I love my friends! We went to the Tapas Molecular Bar at the Mandarine Oriental Hotel, the last week I was in Tokyo. We had such a great time!
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KAT
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KAORI
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TOMOKO
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MUTSUKO
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KAT (again)
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YOSSI
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Mutsuko and I hung out in Ginza before dinner. We went to this fabulous SAKE tasting bar beforehand. It was great! The bartender spoke perfect English. He spent many years in Hawaii.
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We got to the restaurant before the guys did. We had a bottle of champagne to commence the night's affairs.
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Everyone gave me going away presents. They made a picture book for me, to chronicle my time in Japan. It was so sweet!
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It made me cry.
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Of course. I got so emotional when I realized I was going back to the States and leaving all of my friends behind!
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We played darts in Roppongi after dinner.
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We had so much fun!
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I had a little too much to drink, though. But the cool thing about Japan, is that you can get drunk, but never have to drive.
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One of the many cool gifts my friends gave to me before I left. They know how much I love sumo wrestling!
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Dinner was a BLAST...
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Bacon and Eggs, but not really... actually, the bacon is cookies, and the yellow part of the "egg" is mango gelatin, while the white is coconut milk-pudding. When the bacon and eggs, came at the end of our 26-course meal, Mutsuko said: "wow! breakfast! bacon and eggs!" but we quickly realized this was not the case...
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Carrot Caviar.
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Tube Steak!
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