Catching Up and Brad's Birthday!

Whew! This past month flew by!

After Octoberfest we went out to celebrate Brad's birthday by going to eat some yummy Frijoles and then stayed at a club all night until we could catch 1st train home. This was the first club that we had been to since coming to Japan and it was a lot of fun to just completely lose track of time and dance! It was funny though because I think there were more foreigners in the club than Japanese people. I'm always curious about where other foreigners are from, what they are doing in Japan etc. but unfortunately there seems to be kind of like an unwritten rule that foreigners don't really talk to each other here. I kind of equate it to the feeling of your freshman year in college. For example, you're walking around on campus and you walk past someone that you went to high school with. You weren't friends with this person in high school and have never really talked before. Should you say hi to them out of recognition? Or because you never talked to them in high school should you just keep walking? I feel kind of the same way walking around in Tokyo because, let's face it, we stick out.  But I guess nobody wants to be stopped every few minutes just to have the same conversation over and over again. But I do love how international Tokyo is! You never really know what language you're going to hear spoken each day. 

Anyway, we had some burritos, did some karaoke, went to a club, and had our only theft of the year--our umbrellas during a typhoon! We left our umbrellas where everybody else had left them at the club (in the umbrella rack where they want you to put them so you don't drip all over the floors inside) and when we came out ALL the umbrellas were gone, there was not one left. Haha! So we were walking though Tokyo in the middle of the night during a typhoon. Oh, I also forgot to mention that I had decided to wear my very cute, yet very uncomfortable black boots out and ended up walking through the busiest station in the world in my socks because I literally could not take another step in my very cute boots! :) 

Here's some pictures:

Yum! Honey Toast! On your birthday at the karaoke place that we go to, they give you free honey toast. Well, apparently they were confused when Brad was spelling his name for them so they decided to write it twice just to be sure... lol

When they bring the honey toast they also take your picture. This is a picture of a picture by the way...And that's Chris' very nice friend and coworker Aki in the picture with us. 

And that's about it for pictures that weekend...