12/25

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Today I slept in late (again) and then Kim and I decided to go to Sakae and view the Christmas lights and maybe do some shopping. We decided to bike to Hongo station to save ourselves the bus fare. We were already late leaving and we were trying to meet one of our gaijin friends Erica.  So we rushed there and found a place to park our bikes (for a great deal of only 100 yen per day!) Then we quickly paid and caught the train. So we were suppose to get off at Sakae station but for some reason we got off at Imaike. I think I just wasn't paying attention or something. So there we were wandering around trying to find Erica. It was so ridiculous. Kim actually asked me at one point if we were at the right station, AND I was looking at the map with the kanji for the station (which I knew was wrong), I still I was like "no this is Sakae." I don't know what was going on in my head. Eventually I admitted that we weren't in the right place and we got back on the train and got off at Sakae. We found Erica and we immediately decided to go eat parfaits for Christmas. So we walked a few blocks over to Parco (an expensive but massive department store) and on the 8th floor was the eating areas. I ordered a delicious ice cream parfait but skipped ordering food because it was a bit pricey. Once we were done Erica went back to Proxy and Kim and I headed out for burgers at a different restaurant. I ordered the always good teriyaki burger; I'll miss them once I'm back state side. So we walked for a while taking pictures and window shopping before taking the train back to our bikes. On the way back it started to snow. I'm sure we'll have a lovely white Christmas.

4am. It snowed and everything is completely COVERED! I'm going to go out later and make a snowman

2pm. Just woke up. Almost all the snow melted. sob.