spent some time deciding on where to eat and settled for a Mexican Restaurant which was delicious. I had a chicken tortilla, never had I considered putting rice with the chicken, so I must introduce that to the family, it certainly bulks out the meal well too. After we ate we took a slow walk around an arcade, winning a set of Kapibarasan keychains. Cute~ (｀・ω・´)

Aug 14 2012: This day was actually rather slow and pointless, but we headed out for a meal and ended up bumping into Natsu and her partner. Natsu is so pretty without make up. (_ _ ) While we were sat eating, her partner kept hiding and bobbing his head up and down behind the frosted part of the glass. I'm glad I wasn't facing the glass, otherwise I'd have choked on my drink. (；´Д`A

I am a little behind on blogging, though I only have two more entries to type up however I suspect they're going to be lengthy ones too. Even though from the 18th on, I gained an ear infection and as a result rather cranky and miserable.

N@H 1ST ワンマン!

Aug 11 2012: You know someone really cares for you when they spend all morning (and the previous day) worrying about whether or not you can make it to Shibuya alone. Considering I had a blinder of a hangover, I felt well enough to head out to Shibuya to do a small purchase and head back to Hachiko to meet Katie.
I was originally going to go see N@H on my own, but Katie and I hadn't spent much time together so she offered to go see my overly auto-tune-pop-band with me. We sat outside waiting, talking and just generally trying to escape the heat until I realised most people had gone in already. (I totally messed up the times oops).
The merchandise table was pretty much empty, but I wasn't too fussed, I had already purchased the CD from Like an Edison that day anyway, and I found no appeal in the scrunchie or t-shirt. We soon settled at the back, it was pretty packed out, much fuller than when I saw Rojak at the same venue.

The live itself was amazing, Katie was worrying that she didn't know the furi, and I only knew it from the first release, and they had released a mini album since then! But thankfully their furi wasn't too insane or challenging, albeit one song アッパーホップDANCEマニア! Oh man.
They had a few video intervals which basically was the members each talking about their process as a band and how they have gained so much more from being as 'N@H'. It was really memorable and I am so happy to have been able to take part in their first oneman!

セットリスト

opSE(Impulse)

1.ツナグオト

2.スペース

-MC-

3.Pieces

4.Hello!!

5.DROP MAN

6.Beautiful

-SE-

7.RAGSIOD

～ドキュメンタリー風な映像～

8.たまねぎのうた-鬼ON!!-(ライボーカル)

9.コトノハ

10.アッパーホップDANCEマニア

11.Puzzle

～Encore～

1.未来へ掲ぐ掌

-MC-

2.FLY HIGH!!

哀愁を漂わせながらライが「たまねぎのうた-鬼ON!!-」を熱唱中。

N@H @ FACEBOOK

After the live, we quickly headed out in fear of the push and shove and went to the conbini for essentials before chilling back outside to wait for the Gays. It confused me that there wasn't a mad rush of Fangirls, but I remembered seeing cheki, and those lines take forever to filter down and out. 

Eventually the Gays rolled up, we were taking bets how wasted they'd be, but I was told they only had a small drink. So we wandered around Shibuya before taking purikura looking absolutely terrible from a gig and how humid it was that night. Gross. Deciding on food over beer, we went to McDonalds and we introduced the Gays to - French Fries dipped in Mc Flurry. Which.. sadly they did not enjoy. PSSSH, they don't know what they are missing! Anyone else enjoy doing this? 

♥ Group Date! ☆

花火！

Aug 10 2012: Katie had sent an email the previous day asking if my Boyfriend and I wanted to go to a Hanabi Festival. Luckily, the boys had exchanged numbers and before we knew it, they were on the phone together. So it was a set date! He arrived home early that day and we took the train to Shibuya before changing to the Ginza line.
We had a cute moment, because my Boy is not a Tokyo Boy, he often gets lost, so I had to direct him to the Ginza line - Oh I missed you Ginza line.
We were actually late for the majority of Fireworks, despite this being Tokyo's BIGGEST display of over 10,000 Fireworks, uggh we managed to catch the end before finding Katie. When we arrived Chibi was there with his Friend and his Girlfriend. So it made it a triple group date!  Eventually we swam through the crowds of people, literally it was impossible, before getting more beer and sitting down to eat. (Due to certain reasons I cannot upload various photos, mainly because Katie will have a fit at me.( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ ww)
While eating and drinking, Boy had a call, and before long the Vocalist to his band arrived also. A quadruple date!? We moved along and sat out on a wall, eating and drinking. It's all I seem to be doing as of recently. We ended up getting some more beers and this terrible, terrible grapefruit drink that I forced myself to drink, luckily I could mask the flavour with FREE yakisoba. Mm~~ ( 'ω' 三 'ω' ) Such a pig, I ate everyones, again.

For some reason, we started to walk again, and I got picture happy too, but it shows everyone in a cute line, coincidentally we were all, Girls Left, Boys Right. Before long, Katie had to depart with Chibi and his Friends, and I was left with the Boy and his Friend. However Natsu was very sweet, and we would talk occasionally. I remember at one point I asked where she got her bear from because it was cute, I expected her partner to have got it her, but no. Bad boy~ I recognised one area, which was Harajuku but walking it at night is so EMPTY. Natsu and I went to the bathroom in McDonalds, when we returned we were given -- I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I was so confused and drunk but I drank/ate it anyway. The reason WHY I was confused? My Boyfriend kept telling me 'vinegar' but it tasted NOTHING like vinegar. So I asked him 'vanilla?' No. We got into a loud debate and even his Friend joined in, it was so unfair!!
The train ride home I was in stitches because Natsu was copying some of the faces of the sleeping passengers, and then when her partner joined in it got even more hilarious. At one point he started headbanging because the young woman near us was nodding her head so violently while asleep. (￣▽￣)
We were going to head for purikura, but by the time we arrived back at Yokohama, it was shut!! Thankfully, somewhat - drunk Purikura always looks bad right? Yes..