Wowza

Whatta weekend! Here's the breakdown:

Friday night: Through the wonderful Glitter community of which Pinn is a regular member, we met up with another Glitter member, Jenny Hart (of Sublime Stitching fame) and her buddy, Stephanie!! This was their first trip to Japan and they were keen to experience Japanese karaoke - we were more than willing to oblige.

Also want to add a congrats to Jenny on being one of the winners of Fred Flare's Next Big Thing contest AND also to Pinn on her second published design - Blosson on Knitty!!!

Here's a cute pic of Pinn and her husband, Seimi before the karaoke madness began:

Um, here we all are in the karaoke room (except daz who is taking the photo) before they delivered the pitchers of beer. We are all still looking respectable at this point.

Darin rocking the mic:

And by this next photo, the beer had clearly worked its magic:

It was a great night (which I paid for heavily the next day!!). See you ladies in Austin in a few months!!

And on to Saturday we go. It rained all day Saturday. Our friends from Tiny Cafe had put a lot of hard work into organizing an outdoor music festival to be held in Akiruno - out near Ome in Tokyo.

Here's a manhole cover in Akiruno - it's for you Martine!!

While nursing karaoke hangovers we head out to the Nutrian festival (named after the animal known as the nutria). The only time it didn't rain was during our 20 minute walk from the station to the festival - lucky us. The green of Akiruno immediately eased my hangover pain.

Hard to believe that this is officially still Tokyo!!

My favourite thing about the festival were these smiley fried potato things - they really made me want to smile!

See they really work!

This is a crap photo of a fun Japanese girl band that traditional style music

The party went on well into the night in the mud and rain. Thanks hisari and oi for all of your hard work!

And finally we come to Sunday! The perfect way to spend a Sunday is at a rooftop bbq in Kichijoji. The weather was pretty miserable Sunday morning but the sun came out in the afternoon to cheer all of us up.

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Comments

[Rae]

the potato smiley things can be found at national azabu...

[Carrie]

That sounds so fun! I reallyreally want to experience Japanese karaoke one day. And Jenny Hart! How cool is that!

I love that picture of Darin with the smiley face.

[gleek]

fun fun fun! sounds like a killer weekend in tokyo :)

[empress]

It looks like you had fun as always :) I'm glad to hear that you received your necklace. I know what you mean about not being thrilled. At least she came to her senses!

[pinn]

Hey Kat, glad you had a good weekend after all. I was at home nursing the worst hang over I've had in months. My stomache still hates me for it.

Love the potatoe smilies too.

[martine]

hey thanks for the manhole!