Japan 2013 (Day 7 - 18th July)

 Hello again,

On the 7th day, again, I stayed home all morning so my husband could work on his thesis.  So I woke up and had breakfast (something a bit more continental this time) and spent some time with the familly members that were not as busy: Mari and my inlaws (and occasionally their huge lovable cat, Mi)

I apparently only had a toast with butter and a glass of 100% orange juice. 

So I cleaned up the room as usual and vaccum cleaned some more. That's what our room looks like when everything is more or less tidy.

Mari kept busy by emptying a box of paper tissues. We made a video of it she looks adorable untill the end when she starts eating the tissues. Bad Mari.

If you do not know, curry is even better the next day! So we had the leftover curry. :D

We left with Mari for the station, since it was still day time she took a little hat to protect her from the sun. 

We arrived at Namba and my husband left us and said he'd be back soon, he had to go do something at his japanese bank. So we waited here and I took these photos. 

Look! It's that building i took photos of in one of my trips to japan. heh Still waiting... 

and waited some more. I got a little bit fed up but there was nothing that can be done but wait. haha

 Unfortunately Mari had started getting annoyed too so i had to constantly pick her up and play with her etc etc and in the end i got rather tired.

When my husband arrived i just said "I'm not upset but please take her for a while!" hahaha  

We had scheduled to go somewhere at 7.15h but it was about 6.30 so we took a walk in the Namba underground mall. 

I got some gifts for my friends... bough some magazines for myself and looked around.

I found this charming tea house... it looks like something out of a book, or from another country. It's def. not japanese looking and we do not have this sort of thing in Portugal so...

This statue was a sort of ball labyrinth. I filmed the circuit but i'm not gonna waist bandwith posting that here. It was pretty cool though and everytime a ball fell it made a sound and it was, with that system, playing music!

We decided instead of having a late dinner we should just eat then so we looked for restaurants. My huband wanted to have ramen (again) but there was an udon one right next to it and he went with it to please me.
In the end it ended up being a good call because Mari had some too.

I love how they always bring table wear and seats for kids without us even asking. This is what i call service! For Mari to eat udon i cut it realy small and she apparently now is a fan. 

This is mine, i picked a summer special udon and it also came with inarizushi (稲荷寿司) which is a ball of rice covered by fried tofu. It's good.

We got double the average amount of udon that day because apparently they had won an award and if you said a catch phrase congratulating them for it they would bring you an extra serving for free, how odd is that?

There were so many cute items in this store, i thought my friends vania, susaninha and fla would like it especially. I did too and my husband wanted me to get that cat bag but i think i should just save my money for lolita stores for now and then go back in the end to regular stores.

It was time and so we went outside to the designated place. I spotted my sister in law before my husband did haha! There she was smiley and lovely as usual and i finally got to understand that the person who she married was a musician we had met before at one of her live acts. My husband did not know either, it was kind of funny!

They are, of course, the perfect match!

 So why did we meet there? Well apparently people (even if against the law? - only saying this because at some point a policeman came over and told them to "knock it off!") go there and perform their songs for different reasons, to be known, the spread some message, to enjoy themselves. So does Yoko and her friends.

All the people performing that night, all are her friends.

So we spent the rest of the evening watching and listening to them and their messages which were very different from one another. Mari liked it, slept a bit and met some strange people.

One of these people asked my husband if i was russian (what?) and after being told I was portuguese and that was our daugher he said "oh so your baby is an half baby (which means half japanese, half something else) and then followed with an "Yokatta ne!?" which is ridiculous and very funny. What? :P

I really liked the sky that night, cities look so different in different light and atmospheres don't they?

After some hours Mari started to get hungry and it was getting late so we finally said goodbye and left.

We made the mistake of trying to get to the JR station in Namba from the outside and obviously got a bit lost and ended up having to go back to where we started haha but saw some things some people who read this might like: 

 Game Taito Station and Sega arcade as well. I know my brother would like to go in one of these, i never did even though i've seen a few. Bad bad non gamer jo. :P

When we got to the station there were a couple of aquariums and those made Mari a bit more cheerful, enough to get her to be quiet for most of the ride home. 

Since we had an early dinner my mother in law made us some last minute onigiri which we appreciated dearly!

This is what I bought that day (totally over-spent on magazines and mooks):

• Last gothic and lolita bible
• Last kera
• Jane Marple 2013 Summer collection mook

The bag that came as a gift with the Jane Marple mook, not my usual style but i'm going to wear it soon i'm sure!

 And that was my day! I hope you liked reading about it. And as promised here's the second buy from the shopping trip in Shinsaibashi:

Angelic Pretty Eternal Rose Bouquet jsk + socks set (ivory) 

It was love at first sight! Not 100% my style but who cares I am in love. <3
Socks / Dress

Kisses,

Jo