Hotel Gang Snowman
Hello peoples of the world.
Yes, it's been forever hasn't it! I must keep these posts shorter and sweeter to protect my bung rsi arms from overload, but I have a little resolution to make these posts more frequent, with lots of pics!
The wedding....ahhhh, the wedding...a magnificent event, something truly spandangelous, fantabulous! Ahh the romance of it all, and for some, the debauchery...Most of you were there, so I need not bang on and on about it...We are awaiting professional pics...Until then, you many want to feast on some prelims on this site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503158662@N01/sets/1516024/
What I do want to bang on and on about in this short post is Hotel Gang Snowman. Yes, even though we live in a huge house and yes, even though we are married, we still like to visit the odd RABERU HOTERU for a bit of a peek. This one advertised the fact it had a red cadillac on the roof that had been turned into a hot tub...Ohh yes, sir, me sir, I like hot tubs sir!
In keeping with our promise to explore as much of Japan as we can, we met on a Thursday afternoon, bundled up like babooshkas, and wandered the streets of our town. We entered Den-Den town, land of electronic goodness and many, many geeks (and curiously, the land of many shops selling pepper spray, machetes and air rifles???). It was there I spied a place called Rasberry Dream, a 'maid cafe'. We went in!
Essentially, maid cafes are like hostess bars for kids and geeks. The place was full of rampant geeks, finishing off a day's joystick shopping with a caramel parfait and a wistful glance at a chick dressed as a manga maid. Naturally, we too indulged in a spot of parfait, but instead of peering at the maids (who were not really that cute) we just listened to the conversations around us and wrote in the maid's cute little diaries.
The boys next to us were indulging in a spot of that much-loved geek past-time. Quoting movie scenes to each other. One guy was doing the whole movie, the sound effects, the music and all the characters, while the other snorted into his hands a lot. It was total gold.
In the maid diary, we found this pic of one regular. He had pasted in many different pics of himself, and in each one he had a weapon of some kind. In one he'd even written MIG in white out with an arrow pointing to the gun. This was my fav though, as he was obviously going all out and mixing all his obsessions into one.
When we left, we saw another place across the road that offered maid reflexology...we will definately be trying that one out!
We got hopelessly lost searching for the hotel, but about 10km and 20 freezing toes later, we stumbled upon it, after dark, in all it's polystyrene snow covered glory. HOTEL GANG SNOWMAN
Alas, the cadillac was taken, so instead we opted for the disco-disaster-UV-spasm-mega-dungeon room....Words fail, buildings crumble when I attempt to explain, so here are some pics instead:
There were two bathrooms - here's the one we didn't use!
This was our favourite room - Liberace would have felt right at home with the mix of prints, although there was no karaoke, which disappointed me.
Sorry about the pics, they are from my phone camera! So, what did we do in this crazy place? Played Playstation of course!
There is so much to write about, and catch up on, so I will try to do a short post most days.
Here are a few scans from our latest project: Our household has a Tuesday night 'Crafternight' in which we drink sparkling wine and make stuff - Hannah showed us how to make stencils and this week we are going to marinate our own artichokes!
By Ryan
Kimba
by Hannah
Finally - I am organising a cabaret at a sexy new nightclub. Here is the little blog I have made with the performer profiles - it's still undergoing construction, but it's very fun anyway.
http://www.caligulacabaret.blogspot.com
loving you all!
Yes, it's been forever hasn't it! I must keep these posts shorter and sweeter to protect my bung rsi arms from overload, but I have a little resolution to make these posts more frequent, with lots of pics!
The wedding....ahhhh, the wedding...a magnificent event, something truly spandangelous, fantabulous! Ahh the romance of it all, and for some, the debauchery...Most of you were there, so I need not bang on and on about it...We are awaiting professional pics...Until then, you many want to feast on some prelims on this site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503158662@N01/sets/1516024/
What I do want to bang on and on about in this short post is Hotel Gang Snowman. Yes, even though we live in a huge house and yes, even though we are married, we still like to visit the odd RABERU HOTERU for a bit of a peek. This one advertised the fact it had a red cadillac on the roof that had been turned into a hot tub...Ohh yes, sir, me sir, I like hot tubs sir!
In keeping with our promise to explore as much of Japan as we can, we met on a Thursday afternoon, bundled up like babooshkas, and wandered the streets of our town. We entered Den-Den town, land of electronic goodness and many, many geeks (and curiously, the land of many shops selling pepper spray, machetes and air rifles???). It was there I spied a place called Rasberry Dream, a 'maid cafe'. We went in!
Essentially, maid cafes are like hostess bars for kids and geeks. The place was full of rampant geeks, finishing off a day's joystick shopping with a caramel parfait and a wistful glance at a chick dressed as a manga maid. Naturally, we too indulged in a spot of parfait, but instead of peering at the maids (who were not really that cute) we just listened to the conversations around us and wrote in the maid's cute little diaries.
The boys next to us were indulging in a spot of that much-loved geek past-time. Quoting movie scenes to each other. One guy was doing the whole movie, the sound effects, the music and all the characters, while the other snorted into his hands a lot. It was total gold.
In the maid diary, we found this pic of one regular. He had pasted in many different pics of himself, and in each one he had a weapon of some kind. In one he'd even written MIG in white out with an arrow pointing to the gun. This was my fav though, as he was obviously going all out and mixing all his obsessions into one.
When we left, we saw another place across the road that offered maid reflexology...we will definately be trying that one out!
We got hopelessly lost searching for the hotel, but about 10km and 20 freezing toes later, we stumbled upon it, after dark, in all it's polystyrene snow covered glory. HOTEL GANG SNOWMAN
Alas, the cadillac was taken, so instead we opted for the disco-disaster-UV-spasm-mega-dungeon room....Words fail, buildings crumble when I attempt to explain, so here are some pics instead:
There were two bathrooms - here's the one we didn't use!
This was our favourite room - Liberace would have felt right at home with the mix of prints, although there was no karaoke, which disappointed me.
Sorry about the pics, they are from my phone camera! So, what did we do in this crazy place? Played Playstation of course!
There is so much to write about, and catch up on, so I will try to do a short post most days.
Here are a few scans from our latest project: Our household has a Tuesday night 'Crafternight' in which we drink sparkling wine and make stuff - Hannah showed us how to make stencils and this week we are going to marinate our own artichokes!
By Ryan
Kimba
by Hannah
Finally - I am organising a cabaret at a sexy new nightclub. Here is the little blog I have made with the performer profiles - it's still undergoing construction, but it's very fun anyway.
http://www.caligulacabaret.blogspot.com
loving you all!
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