Tackshi wa takai desu.

So last night I learned the most important word in all of the Japanese language, and that word is Nomihodai. Translated to English it means all you can drink. Practically it means you can go to a restaurant drop thirty bucks and get nonstop pitchers of awesome exotic drinks or just common place beer and very delicious Japanese style beer food. This isn't just peanuts and pretzels its more like salmon sashimi and tonkatsu. Suffice it to say I got very drunk very fast on the best tasting alcohol I have ever had ranging from what tasted like grapefruit juice with a radioactive blue color to oolong and green tea mixture to smooth beer. After our two hours were up half of the people I went with went home and the other half which was still about 10-15 people found another bar around the corner. I enjoyed a gurasu beeru while listening to the bartender/DJ spin some of my favorite hip hop it was awesome to here J5, Arrested Development and the Fugees in a little bar in Tsudanama. Well after the gurasu beeru I was feeling a bit woozy and it was starting to get to that time the trains stop running so I departed my company and set off the train station down the block. I got there only to realize that I was at the nishi tsudanam station not the keisei tsudanama station. Now this probably means nothing to most people but to me it meant I had no idea of how to get back, fortunately I met a nice business man on his way home from work who helped me figure out a new route. I decided to take the JR to Inage where I know the bus line pretty well instead of navigating my way back to my normal stop katsudai. Well with this guys help I was able to get on the right train and after talking to him for a little bit I found out he has been an engineer for IBM for 35 years. I told him my name and he told me his but he followed it up with a small smirk adding, "small chance we probably meet again." I nodded and replied back that its a small world and even if we never meet again it was good to meet him then. Very bizarre interaction specially since I was so trashed I could only barely comprehend what was going on. Fortunately I got to my station okay unfortunately when I walked to my bus stop I realized I had missed the last bus. I could not walk home, not knowing the way at all, so I was stuck with one option. The taxi ride was very pleasant, the driver automatically had the door open when I walked up to it and he found my house very easily after I had given him the address. I had to drop a bit more then 2000 yen for the ride totaling the evenings expenses to around $50, but thinking about it it was completely worth it. Later today I am off to Shinjuku to see the buildings with my host family and run and errand, as unexciting as it sounds my heart is still beating out of my chest just thinking of all that I have still to do and see, and the many many more nights at the nomihodais and the other various spots I have yet to learn about. Next post I will talk about the sweetest thing I have ever owned, my new cell phone.