Tripping Far Side

So Saturday. I crashed at 8 AM, and slept until 3:30 PM, so today was pretty shot. I felt pretty hungover, but I think it was much better thanks to Dante's ibuprofen.

Anyway, Dante and I went to go meet up with the 2 wild ones of the Miki Crew, Laura and Gareth in Kobe. These two are always the life of the party; it's never a dull moment. It felt really natsukashii to hang out with them again. We started off by catching up at my favorite Indian restaurant in Sannomiya, called Chalte Chalte. Awesome awesome curry, and in my opinion, better than any Indian restaurant that I've tried in Seattle so far.

We walked to several bars around Sannomiya. The first was Second Chance, but I wasn't in the mood for reggae music or nomihodai (for shame!).

Then we walked to Trinity, where we had a round. Funny, I paid the waiter 500 yen, but it was really 600 yen. So I gave him 1000 yen and got my 500 yen back. So, he owed me 500 yen, but gave me back 1000 yen. Yay, a free Sol beer!

We went to go wait for Laura's boyfriend Shige at what I call T&A park (AKA Tits Park AKA Oppai Koen AKA Concrete Park). A popular place to wait and meet people, or just hang out with a few beers and chat. Often, bands are here playing music. The nicknames for this area makes sense when you see these mounds of concrete that look like boobs. And recently, a weird statue of naked asses got put in. And look at Gareth giving the reach around!

After we met up with Shige, we went to Ryan's, an Irish pub. I have to mention that Shige is kickass at junken. He beat all of us like 8 out of 10 times we played against him. Gareth was explaining that there's a world rock-paper-scissors championship in Toronto, and that Shige should compete. We had a round here until, what looked like the Japanese salaryman band started playing.

The next stop was the Hub, an English pub. Another round here as well. I saw that they served Absinthe so I made an order. They said it was the real thing, with wormwood, but who knows for sure. Anyway, Gareth said that there's an awesome absinthe bar in Shinsaibashi, so we'll go hang there next time.

I couldn't make the night past last train though. A few beers tonight was all I could do (for shame!). But I'm sure I'll be coming back to Japan sometime again, so there'll always be time for the Miki Crew.