friday nite
met up with yu and his parents @ magomezawa eki. yu's mom made a slammin' meal. masumi showed me a matrix trailer....on his gba!!! man, that guy knows a lot of stuff bout electronics. there's no better guy to ask 'bout info, prices, etc... especially now that he works in the mecca which is akihabara.
da weekend in ito
this weekend the nikkei crew in tokyo set up this onsen trip to ito for andy (dr. andy to be exact, really smart guy, undergrad caltech, cal grad school, engineer, makes chips for phones and stuff) and mutsuko's farewell trip. they'll be movin' to los gatos in 3 weeks. 10 people total: rick & mika, sean & misuzu, andy & mutsuko, bryan, junji, bryan nose and myself.
met up with bnose (bryan nose, from da bay, played j-league, works for nova) @ nishifunabashi. when we got to shinjuku, man...we got lost. not that rick gave us some bad directions but shinjuku station is crazy. probably one of the busiest places in the kanto area. there are so more exits than you can imagine. but anywayz...
we finally met up with them after wanderin' around the station for like 40 min! it took about 2 hours by train w/some transfers to get to ito. we had a nice view of the pacific ocean while ridin' on the train. got to our ryokan and chilled for a few hours before dinner.
dinner was right across the street. it was recommended by rick and mika, who have been there before. we had some bomb @$$ food there: tonyuu nabe, tai, pork, stir fry and even some boar along with it's head!!! we all took pics of this monstrous lookin' thing. you just have to see it to fully understand what it was like. bryan tanaka was constantly fallin' asleep @ the table. we made sure to get pics of that.
after dinner, we stopped off @ the local family mart to get some ice cream. went back to the room, inhaled the ice cream and chilled a little bit before goin' to the onsen. since junji, bryan and sean were all passed out, they didn't go until after we came back.
the next day, we hit up the onsen again. almost walked into the womens' one cuz they switch the baths everyday. luckily rick was there to let me know. after that, we went to eat breakfast and then packed up and headed out. we decided to stop off at these cliffs with this suspension bridge. we overlooked the pacific ocean and it was beautiful to just chill on the rocks. took a cab back to the station and we all went back home.
bnose and i had some more problems gettin' back but it's all good. the fact that we got back to funabashi was all we needed.
this weekend trip was something i totally needed. to get away, breathe fresh air & go to an onsen with your crew...all the stress/worries/etc never crossed my mind once. it definitely recharged me for the next comin' weeks. this trip will go down in the history books! pics will be uploaded shortly...
ps. shouts out to mika for organizin' the trip
next trip: hokkaido baby!!!
met up with yu and his parents @ magomezawa eki. yu's mom made a slammin' meal. masumi showed me a matrix trailer....on his gba!!! man, that guy knows a lot of stuff bout electronics. there's no better guy to ask 'bout info, prices, etc... especially now that he works in the mecca which is akihabara.
da weekend in ito
this weekend the nikkei crew in tokyo set up this onsen trip to ito for andy (dr. andy to be exact, really smart guy, undergrad caltech, cal grad school, engineer, makes chips for phones and stuff) and mutsuko's farewell trip. they'll be movin' to los gatos in 3 weeks. 10 people total: rick & mika, sean & misuzu, andy & mutsuko, bryan, junji, bryan nose and myself.
met up with bnose (bryan nose, from da bay, played j-league, works for nova) @ nishifunabashi. when we got to shinjuku, man...we got lost. not that rick gave us some bad directions but shinjuku station is crazy. probably one of the busiest places in the kanto area. there are so more exits than you can imagine. but anywayz...
we finally met up with them after wanderin' around the station for like 40 min! it took about 2 hours by train w/some transfers to get to ito. we had a nice view of the pacific ocean while ridin' on the train. got to our ryokan and chilled for a few hours before dinner.
dinner was right across the street. it was recommended by rick and mika, who have been there before. we had some bomb @$$ food there: tonyuu nabe, tai, pork, stir fry and even some boar along with it's head!!! we all took pics of this monstrous lookin' thing. you just have to see it to fully understand what it was like. bryan tanaka was constantly fallin' asleep @ the table. we made sure to get pics of that.
after dinner, we stopped off @ the local family mart to get some ice cream. went back to the room, inhaled the ice cream and chilled a little bit before goin' to the onsen. since junji, bryan and sean were all passed out, they didn't go until after we came back.
the next day, we hit up the onsen again. almost walked into the womens' one cuz they switch the baths everyday. luckily rick was there to let me know. after that, we went to eat breakfast and then packed up and headed out. we decided to stop off at these cliffs with this suspension bridge. we overlooked the pacific ocean and it was beautiful to just chill on the rocks. took a cab back to the station and we all went back home.
bnose and i had some more problems gettin' back but it's all good. the fact that we got back to funabashi was all we needed.
this weekend trip was something i totally needed. to get away, breathe fresh air & go to an onsen with your crew...all the stress/worries/etc never crossed my mind once. it definitely recharged me for the next comin' weeks. this trip will go down in the history books! pics will be uploaded shortly...
ps. shouts out to mika for organizin' the trip
next trip: hokkaido baby!!!
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月曜日, 2月 23, 2004.
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