This weekend was a lot of fun!!! Erica's birthday was Saturday (June 12th) and she finally reached the ripe old age of 23! She insisited on telling me all day long that we were finally the same age...failing to recognize that it will only be that way for 2 short months..and regardless I'm still the older sister. That's what I've come to consider her as. We're great friends and talk just about every day and we argue like siblings as well. Although we've never come out and said, "You're my sister" we definitely act the part. Sometimes words are just not necessary, ya know.
Anyway, so I went up to Tokyo to hang out with her. We had dinner at Sizzler in Harajuku with Saitama Chris and Chiba Monique. That's the way I've come to name people because you meet so many people with the same name that you can't distingush in simple conversation. Anyway dinner was GREAT. I had cocktail shrimp for starters a nice herb chicken breast with white wine for the entree. Best meal I've had out in a while. After that we went to Shibuya and met up with some folks. We went to this place called Club Vuenos (where my wallet was stolen back in May) and the cover was like 3000yen to get in. Couldn't see it! I don't even like that place. I suggested we go to Roppongi because there are a lot of clubs there and a lot of them don't have a cover. That way if we don't like the vibe we have the option of going elsewhere. People finally agreed to this and we went by cab to the Roppongi area.
I ran into a few of my homeboys on the street out there and they were going to this place called A Life. I had been there before with Dwayne and Ray (two of my boys) during Dwayne's last night out. Anyway, we tried to go there but Saitama Chris had on shorts and sandals so they wouldn't let him in. We think it had something to do with the "Gaijin" factor. . .but nonetheless we didn't bother with it, we just took ourselves to another place.
The main thing I DON'T like about Roppongi is the Africans there. They try to MAKE you do some shit. Its really annoying. Like, we'd be walking down the street and all of a sudden you have 5 of them in your face trying to influence you to come to their club and they have drink coupons for you and so on. Well, they convinced one of the people that was with us to try this place called "The Limit" we were walking towards the club and Erica and I stopped to talk. I guess we weren't moving fast enough for them so this one dude started tapping Erica on her back kinda hard and talking fast at her. Of course there was an exchange of word followed by Erica imitating him with the same type of slapping on the back. It was funny. So we spent our night at "The Limit" and this other bar called "Midas". Midas was definitely the better of the two. Nice atmosphere and the drinks were on point! I ended up running in to Ray there with his friend that Erica and I so kindly nicknamed "Chi-town". He was funny! He and Erica were "Steppin' in the name of Love" it was funny.
We left Midas as the sun was bright and shining about 7am. Half of our original crew: Monique, Ameenah, Morrall, Saitama Chris, Shaun, Erica and I was then dwindled down to 3. Me, Monique and Erica. We took it down the street to this club called "Nature". Yes, we went to another club at 7am! Stayed there til about 11 and keep the partying going! It was awesome.
I got home about 2:30 in the afternoon on Sunday and was BEAT!!!! But, I still had a Private English Lesson (that I teach) and my Japanese class to go to. So, I went home showered, washed my hair and fell asleep (by accident). I was 30 mins late to my 4pm lesson because of my little nap but they understood. After my lessons, my Japanese teacher invited me to stay for dinner and being the person I am...I accepted of course! Had a good dinner and left about 9:30. What a day. Didn't lay down to sleep until about 11pm. And today as I type my body is TIRED and my kidneys even hurt! Can you believe that. I need to ease up fa sho.
