Fourteen Hour Days? Ha. Try Twenty

Honto. Sometimes this town still has the ability to kick my ass.

On Friday, i worked all day, then went out for drinks, right? Right. Saturday morning came waaaay to early, but with five hours of sleep under my chronically-state-of-exhausted mental belt, I set off with Dave and the knowledge that it was going to be at least a fourteen hour day of sightseeing and meeting various people to do various things.

I was only off by about eight hours.

I was up early, about seven and I got ready and wrangled Dave a bit and then we headed off to Ginza to run an errand at The Kaisha. After that, we had coffee at Ginza station and from there we traveled to Tsukiji to meet a woman I know from the school. As she showed us around Tsukiji, we waited for her boyfriend to join us for a sushi lunch. We had a fabulous lunch and conversation, then we went to Jimbocho and wandered around the used bookstalls. Never a one to pass up a hobbyists magazine, I bought several back issues of a magazine called Sarai. Leaving Jimboco, Dave and I went to Ginza, to have dinner in another restaurant called Kai, which is run by a woman who takes lessons at The Kaisha. After dinner, we went to Seitetsu's tiny bar in Ginza and drank (with the woman from the restaurant) until four a.m.

This is Tokyo, kids. This is my city.

Today, we're off to Omotesando, to the Meiji Jingu shrine and to "go to shopping" for some omiyage.

Hope you are well....

Details will follow...someday.