Fridays are now fun day. I have enlisted 2 or 3 of my neighborhood friends to set aside Friday each week. This week there should have been 3 of us, but unfortunately one had a knee/shower/gravity incident and couldn't accompany us. She was with us in spirit. Terry, my new tomodachi (friend) and fellow musician, mother of McGill student, and adventurer and I set out to visit someplace new. She chose the Museum of Photography in Ebisu. Ebisu is still Tokyo, it's just one of the smaller "cities" within the massive Tokyo region.
We discovered some wonderful exhibits. Some fun, some sad (stories and "where are they now" photos from the bombing of Hiroshima, taken in 1970's), and some interactive very modern cool exhibits using light and Japanese text. We spent a couple of hours happily engrossed in the quiet, unpopulated museum space. When stomachs started growling, we left in search of something fabulous for lunch. At the Ebisu Garden Place where we were, we found a restaurant on the 39th floor! Our delight deepened when we were seated at a table for 2 by a window. It was uncharacteristically smoggy that day for winter, but the view was still pretty good, and the food great. We talked about families, jobs, life, and just enjoyed being out on an adventure.
There exists a parasitological museum here in Tokyo that I am curious about. It's claim to fame: "It's grisly centrepiece is an 8.8m-long tapeworm found ensconced in the body of a 40-year-old Yokohama man." (Tokyo city guide- Lonely Planet)
Ewwwww. Maybe that's a museum I could get the boys excited about!
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