After awaking and taking Sam-san to rehydrate, we pieced together the previous night and concluded:
Sam Sheppard is more animal than man
He shaved Yugo-san's eyebrow off, and wrote offensive words on his face, including ほも (gay) on the back of his neck.
Oh dear.
We concluded that Sam-san should buy Yugo-san a gift, cue: trip to Halow's.
I treated myself to a burger and grape soda.
Sam-san purchased a gift that none of us (even Toshihiro-san & Kyoko-san) could identify.
We got the train to Kurashiki, specifically the Bikan historical district.
It's sort of a bit like the naff bit of York (Shambles?), but people like old stuff I guess.
There's a river running through it.
It had mahoosive koi and some cute cygnets swimming around in it.
We had a looksie around the shops, one had a load of shiny gold まねきねこ looking a bit like a legoin of nazi soldiers. Scary.
If anybody asks, we went round the O'Hara museum (we only went to the gift shop), I bought this guy:
He holds business cards and pens, I'm gonna call him めいしーさん.
We went and had かき氷 (shaved ice) in a little place, it's like a slush puppy but tastes really good and comes in a bowl. It made a nice change from the million degrees it was outside.
I had lemon.
After this, we found Yugo-san! Sans eyebrow.
Sam-san looked sheepish and gave him his gift, then we went for food and drinks.
It was another all-you-can-drink in 2 hours job, I came across an alcoholic vegetable juice-type thing (sounds horrible I know) but it tasted like a cheeky V so that was my tipple for the eve.
Oh yeah, we found something that Sam-san would not drink, it was Campari & Grapefruit juice (eww).
After we had drank our fill, we went to see "the streets illuminated beautifully".
Turns out they just turn the streetlights on. Oh well.
Since I'd only taken my sunglasses with me I was in complete darkness, but I looked cool.
On the way back we came across a statue of one of the 七福神 (shichifukujin), whom I had been given a keyring of by one of the anaesthetists (think I forgot to mention that).
So, who are the 七福神？ They're the seven lucky gods (a bit like the seven dwarfs).
Again, from wikipedia:
- Hotei - the fat and happy god of abundance and good health.
- Jurojin - god of longevity.
- Fukurokuju - god of happiness, wealth and longevity.
- Bishamonten - god of warriors.
- Benzaiten - goddess of knowledge, art and beauty, especially music.
- Daikokuten - god of wealth, commerce and trade.
- Ebisu - god of fishers or merchance, often depicted carrying a sea bream.
I think we've found Ebisu!
And that concluded our Sunday.
I like that the statement "Sam Sheppard is more animal than man" was worthy of bold typeface.
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