Sunday in Chiba

If I wake up at 7:30 AM on a Sunday, you know it must be for a good reason. And oh, it was for a VERY good reason yesterday…..for I went to COSTCO. Oh, how I miss me some Costco. Mami drove me, Cindy, Ann and Emily to Costco, which is in Chiba, about an hour and a half away. I was looking forward to this for weeks and it did not disappoint!

How do I love Costco? Let me count the ways! First of all, they had samples of GOOD shit that you don’t ever see in Japan, let alone get free samples of. I got a free piece of fatty steak (SO GOOD), caramel apple pie, Krispy Kreme-ish donuts, cheese, kimchee, etc etc etc. Mmmm, orgasm. I usually ignore the pre-made “enchiladas” from the deli in the States, but here I am so starved for Mexican food that I practically attacked people to get to them. They also had the rotisserie chickens! Cindy and I opted to split a thing of rotisserie legs (they were different but still good). Hmm, what else did I get? I think I have buyer’s amnesia, as I did spent cough$200coughcough. I got tortillas, tequila, 16 cans of refried beans, bagels, good coffee…..I don’t even know what else. I mean, that sentence right there is making me excited enough, does it really matter what else I got? Might I add that they had a fifth of Absolut vodka for 1000 yen ($10)???? HOW does that happen? I didn’t get it, sadly, as I have no need for vodka, but I was tempted.

Not that I don’t have enough carbs here, but I missed bagels enough that the other day I had a dream that me, Ann and Cindy were eating them (and were very happy, might I add). How sad is that? I guess this is proof that dreams come true! Hehehehe.

I don’t even need to comment on how excited I am for Mexican food makings. Sigh.

After shopping we of course had to get polish dogs. And churros. And soft cream. And we ate it outside in a weird dead grass area that felt like a Costco park since there were kids running around (killing dragonflies?). Um, yeah.

Sigh. I love Costco. I want to go back. It is like Disneyland!

Speaking of Disneyland, it is also in Chiba. Chiba is a shithole, but is cool only because they stick all of the “Tokyo” stuff there that they can’t fit in proper Tokyo, like Costco, Disneyland, IKEA (not open yet, but I saw the building!), etc. Anyway, after Costco, we went to Ikspiria (what the hell is that word supposed to mean?), which is part of the Disney Resort. It is a huge, NICE shopping area connected to the Disney Ambassador Hotel. It’s like Downtown Disney but cooler. It is really nice-looking, and might I add that it has Diesel, J. Crew, Gap, Comme Ca Ism, etc etc etc. It was muy fun! I want to live there! I was good and only got a big-ass mug for my tea addiction. Was VERY tempted to get more, but ganbaru-ed.

Got home at 10 and had a late dinner before crashing. Fun and busy weekend, indeed!

It’s currently Monday afternoon and this is the third eerily good Monday in a row. Aren’t Mondays supposed to be horrible? I woke up feeling not TOO tired, all of my classes went EXTREMELY well, and…yeah. Weird! But muy good. Hopefully tomorrow is unlike the last two Tuesdays and doesn’t suck. Given that I will be home a total of 30 minutes today, it has the possibility of doing so, hehe. Oh, well, fun Monday, yay!

Random pictures of the weekend to come later….