last few weeks

So Japan has their own version of “Who wants to be a millionare”.  Not the best topic to start on but I wanted to say it before I forgot.  I could tell what it was immediately because the host looked like a Asian Regis Philbin.  The one thing that made this version funnier was than the american counterpart was the famous pause.  You thought regis was a jerk for making people wait so long to find out if they were right or not, the japanese guy was like 10 times worse.  I wish I would have timed him one time.  It honestly must have been like half a minute.  What a jerk.

So, I am back in about a 2 weeks.  Yay.   But I still gotta go out in style.  My company took me on a little field trip to the Osaka bay area aquarium.  SO COOL.  I have photos of it uploaded if anyone wants to see.  It was so cool.  They had these HUGE tank.  I mean it must have been 4 stories tall.  They had all kind of oceanic fish and mammals in there.  When I first got up to the tank there was somebody in there feeding the giant stingray and I do mean giant.  The things were bigger than him.  He had about 4 or 5 swarming all over him to get some food and the guy reaches out and shoves the giant sting ray hard in the face.  THE DUDE PIMP SLAPPED A GIANT STING RAY.  Right in front of me too.  At that moment I was all like “Okay he’s pretty brave.”  Then the next second a 10 meter long whale shark pops up about a foot in front  of me.  I went from the guys brave to THE GUYS NUTS, he’s swimming with jaws over there.  Seriously if you could have seen this thing the way I did.  It literally snuck up on me.  I was at the corner of a tank and he came swoping past me.  Fantastic.  They also had a bunch of exotic fish too.  They were okay I guess.  But they also had huge exhibits with dolphins, penguins, seals, and otters.  All of them through giant tanks so you could see them swim all the way to the bottom and come back up again.  I liked the seals best.  They had a few pups with them that would just swim up to the tank and stare at you with their cute little eyes.  So much fun.  The rest of the day was spent in the bay area looking at stores and stuff.  Though we did get to go to a Cafe du Monde they had which was so cool because they had photos from the real one.  I pointed to one of them and yelled “Dude, I was so there.  That exact spot…..THERE……I was there a few months ago.”  I felt so proud.  Got to eat some Beneits too.

Then we got back to the company and my coworkers started handing out going away presents.  My friend Reona gave me two free passes to Universal Studio Japan.  I can’t wait to get there and check out the Japanese spider man ride.  It was fun in Florida so it better be fun here too.  Another co worker gave me a sumo bansuke.  Here is the explanation: It is basically the lisiting of the most famous wrestlers in Japan at the time it was printed, as well as lesser known sumo, judges, and sponsers.  First thing I do when I get back is getting it framed.  It is so cool.

I also have one last update…..sometime(I don’t know when) while I was working in my video company my wallet got zapped and all my bank cards won’t work know.  At least they won’t swipe.  So getting money is now a little more difficult.  Also I found out my plane leaves at 830 which means i must get there by 600.  Kyoto is 2 hours away from the airport so I would have to leave at 400.  There aren’t any trains or buses that run that early.  This is called a conundrum.  So that’s it.