Birthday Details

So when Jeff got home from his seminar he wasn't tired like I expected.  He was ready to get out there and show thirty what he was made of!

First we went out to eat at Malabar - an Indian curry place with amazing nan.  As you can see it was quite the spread!  That was for two people - and we finished (almost) all of it.  (For those who don't know, that is nan that Jeff is biting into.  We didn't expect it to be so huge so we ordered the small one to go with it.)


After dinner we walked around the Waseda area a bit.  We thought about going to a bar for a drink, but instead decided to try our vocal abilities at a karaoke place.  Karaoke is, as Jeff likes to tell me, a portmanteau - a combination of two words.  In this case, kara, which means empty, and oke, short for orchestra. It is nothing like karaoke in a bar that you might find in America.  The place where we went you sign in at the front desk and go to your own private booth/room.  You choose your songs from a little computer console and have at it.  We only stayed for half an hour, but you can choose to stay longer and even order drinks and food to your booth.  Maybe next time.

The best part was that I was able to go out and get Jeff a cake!!  I only had to say two words to the girl at the counter, and I even bought cute candles to go on top.  I don't know if Jeff was more surprised about the cake or the fact that I actually procured it on my own.  

In America it is still Jeff's birthday, but in Japan it's just Friday so we're going out to run errands.

Mata ne!
Melissa