Yep. ..that was hard. Not quite feeling 100% this morning. I woke around 730 and was able to get back to sleep. By 10.00 i was hungry so had a shower and made my way to segafredo. It was really warm -a combination of the weather, being hung over, and probably getting some sun yesterday. So i didn’t stay too long.

I skyped Kaoru when i got back, and then laid down for a bit – being vertical was too hard! I popped in to see Mikiko and then packed for the days outing. I caught the train to Shibuya and then had to change to go to Yoga. Kenichi phoned me soon after and i hopped in his car with Minami.

It was about a 20 minute drive to his friends house.  As expected, they treated me well.  I was given the seat at the head of table, and the lady of the house kept putting food on my plate.  The difference between it, and Mio’s bar, was just that I didn’t have 3 full glasses of different drinks in front of me.  But in reality I was still hungover so that was probably a good thing!  Some really lovely people though.  They had a 4 and a 7 year old, and the other friends who were there also had a 4 and a 7 year old.  The kids had all been learning English so they were made to introduce themselves to me, which is always fun.

Several beers later (so my hangover had turned in to drunkenness again :)) the other friends had left, and it was time for Kenichi and I to leave as he had to take Minami to a dance class.  So he dropped me off at a train station, and we exchanged gifts that our wives had given us to pass on to each other (big responsibility for us guys!).  I caught the next train to Shibuya, and went to Bic Camera (this time with my passport!) and picked my duty free alcohol to bring back to Australia (plus a 6-pack of the large Suntory Premium cans to keep me going for the rest of the week).  I picked a bottle that I thought Kaoru might like, plus a couple of whiskies (a given!).  Then I felt an obligation to go back to the craft brewery I had been at yesterday as I had received feedback from both Damon and Michael, about what beers to try.  So the fight between being tired, drunk and hungry was on.  Hungry won, and I found a chinese restaurant to eat dinner at, where I was able to order a set (predefined selection) of rolls, being a steamed but, plus 3 of those small ones I can never remember the name of but taste awesome, plus some salad and dessert, plus a beer of course.

I left the restaurant and had a bit of a walk around Shibuya.  But my backpack was heavy and walking was hard.  So whilst the alleys looked like they would be fun to stop in for a drink, I swallowed my pride and headed back to Shinagawa.  Back at the hotel I had a bath (because that’s what you do in Japan) and called it a (very enjoyable) day.