The past week

It was really great having Wouter here last week. I’m going up to Tokyo next weekend, so I was pretty lazy this weekend. Well, I worked all day Saturday, I got 4 loads of laundry done, and I went out in the heat of the day today but still it seemed like I did a lot of nothing.

I was able to take Thursday off and travel up to Tokyo with Wouter. He quickly realized that Tokyo is a lot busier than Nagoya. We met Tomo in Marunouchi, had lunch, and then went to Bic Camera (bi-ca, bi-ca, bi-ca, bic ca-me-ra) to check out some new cameras for Tomo.

Wouter and I then went on an open roof bus tour that I definitely do not recommend. I took him to Shinjuku and overwhelmed him with Kabukicho. As a result, we passed up Shibuya and headed to Roppongi Hills to check out the City View.

I didn’t realize we could go outside on the 54th floor. But you can! Cool! So I was on the roof of Roppongi Hills, hanging out around the helipad.

We met Tomo for dinner. It was good because Wouter and I were so hungry that we were getting grumpy and couldn’t really make a decision. Tomo had a suggestion for us.

After dinner we went to Shibuya so Wouter could see the crazy intersection and then headed to Shinagawa and back to Nagoya.

I had the opportunity to work with my new camera while Wouter was visiting. I’m starting to dig it. All the pictures in the entry are from my nice, new camera. A few others in black and white are below.