Gaming . . .

This weekend wasn't as eventful as last. However I still had fun. It all started with a bullshit room inspection. For some reason people don't know how to keep their rooms clean in the barracks here, so my supervisor (LPO) decided to make my entire division stand a room inspection at 8am Saturday. Reguardless if we failed the weekly inspection or not, which I didn't. Well immediately after I ate some MickyD's on base, yes it's just like the one in the USA. Off base McDonalds are another story, they sell sweet bread and shrimp sandwiches (I think they were shrimp.) A couple of my friends and myself decided we were gonna go to the arcade in the neighboring city of Ebina. So we all hop into my friend's car and drive over there. First thing I'll tell you is that Japanese arcades are EXPENSIVE! They do have some awesome games, one in particular was a gundam game. You paid ¥300* to get a pilot card with all your info (kinda like inital D except much more intricate, and plastic) then you paid ¥500 to get into this pilot seat. The screen was huge, the controls were realistic, you had team speak, and best of all you play all this online with other people around the country! Other than that I played an asston of Taiko drum master (or something of the sort.) After a good 15 games of that my forearms were steel, and that was ¥200 a game. The claw machines were expensive too, but they had cooler shit in them. For example an anime figure that would cost upward to $50 you could win for ¥200-500. I was particularly proud of myself that day too. The VERY first thing I did, was play Street Fighter IV. I beat that son of a bitch on ONE CREDIT. I felt on top of the world after that. Well after all the Street Fighter, drumming, and Gundam, we ate at Outback. It was pretty much the same price/food as the states. Other than that, the Bon Odori festival that was supposed to take place on Sunday was pretty much shot down. It was raining ALL DAMN DAY. I'm used to getting a couple hours of heavy rain, but all day was kinda excessive. So no luck on the meeting new people front. Although I did find one website where Japanese people are looking for English speaking people for practice and visa versa. It just so happened to be a dating site too, so I figured why the hell not lol. Well It's midnight here and I have PT in 6 hours I'll keep you guys up to date, C-ya

* Yen to dollar ammonts fluxuate everyday. It's typically around ¥100 ~ $1