We are both feeling somewhat delicate this morning. I'll start at the beginning.
Yesterday, we went to Ebisu for the afternoon, and had a lovely time. Such a nice place, lots of cafes and fantastic shops, including a Benugo!!! and also my favourite shop ever..... those who know me know what it is, but I'm not saying on the blog in case everyone else catches on. Top secret! As soon as we arrived, we headed to Ebisu Garden Place, and seated ourselves in Benugo to settle down to lunch! Went down quite a treat after our recent exploits in Ikebukuro's questionable establishments.
I expect you're jealous already. Anyway after lunch we wandered round the area, had a look in the shops, and OH MY GOD THERE IS AN EARTHQUAKE GOING ON RIGHT NOW AS I'M TYPING!!!!!! It is definitely not my imagination or that bloody nomihoudai from last night, the room was shaking. I think it's stopped? Jesus H.
Back to the blog..... we spotted loads of restaurants we liked the look of, definitely going back there! An Indian, Thai, and lots of others that looked really good! Jerome think's she's got an aversion to Japanese food so we're steering clear of that in future, can't say I think it'll be any loss either.
Here's a selection of typical Robson and Jerome (also now known as Jerobson or Robome) photos:
This is a restaurant inside, we didn't go in but looks quite nice. At the back of Ebisu Garden Place.
Good old self timer. hahahaaa...
This is the indian restaurant, I'm not sure the picture does it justice but it was busy, menu looked really good so we'll try that soon! I hope it lives up to the one in Harajuku...
The main area as you leave the station as it was starting to get dark. This was only about 5pm, gets dark so early here.
So that was the day time. We'd then planned to go out with some friends from Ocha, for Mirja's birthday! The plan was nomihoudai (aka all you can drink) then onto kareoke. We got back to Jerome's halls, where we met up with Dunja, Mirja and Zuza, and set off to the izakaya, en route collecting Lin as well (why do I have your phone charm on my phone? It's a flashing corona bottle..)
The izakaya was really good, much better than some others we've been to. Food highlights were lots of seafood which we cooked ourselves on table top barbeque style things. Here is Jerome getting friendly with a prawn.
Amazing. Slightly less amazing though were the drinks. Should have guessed with it being nomihoudai that we weren't likely to be presented with Cloudy Bay or even a Pinot Grigio, but we were not prepared for what we had.
Jerome believed one barrel to be 'plum wine'. It was definitely not plum wine, apparently it was some shochu-based drink (closer to sake, it was also revolting) but in trooper Robome style we necked half a pint each of it. We had a few more unidentifiable drinks for the next 2 hours, then proceeded to head to kareoke down the road. When we got there, Jerome decides she isn't feeling too clever, so we had a sit down and an attempt at sobering up (remember Jerome is something of a lightweight) but it soon became clear that 1 - we were not sobering up any time soon and 2, that Jerome was feeling much worse than she'd first let on. We decided it was best to get her home, so Lin and I (thank you again!) took Jerome back to her room. I won't embarrass Jerome with the details on here, just ask me for the full story later but suffice to say I did have to physically put her in her pjs and into bed. Neither will I embarrass her with the hour at which we went to bed...
Woke up this morning feeling really rough, splitting headache, stiff neck (two to a futon is not comfy) and the realisation that I was still in the halls that I'm not technically supposed to even go through the door of.... oops. Smuggled me out in the morning and headed to the supermarket, J pop covers of T Rex didn't help our heads and I am now in my pjs once again at 2.25pm, and do not plan on getting dressed for the rest of the day. Even the woman in the supermarket was alarmed at the state of us, she came running over with cups of some white milk/soy concotion, shouting 'it is good for your health! please drink!' No joke. Thank god I had my sunglasses with me for the journey home.
Now to rustle up some lunch, where's Dad's cheese on toast when you need it?
Update: I definitely didn't imagine the earthquake, both Micah and Axel also felt it. Phew.
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