Tokyo

At the last minute (literally) I decided to go to Tokyo with a couple of friends. It was great. I finally woke up early enough to go to the fish market on Saturday. And by early, I mean 5:00 a.m. As you can see from the picture, I was wearing sandals. This was a horrible idea. There were fishy puddles everywhere and my feet couldn't always avoid them.


It was amazing to watch the chaos in an otherwise extremely organized country. We walked around for a while and just soaked it all in, then we ate sushi for breakfast. That's right, after looking at dead (and some not-so-dead) fish for hours, we had sushi. At 7:30 in the morning. It was tasty.

After the market, we walked around the city and took a boat tour on the river. The temperature was perfect and it was nice to sit down for a while. It was very pleasant.

That night, we experienced the other highlight of the weekend- a Japanese Beatles cover band. We'd heard that it was something we really should see, so we ran through the pouring rain to get to this club. They were really great. It was just funny to hear them singing the songs in English (sometimes with a slight accent) and get totally caught up in listening to the Beatles, then get thrown off when they started speaking Japanese in between songs. A couple of them even looked like the band members.
This was "John" (who, in profile, really looked like him). We had huge crushes on him.