♥ 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..

（ ﾟДﾟ） Pirates + Booty

Aug 6 2012: It stormed today. It stormed a lot, both outside and inside my skull. Hey, remind me to never drink again? (。_゜)〃

Aug 7 2012: Today I was dragging the Boy off to see a live at Shibuya REX. We had planned to meet Katie and Ku but they weren't 100% if they would come or not since they had been out the night before. Anyway, we turned up just in time since the starting act was already on. Though my Boyfriend knew when Rojak were playing, so we hung around at the back and chatted to some of the other bands who were lurking on the merch table. I really enjoy themed bands, though Rojak are Pirate themed they still have amazing music and also do a lot of OST tracks for Games etc. When Rojak came on, I really wished Katie and Ku had been there, because the urge to dance. This is my second time seeing Rojak live, (not including niconico) but I really enjoy watching them. Eventually they finished and I had asked the Drummer previously if I could buy their CD, so we waited for them all to come out before asking him. He then got his bandmates to all sign both CD for me, before giving me a demo CD too. They eventually vanished backstage and we went to get ourselves a drink, thus another beer, but my stomach was telling me no. (ﾟДﾟ≡ﾟДﾟ) I eventually got a photo with the Drummer, if you have my Facebook then you can see it. ふふふ

Rojak / Dizzy core/ Melt-メルト- / 千歳船橋~地中海風~セッション 

Dearest / ＩNFINITE FACTOR /MeleM

Aug 8 2012: This day was rather slow and my Boyfriend had work, so I spent the most of the day cleaning his apartment and folding the washing. Simple mundane tasks, you'd think I would be studying my ass off, but the weather makes it impossible to concentrate, coming from a cold and varied climate, uggh.
Eventually he got home from work and asked if I was hungry since we would be going out to eat with a Friend of his. He's steadily introducing me to his Friendship group, it's cute, but incredibly nerve wrecking with the language barrier. Anyway~ despite our hunger, upon meeting his Friend and small introduction we went to an arcade. I won a K-ON figure of Mio as Romeo, Hiro tried to win the Ritsu version of Juliette however never managed it. It takes skill, and a good eye, as well as patience ←・・・・・・(・ω・。) We left for food, drank and spoke about what I liked - mainly Anime, but I felt too awkward to name some of the weird ones I do watch. Since we were eating locally we didn't need to rush for the trains too much, so we visited a couple more arcades.

We won 'Friendship' straps. Coincidentally, I like how mine is the angry emoji. ♪ ("＞ω＜)っ)) The Boys kinda went over the top with the UFOキャッチャー, if ever I said 'Cute~~~' they would go out their way to win it, or ask for the staff to re-position it for us. One amusing win was the Nova Usagi plush, which wasn't even in the machine, but they placed it in and Hiro won me both of them! By the end of the night I came home with: 

☆ K-ON: Mio ☆ Miku Hatsune Plush ☆ Gloomy Bear ☆ Rilakkuma ☆ Stitch ☆

☆ Nova Usagi ☆ Usavich Purses ☆ Nameko Mushroom ☆ MonHun Felyne brush ☆

So many wonderful things! Let's hope that come the end of my journey I can make it back to England without an extra charge on my baggage. (>___<)

☆ Ice Cream + Monsters ☆

Aug 5 2012: Today we ventured out together, at first I wasn't aware of where we were going during the day. So I remained in a confused sort of trans, trying to make the best of memorising certain train stops. Eventually he told me where we were heading on this mystery tour. 'Sunshine City' !! Which I had previously been to before mentioned here. So I was certainly thrilled to be going again. Katie and Ku had mentioned Ice Cream City and I guess the Boy took note of this place. Adorable~

We arrived at Sunshine City with ease, me being the navigator this time. With a sigh of relief at the air conditioning we decided to take our walk slowly up towards Namja Town which is an adorable Cat themed amusement park. Inside there is the Ice Cream City host of many bizarre and wonderful ice cream flavours. The prices range between 300yen to 500yen each which can seem a lot for a tiny pot of ice cream in many peoples opinions. However we even struggled to eat the GOOD flavour.

We decided to pick at least one BAD flavour, which was 'crab' / カニ and -- to be honest it wasn't that bad, it just left a VERY fishy after taste. But it included little chunks of crab meat in, so it was very -- interesting. My Boyfriend picked a double cheese flavoured one which was interesting, it had a kind of sour cheesecake taste, but definitely not one for me. Oh course 'melon' / メロン was for me. I've also adopted the pet name メロンちゃん (melon-chan) from the Boy.
After making our own concoction of flavours which included melon + double cheese = melon cheese cake. Which - was actually nice! Except I hate cheese cake. We also tried crab + double cheese = NO! NO MORE KANI!!
We went to browse around since we had plenty of time to kill before meeting everyone again, so we went window shopping. There were a couple things I wanted but I knew I would die carrying them around with me. Finally we made a pit stop at an arcade which is pretty much my biggest pitfall. There was a machine full of cute Disney soft plush and of course, I saw Stitch. I hadn't any 100yen coins so I used 500yen which gained me 6 goes. I won a total of five times with one coin!! I was so happy. Even my Boyfriend was amazed, since he is not good at them, boo. I love the little Stitch coin purse, so handy.

We went to the second floor to take purikura too. It was so cute!! Though we eventually we headed back outside to wait for everyone since our next destination was right next door at the Lock Up!
It's a themed Bar and Restaurant which is simply so amazing. If you like your horror and being scared while you're in the middle of dining, this place is the best place to go. Of course!! You do get a rather loud warning when the Monsters escape, sirens and heavy music plays and then you hear shrieks of tables close by.

We met everyone outside, this time Yoshi had brought along his Friend Shu, so it was roughly the same people as the previous night, all except Drummer Boy. Arriving after much torment we were greeted by a scantly dressed Police Woman, who handcuffed Katie and lead us to our table for our first rounds of drinks. I had apple sour, same as Katie, and Ku - I forgot what she had but it was glowing under the UV light, epic.
Once everyone was comfortable - and the Monsters had been captured, we ate and talked a lot which became a debate of how to pronounce certain words. Ku being American pronounce certain syllables which Katie and I don't pronounce, which then ended up with the Japanese cutting in with their Engrish, which resulted us in tears and mainly screaming 'Fuck the Police' and Katie recording it. She actually managed to get the Boy saying it too! Haha!! We drank so much, but with each round, another round of food came, and then slices of melon, I'm not sure how I remembered the melon but I ended up eating nearly everyones... uh.
It was declared we go and take purikura before the last train. How do you get seven drunk idiots into a purikura machine? You don't. ┐('～`；)┌

We were close to missing our last train, so the Boy and I literally sprinted across Shinjuku, and dear God, if it wasn't for me pretty much colliding with Shu and gripping onto him, I'd be in a Hospital bed from running into traffic. But the running didn't stop there, it was like torture because of how tipsy and drunk we all were. Uggh, but it was such a fun night!! I loved it, and the memories of this day.

（´∀｀） Fun Times

Shopping + 飲み会

Aug 3 2012: So today I went shopping with the Boyfriends Sister, she arrived at the apartment around 10am and this was my first official day out in Japan. I annoyingly over dressed myself in mostly black and regretted it while walking to his Parents house for breakfast. His Mother cooked us breakfast - it was delicious, but so many dipping sauces! I wasn't sure which to use but his Sister demonstrated which ones go where. I finally got to meet his dog too, a little chihuahua called Chibi. Who kept begging for food under the table. チビちゃんはとてもかわいいね〜
Afterwards we headed out to go Shopping in Yokohama, she was going to show me where she got her ghost harem pants from! We arrived at a clothing department store and I almost instantly picked up two new shirts for less than 1,500yen each!!

What makes them even more amazing, they came as a "2 Set" piece, the shirt on the left is a two shirt piece. The next shirt included leggings, of one leg black and the other with grey stars, cute~! They are both 'batwing' style so they were extra loose and comfortable. Some of the English on the shirts were rather amusing too. Calling your spouse a 'House Boat' wouldn't go down so well back in Europe.
We continued on to the next shop, after deciding Japanese girls have teeny-tiny waists and the shorts on the clothing rail were like XXS. Weeh. The clothing stores were a little like TKMAX back home, but it was still organised and presentable, not like the chaos at TKMAX usually. I managed to pick up another shirt, I was torn between this one and a similar with two crosses on, but obviously I chose the skull one, since my current skull shirt is actually a sweater, and I'm doing enough sweating - euugh. Again another batwing shirt!! But it has cute little diamante detailing on the straps.

Eventually we headed back home and she walked me back since I wasn't 100% sure of the way back yet. So I was thankful for that as my mobile doesn't work here unless I get a WI-FI connection. OTL

Aug 4 2012: My memory is vague on the entire day, but I am pretty sure we went out for Breakfast, which was cute, our kind of 'First dinner date'. It was delicious non the less! Anyway, towards the evening things got lively! My Friend Katie was in Japan also at this time, she was with Ku. I hadn't seen Ku since March this year, and Katie I hadn't seen in over a year maybe longer, despite the fact she lives in the UK. Anyway we had planned a drinking session, or 'nomikai' / 飲み会 to the Japanese. We invited a couple extra people and agreed to meet up in Shibuya at Hachiko. I arrived early with the Boy, and waited for some time before we headed off to get a drink - he got a phone call from a Friend who was waiting at Hachiko already so we headed back. Which I was nervous, I had met his Friend back in March also but I couldn't remember - but we had been speaking via Twitter since then. We arrived and said hello, but the language barrier was a little difficult so I kept quiet for the most of the time while checking on the Boys iPhone to see where Katie was.
Eventually - she jumped me, and I screamed rather loudly which is shocking coming from someone so usually quiet. Haha! We all introduced ourselves, and luckily Ku speaks Japanese also so she translated a lot. At first the Boy was rather nervous about meeting Katie, but I told him Katie was bringing 'Chibi' along with her and he only spoke Japanese also. I asked them to exchanged 'meishi' / 名刺 since they are both in the same industry.
We ended up in an awkward situation where this random girl added herself to the group. It's a common thing in Shibuya, especially if you are stood around Hachiko you get asked by people to go visit their bar or restaurant and they offer you a discount. Well, she stood for some time and it got a little annoying especially since Drummer Boy was exchanging details with her. 'Playboy' we kept shouting.  After more awkward situations and evil glares from the pretty girl, we managed to get away and find our own bar to drink in.

It was such a great night. I asked Drummer Boy to eat the wasabi from my 卵！But he only took a little bit, so I kept asking him to eat it all. We had a lot of fun talking about things, and the Boy eventually seemed comfortable with the situation that he wasn't going to be mauled by Gaijin Girls since there were five of us and only three of them. Eventually Drummer Boy had to leave, but he asked us all to go to his Live that same week. He knew I was already but I was trying to introduce Katie and Ku into the music also~
We did take a couple photos from that night, but a lot of them turned out horrendously bad because I hate using flash. After awhile we all decided it was time to head back before the last trains, but we made plans for the next day also anyway so we would all meet again soon! 楽しー！

❝PiECES❞

こんにちわー
Long time no see~! I'm sorry for the lack of Blogs, once we got home from Isle of Wight I was super busy with a lot of preparations. One of those was homing a new Cat called Sam. He is adorable, with selective deafness. Though the first few nights were horrible with him because of the fights etc. OTL

Miss! Welcome to this new flight called DREAM!

Ride on and enjoy your travel! Please enjoy your time.

Anyway~ right now I am blogging from Japan! To many peoples surprise since I kept it to myself again. I have been here since the 2nd of August. I've done so many things already and we are only just into our second week of being in Japan!
My flight landed in Beijing for a couple hour stop over, it was incredibly hot, I had left London which wasn't even reaching 25C and was wishing for my scarf, but landing in Beijing I had to find the bathroom in order to strip off my multiple layers of stockings and shirts. It was suffocating. Landing in Tokyo wasn't any better either, we had a departure delay, and baggage handling took forever and I was an hour late for my Boyfriend. Luckily he was still waiting - yes I would have died if he wasn't there. It was a little awkward because of how shy he is, and I was just muttering to him about how hot it was. (when we left the airport, I had to go back inside because the AC was like a charm, but he insisted we left) But he did purchase me bottled water which I wanted to toss all over myself. Uggh~

Once we arrived at his place, we took the car back to his Parents place, which I found out the moment we pulled up and his Mother came out with the dog. I felt so shy and looked INCREDIBLY sleepy, so I just worriedly waved from inside the car. Then his Father came back from work at the same time, oh my god. Now I know how Animals in a Zoo feel. （笑）

We went back to his apartment and I handed him his gifts rather timidly. I had come from England with a huge bottle of Vodka and I had spent the past 24+ hours traveling scared it'd break in transit. (I actually still have a bunch of gifts left to give out too)

After awhile of small talk he told me we were going to go drinking with Friends, so I kind of panicked and told him no until he said his Brother and Sister were going to be there. Which eased me, only just a little. Who would have known the language barrier was enough to make you feel a couple inches in height.
However it wasn't THAT intimidating, I met his Brother previously and saw photos of his Sister, and her Boyfriend I had met also already to my surprise! It was really nice, and really welcoming too.
I made shopping plans with his Sister the next day because her harem pants were adorable. 'Ghost pants' - seriously. I wanted them but on her they were good, but she's so much smaller than me. Ah well.

Everyone is going to ask eventually; OMG HOW IS TOKYO?! ... I'm not in Tokyo, I'm in Yokohama, which is interesting and a whole new experience to me. I'm still getting to grips with his location and the train line here, but I can confidently say now I can get to Shibuya from here, haha. Even if it costs a bomb.

I'm going to leave it here for now, the next blog will be the shopping trip + 飲み会！