Sunday left us with no call from Kollin till late in the evening, we were already eating near our house so not too many tales to tell about day 2 of his visit. He wandered around with friends from the Hotel/Guesthouse and explored a bit on his own. I took to trying to explain the genius and beauty of "In the Mood For Love" to a sleepy girlfriend after a 2 hours dinner. Monday because of work left me with little free time, so onwards to Tuesday.
Kollin woke me at 9:30 in the morning, I eventually met him back in Shibuya at 11 only about 20 minutes late. We had no set plan for the day, it was still drizzling so we started by walking through the slightly less busy than usual streets of Shibuya. After lunching once again at the sushi spot from the previous Saturday night, we made our way towards the Beverly Hills (or one of them) of Tokyo in Omote Sando to see the Prada building and the area in general which seems to have one of the highest concentration of high end stores and nice architecture. Onwards from there to a mid day hello to Keiko and then towards the winding backstreets behind Harajuku. Honestly, we probably didn't cover that much territory but rambled to and fro so much that we found ourselves walking for at least 7 hours yesterday. I actually had not been over to some of the spots we found and was shocked when I encountered a See's Candy Store which I don't think even exist in the States anymore. I bought four pieces and then tried to hide my aghast expression when it totaled over 10 bucks. So it goes. We found a great cafe we could rest our feet and wait out the last remnants of the rain over a couple great coffees watching the wide assortment of Tokyo's best dressed and strangely dressed pass by. We caught up further on life back home and how is business is doing, which is really well I'm happy to hear.
Later in the evening we met up with Keiko to go find some food eventually landing in AC Cafe near Harajuku after passing by a Condomania store (is this a world chain or it is just the most obvious choice in names?). Needless to say, after eating the tasty yet fusion-esque food and downing a couple of drinks, the two of us were exhausted and ready to call it a night. Today, if everything went well Kollin should be on a train to Kyoto and be returning on Saturday. As for me, I'll try to slow down the monetary leakage of the last few days and focus on work. Sunday is another day off to look forward to.
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