sushi for breakfast

4.30am. The alarm goes off. A tired but excited little half-cast falls out of bed and rolls herself in to the shower. "Why at this ungoodnessly hour????" I hear you ask? Well She was told by the others that they wanted to go to the fish market/auction in Tsukiji. That ends at 6.30am...so there is the explanation. We set off a little late due to some habituation induced ignoring of alarm clocks with some people :p. We then proceeded to get it a little wrong with getting off at the correct stop. Amelia and Tamera saw this as a grand opportunity to pull out their negotiation skills. It was rather admirable actually. The person at our (wrong) station phoned to the correct station to warn them of a bunch of (probably using the word "very silly") Gaiijin, who should be let through. It worked, we got on to the tube again with no ticket and at our exit we already had the guy waiting for us going "ah the wrong station people?". So that was pretty class.

Upon exiting we could already smell the distinct fishy odour, which lead us to a very busy warehouse that was buzzing with strange little carriages that had the biggest stearing wheel I have ever seen. The rule was...they rule - so get out of the way. We then got in to the actual fish part and it was pretty cool. There were all sorts of fish, crabs,shell fish, anything you could pull out of the ocean (that was legal), was on display half alive or dead. The most mesmerizing thing were the massive tuna fish, which were being sawn in to pieces with literally one of those electric saws you have in design tech class at school! There was quite a bit of blood in places, and you really could watch the fresh killing of things. I don't recommend this place to vegetarians or people with hearts. We then went off to the side streets, where we had been informed we could find cheap and fresh sushi. We discovered this place with good deals, and had sushi for breakfast. It was pretty good! It was all freshly prepared in front of our eyes. I have to say I am not a big fan of fish eggs...or squid on rice. We were all soooo stuffed after that though.

We then went off to find the Ginza park for some chilling. The park was quite pretty and we got chatting to a mother and her 5 year old (cuuuute) son. They had the day off today because yesterday apparently was mother and son day, so today was a holiday. He was lovely and I had a fun round of "who can pull the funniest face?" with him. His mother was trying to encourage him to speak what little English he had learnt at school, so it was a great opportunity for us to try out some eliciting skills. We found a cool kimono shop with beautiful yukatas (summer kimonos) I tried one on and fell in love. But patience...till the first pay cheque.
The girls then decided they wanted to go home and rest so Anthony and me went off to Akihabara on our own to look for SLR prices and various things. We had the most amazing coffee at this place...it was iced coffee with Mr. Whippy style ice cream on top. NIIICE! We then visited this Russian orthodox church, and learnt a little about icons, traditions and things. It was quite interesting really and the church was beautiful.

Now I am seriously crashing on just my 4 hours of sleep I had......argh....