4-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday was an awesome day! we ( Joe, Brendan, Doran, Luke, Missy and me) went to Tokyo yesterday. Joe had to go and pick up his mum at Narita later and wanted to have a chilled out day in Meguro first. First stop - Meguro parasitological museum! Truly scary, fascinating disgusting place. The best thing was the tape worm that was 8.8m long. Imagine that inside you...not pleasant. I thought It was interesting that all the parasites either came in the form of worm like creatures or insect like creatures...I guess it's adaption to fit and move around efficiently in the body/digestive system? We also found that Numazu area has shistosomias! ahhhhh scary one! Don't swim aorund in still lakes. I wish they could have had info in english though...there were some pretty disturbing images, yet I didn't know how they were caused...but luckily missy was there to translate a little bit. The weather was pretty rubbish so afterwards we went and sought refuge in a coffee shop until things cleared a bit. We then walked along the river to meet Doran at the station. That place must be beautiful in springtime/summer when everything is blooming. I really thought I could like in that area. There is something with rivers running through a suburb of apartment blocks which really appeals to me. It felt very european...or even german. There were sakura (cherry blossom) trees all along the river bank...so when they are in bloom..it must be amazing. We then went to this tiny tiny mexican bar and had a few drinks. The owner was really happy that I was singing along to her Kt tunstall CD she had on. We then went off to Shibuya to meet with Brendan. I do love that part of Japan. If you want proper stereotype Tokyo with the massive zebra crossings and the lights - go to shibuya. We were trying to find Brendans place that he was going to move to and ended up in the love hotel section...I think it was actually love hotel hill. It's amazing.....technically a seedy place...but actually so peaceful and quiet...and all the hotels looked so cool! There were various themes...like egyptian gardens, even a library themed one!!!!! Totally appealed to the geek inside me! Brendan then suggested going to this posh restaurant which turned out to be one of the themed restaurants in Tokyo. It was gothic themed! I was actually in paradise! All that was missing was Vampires walking around the place in 18th century clothing smiling cheekily. It was so dark and magnificant..with massive glass chandeliers and paintings on the walls. Everything was very chic. The waiters were pretty cool and looked very gothic and androgynous too. If you're in to that kinda thing, I recommend going!

After that we went to an irish pub for a quick pint of guinness (well water for me) in honour of st patricks day which is soon. It was surreal! There were st. Patricks day decorations everywhere! It felt just like being in England! Only that the pub was filled with Japanese people...so no brawling or swearing. Was so good! we then made our way back. Why is the journey back always so much longer...or feel longer than the journey there? we did have entertainment though. The liverpool Man U game was on while we were stuck on the train. Brendan is a huge liverpool fan and naturally I was due to my english ties (martin...you must be SO happy right now). So Brendan was constantly getting updates from the BBC on his phone. He was gettin increasingly frustrated at the amount of tunnels that kept cutting out the internet! Luckily I had the amazing Alex to send me updates. So when the final score came in all that could be heard on the platform was F**** YEAH!!!! F****ING YEAH!!!!! OMG!!!! YEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!

hahahah so yeah...that ended the day perfectly....