You're Handsome Like Will Smith (9/10)

Hey everybody. Miss me? Yeah it's only been a day and not many of you probably even read this, but who cares! HAH.

Anyways, It's 1:37AM 9/11/2013 but I'll write about the day I had on the 10th. (Should be asleep -- Japanese and Business class tmw)

Anyways, today, like the past few days, have been quite beautiful and fair tempered. Me and a few other people while at our friend Derek's apartment in Global House decided that we were going out today. SO me, Derek, Tiffany, Cathy, and 3 more addons (Juju, Julia, and Mike) planned on going to Ueno Park for the Zoo.

Before that, however, I met up with ICU Hub to chat and hang out with them for about 20 minutes before having to meet up with my other friends going to Ueno. We agreed to meet at 1:30pm so by 1:30pm I was waiting in the Cafeteria. After finding Juju and Derek, I got some Veggie Curry from the Cafeteria and had my lunch while we figured out the logistics / chatted / wasted time.

By 2:00pm we were finally on our way to Ueno. We took the #93 bus to Musashi-sakai Station where we met this nice exchange student named Niki who gave us advice on Fuji.

 At Musashi-sakai, we saw a Taiyaki Truck. We all pooled our money (100 yen each) and got a 16-set of Taiyaki... 2 of each flavor.

While ordering, he looked and me and went something like "Ahhh, handsome!" followed by a "Will Smith". All I could really do is nod, chuckle, and thank him. I don't really see the resemblance between me and Will Smith, but I guess he was talking about the height... A minute later, he noticed Mike and once again said "Ahh, handsome! Macho Man!" LOL. The whole situation wasn't awkward at all, and he was really nice. He was a good person to have a conversation with and was really nice to all of us. He was speaking English to us, and asked us if we were from America, which we responded with an obvious "yes".

On the ride from Musashi-sakai Station to Kanda, where we would make our transfer for Ueno on the Yamanote Line

After getting to the Ueno Station, we walked around and realized the time. It was already like 3:30pm and everything seemed to be closing between 1-1.5hrs. We concluded that we didn't have enough time for the zoo, so we used Niki's advice and tried to get into the National Science Museum for free instead. IT WORKED!.

We first went into this 360 Theater thing that gave us about a 10 minute video of how the earth was made, and how humans came to be. It was a real quick explanation of science and evolution, but I couldn't understand any of it (besides a few words here and there). The narrator's voice was quite epic and the experience overall was awesome as well.

Next, we just hopped from exhibit from exhibit. We checked out old telescopes and clocks, Stuffed Animals (Like...Taxidermized) that were (I'm assuming) native to Japan as well as old ancient species

 a VERY VERY detailed model human evolution type thing for the Japanese

2nd Ancient Japanese Display

3rd Ancient Japanese Display

4th Ancient Japanese Display

5th Ancient Japanese Display

Geological rock formations found in Japan, and probably a few more other things.

A fossilied ancient tree

Mammoth skull / Jaw (see the teeth)

OHH. Apparently there were a few stuffed dogs, which I guess displayed the dog breeds indigenous to Japan. Only after looking at a postcard of Hachi (the famous dog who demonstrated crazy loyalty to his owner by waiting at the train station everyday for him to come home, even after he passed away despite the fact he'd never come back) did I realize that ONE OF THOSE STUFFED DOGS WERE HACHI! :O :O :O :O :O :O :O  :O. That was a crazy realization.... but anyways. We browsed the gift store and head out...

.... THE POSTCARD OF HACHI IN THE EXHIBIT!!!

 After leaving we all got a cool little key chain of cute animal things for 200 YEN each in a vending machine and left for food.

We got food and hung around this place street full of stores/shops called Ameyayokocho, that was just a ways down the Ueno Station. On our way there we took pictures with a giant whale statue, and saw the Tokyo Skytree that was in Sumida-ku and realized that we were actually quite close to the place.

For food we went to some sushi boat place that advertised 105 YEN sushi on the front, but in reality, had different plates charging anywhere between 95 - 499 yen. The service was horrible and the sushi even wasn't that great.

We all sort of complained about it to ourselves, then left. The group sort of split off at that point. Cathy and Tiffany went home, and Julia and Mike went on their own to explore Ameyayokocho. Me Derek and Juju followed derek into a Camera store, and after that sort of just walked down the street. We met up with Julia and Mike again, and at that point Juju joined them so me and Derek went to the Camera store again to figure out how to work a remote thing that Derek had bought on the first trip in. After that we went to the 2nd / 3rd floor to the PC / Electronics section to see if I could find a cheap 1TB Portable Hard Drive. While they did have it, it wasn't cheap. They priced the damn thing at like 9860 YEN or something (~100 dollah) so I definitely did not end up buying it.

After that we walked back to the station, headed home, and relaxxxxxed.

The end!

It's 2:00am now, so I really should go to sleep.... Tomorrow I have JAP @ 2nd+3rd Period, then BUS @ 5th+6th+7th Period V_V, so I have to wake up by like 8:00am and be ready for class that starts at 10:10am...
ANYWAYS, OYASUMI.