Samurai maid cafe!

Went to Akihabara with Ethan and Kevin today. Between shopping, we decided the time had come to visit one of Akihabara's famous maid cafe's. (basically a maid cafe is an overpriced cafe, often with a cover charge, where the waitresses are all dressed up as maids and treat the customers extra politely) We decided to go to the weirdest sounding one we knew of, so we walked to Mononopu, a cafe where the waitresses wear a costume that is a combination of maid and samurai.

It was actually a little disappointing since it was so expensive, but the service wasn't that much different from any other restaurant in Japan (i.e. always friendly and polite). We even had to pay extra to get a picture with our waitress. It was worth it for the experience, though.

Later on, Kevin and I tried to make it down to the bay to watch the big fireworks show tonight, but we ended up running late and missing the whole thing. (except for the last few which we saw through a reflection in a tall building) After spending the entire afternoon shopping I was exhausted, so I just came home, picked up some supermarket sushi (which was marked down since it was getting late), and chilled in my room watching the Daily Show.

Tomorrow we're planning on checking out Shibuya and Harajuku, two big shopping/fashion districts.