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[4am-sorrow]

🖤🖤🖤🖤Nobody cared for me like you did. I love you baby boy🖤🖤🖤🖤

[traveladventurespart6]

We’re on the train to Tokyo Station, which is where the girls' shinkansen is leaving from.  Tomo keeps making fun of how sad I’m getting the closer we get to the station.

Buuuuuut we’re on the Yamanote Line, which is my favorite train line in Tokyo!  Why, you ask?  Well, the Yamanote Line goes in a circle.  Therefore, it is impossible to get lost on it!  If you get on a train going the wrong way you just stay on the train until it comes back around!  If you miss your stop, you can just stay on the train until it circles back!  Last year, my hotel was in Shinjuku so I almost exclusively took the Yamanote Line while I was in Tokyo.

Also, anywhere that’s marked with the yellow handles means you can’t use cell phones or other electronic devices in that area.  Pretty neat, huh?

And yeah, I took a pic of our feet.  What of it?  :P

[psyentifically-minded]

Predatory creatures such as large oceanic water scorpions developed to feed on the other available lifeforms and the mushrooms that found themselves on land had enough space to grow into huge spiral and tube shaped structures known as early prehistoric trees, these would eventually develop into the trees we know today however they would keep reminants of their mushroom ancestry, for example modern trees are often connected by the roots to large networks of fungal mycelium root collectives, tress uses these networks to send information and nutrients to one another much like we use the internet as an information highway today, alongside this many kinds of mushrooms share symbiotic or parasitic connections with certain trees and will not grow without them.

[traveladventurespart6]

Hana and I are back from dinner and are finally getting around to watching “The Emperor’s New Groove,” which Hana has never seen.  Meanwhile, it’s really started raining outside (we had to close the window) and I’ve decided to eat this strange ice cream I bought at 7-Eleven.

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Tomo-san and me goofing off.

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Chilling out on the front steps of the hotel while Tomo-san and Ken-chan take a smoke break.  I was trying to tell them about my friend who’s house-sitting for me, but couldn’t figure out the right words to use, when Tomo-san was like, “Oh, rusuban.”  The word sounded familiar to me, so I looked it up in my phone (pic 1) and the reason why I knew it is because it’s the first half of the Japanese word for answering machine, “rusuban denwa.”  “Denwa” is “phone” in Japanese.  And, after seeing the meaning for “rusuban” (I thought it was a set word rather than a combination of two), which is “care-taking, house-sitting, and/or house-watching,” it totally makes sense!  I mean, if you really think about it, an answering machine is a phone that kinda takes care of the house by answering the phone for you when you’re unable to.

I also found this salty lychee-flavored chocolate in my purse (pics 2-3), which I decided to give a try.  I wouldn’t have thought that salt and lychee would go together, but they totally do!

Btw, can I just say that construction stuff in Japan is just the cutest (pic 4)????

[traveladventurespart6]

In the first picture, Kei is eating sea urchin *shudder*.  Then we’ve got a selfie with Yoshi-kun (green shirt) and Rei-chan looking adorable as she, too, chows down on sea urchin.  In the fourth and fifth pics, Kei’s got some kind of eggs (cooked crab eggs?) and Sensei is on her phone about to drop her chopsticks in the sand.

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Koshimizu-san and everyone getting something ready for a massive game of Bingo later.