Week 13: Birthday and Beer!

This week it was my birthday!! I got an amazing card full of glitter from my family :) I also got ten billion Steam games from my brother (and a digital copy of the new Weird Al album!), so I am pretty sure that I am set for my video game needs until the next decade.

He looks just like someone else I know...

On Saturday I went with a bunch of my labmates to the Sapporo beer garden in Odori park! It was really fun. There was tons of food available (even edamame and some cut raw veggies for me!!), and of course there was neverending amounts of beer. I didn't get a great picture of it, but most people (including us) ordered beer towers / coolers that they placed directly on your table, so that you could refill your own glasses (of course you needed to pay upfront for the full thing, rather than paying per glass). I have never seen anything like it!

My friend's daughter had a pencil and paper, and she gave me some of her beautiful artwork!!

A buncha beetles!

We also played a game where one of us would draw the head of an animal, then fold over the paper, and the other person had to draw the bottom of the animal without looking at what the head was.

Croco-horse

Snail cat!! I think this is my favourite one.

Octo-horse. I think we got stuck on horses for a while.

She also drew a photo-realistic portrait of me.

It sort of looks like I have one of those chains linking from my ear to a nose ring, but I promise that I didn't get one of those. 

On Sunday I FINALLY hit up a second-hand store that I had heard about from a friend. I always love second hand stores, and I was curious to see whether I could find some hockey sticks (because my friend's daughter asked me to teach her how to play hockey. I have never been such a proud Canadian!!). 

Sadly, there were no hockey sticks, but this store was AMAZING. I had a really hard time controlling myself. If I had a car and a way to get things one day back to Canada, I would have bought 90% of the items they had for sale. As always I have a few mentions for the "things I wish I had bought" category, but I also bought myself something amazing.

Here are the things I did not buy:

Sassy shoes!

Hmmm... once again I am seriously regretting not buying this bewildering dress. 

And here is the best item of clothing I think I have ever owned. I am currently wearing this dress and I may never take it off.

MARVEL COMICS DRESS!!!!!

Less-excitingly, I bought a USB keyboard (most certainly NOT to facilitate playing Steam games!!). I am using it now for the first time to type up this entry, and it occurs to me that it is, of course, a Japanese keyboard! Since I don't have Japanese language support enabled on my computer, it looks like it's not possible for me to accidentally begin typing in Japanese (which is indeed something that happens on my work computer when I accidentally hit the "make everything Japanese" button, which is right beside ctrl). But I did immediately manage to accidentally switch my keyboard input to French. My keyboard is more multilingual than I am :S

Oh, and I finally remembered to take a picture of this great sticker on my bike! I only noticed it a few weeks ago.

Escort City: another myth has been born. I think they mean legend :p