the girls vs. yokohama

japan's most famous china town...



making ourselves nearly sick at cosmo world...


cb scarin' the children...


we tried to board a karaoke, all you can eat and drink river cruise extravaganza to no avail...


you know you're getting old when you go to the club and it's not even open yet. what?! it was 11! naturally, we killed time with a photo shoot.


after hours and hours of food, drinks, karaoke and mischief. what do you mean the japanese boys are intimidated by our straight forward personalities and our outrageous behavior?


they've got these photobooths in japan where you don props, costumes and your craziest faces.



then you scoot around the side of the machine to a computer screen where you can customize your pics...digitally writing, stamping and drawing all over them before they pop out of the machine as a page of stickers. it's unbelievably fun...

for explanation purposes only...no idea who these people are...


we stumbled upon this huge hole that looked like a cross between an ancient lock for raising and lowering ships and the background from an m.c. escher drawing. the walls were lined with staircases that appeared and disappeared into nowhere.


what a perfect setting for, u guessed it, a photo shoot!!



we realize how ridiculous we are for gorging ourselves on 'american' food, but in lil' ole joetsu we rarely have the chance. yes, on a 4-day vacation, we 2x at t.g.i fridays, 2x at subway [yeah for cold cuts!] and at the american grill restaurant, whose california burger w/ bacon and avocado is a force to be reckoned with. as if i hadn't had enough...


a big thanks to masa, aka samurai slasher, for letting us crash at his place in machida that friday.
and thanks to lizzy for the couple of pics.