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Back to Renais

On Wednesday we went back to the entertainment area where we bowled the week before. We rode bikes through a busy area of town that we were completely unfamiliar (Dave and Chris lead, Frances, Jose, and I followed). We had dinner at a McDonald’s at the train station before the movie… Japanese McDonald’s is really amazing; the burgers are made so carefully and beautifully, and they look exactly like on the picture menu.

I had already seen Dawn of the Dead, but the others had not, and I didn’t mind seeing it again. If you think movies are expensive in the US, you should stop complaining, cause tickets in Japan were about $18 each. Being a Wednesday, it was “Ladies’ Night” so girls got in for half price (a bargain at 900 yen).

Japanese theaters give you assigned seatings, so the guys fought over who got to sit next to Frances, but in the end it didn’t even matter since there were only two other people in the whole theater. They also serve beer in the theaters which was a new experience (and an interesting fact — being white in Japan automatically makes you ‘of age’ to drink).

Other than that, it was a pretty ordinary trip to a theater. We rode bikes back in the dark… it was still dangerous, but Japan is so beautiful at night. The lights of the city every are really fantastic.

I waited in the subway with Frances until her train came, and I checked my train schedule and saw that my last train was 15 minutes after hers, giving me plenty of time. (Plus, I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible.) Unfortunately, I read the morning schedule, not the night one… stupid me… and my last train was actually 15 minutes *before* hers! So I went to take a taxi… but realized I was out of money! :-S So I had to, very embarrassed, call up my host family and explain that I read the wrong schedule, and had to borrow money from them to pay for the taxi. They were very nice about it, but I felt horribly foolish anyway. ^_^”