It's been a crazy second week here in Tokyo, getting lots of stuff done and making tough decisions and when it came to 6pm on Friday I had had enough. So, I declared a 'Beer Emergency' and headed out for a drink with Neal and Evvie before dinner. The first bar we went to dubiously insisted they had a Japanese-only party at 7pm and so the three of us were forced to go to the local British pub (the Hobgoblin) while we waited for Hanako to wrap up her last call of the day. We made it in there 20 minutes before the end of happy hour, and when we realized that Hanako was going to be quite a while yet decided to take full advantage of it by ordering several drinks each.
After that we went up the street to a Korean barbecue place where they sit you down on garbage bin seats and grill a bunch of pork and stuff in front of you on the table. They give you protective aprons to catch the spitting and splashing from the cooking meat (Evvie was glad they did as her apron was pretty much covered in it) and large glasses of beer to wash it all down with. The place was tiny, noisy and heaving with lots of local folks letting loose and giggling and we were no exception.
From there we headed to Hanako's favorite - American Darts Cafe Monkeys - for a couple of games of darts. This photo was taken by the darts machine after one of us got a high score and just before I decided I'd had enough and escaped in order to get some sleep before my Saturday morning calls back to California.
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