alright! on to the last batch of photos from my weekend in japan (there! i said it again! hoho)
the mini statue of liberty at odaiba
we were walking randomly around, searching for a place to sit down and savour our cakes when we saw, in the distance, what seemed like a filming crew, and a group of people holding blue and white helium balloons.
out of curiosity, we went to take a closer look.
and it turned out that a wedding ceremony was being held! the bride and groom were standing under a bell, and after they had both said their stuff, the groom gave the cord of the bell a hard pull, the bell rang loudly once, and everyone released their balloons.
it was a beautiful sight. we were there at the perfect time, at the perfect place! 
we then went over to a bench to sit down and have our cakes.
sweet potato cake and a strawberry tart. yumyum.
after we finished our cakes, we went into this mall (aqua city?? anyway, it’s aqua-something) and i did some shopping. then we took the free shuttle bus to another mall, and did more shopping. heehee.
and i bought my first godiva chocolate! hurhur. i always thought it was too expensive, but since i was on a holiday, i thought what the heck and bought a truffle, and treated shoko to a strawberry-covered chocolate too.
after i did all my shopping, we took the shuttle bus back to the 1st mall, and passed by some trees with pink blossoms. i’d asked shoko and sachiko the day before if the cherry blossoms had bloomed yet and they both replied that it was still early — they usually bloom around the end of march. so when i saw the trees, i asked shoko if they were plum blossoms, since they bloom before the cherry blossoms, and she replied that they might be.
so after we alighted from the bus, we walked over to take a closer look, and she said hey! i think they are sakuras! and i was like omg really?!?! and she pointed to a sign on the tree and replied yep they are sakuras!
this just totally reminded me of the time when i was in kending and i asked the bf hopefully if he thinks there might be a rainbow (it was drizzling, and the sun was shining brightly), and he replied “why not? there might be” before saying very casually “hey – there’s one just behind you.” and i turned and saw the biggest rainbow i ever saw in my life.
after i took my fill of pictures of the sakuras, we went into the mall in search of dinner! we had a hard time deciding what to eat, before finally settling for sizzler’s. ya i know – go japan eat sizzler’s – wtf right. but somehow i felt that shoko wanted to eat sizzler’s cos she mentioned it a few times, so what the hell, i treated her to dinner there. after all, it’s not so much the food as the company that matters, no?
a beautiful sunset
the rainbow bridge in the distance
shoko was telling me that on friday it was raining, but the weather was great — no, PERFECT — on sat and sun (the 2 days that i was there). and on monday morning it was drizzling when i left the hostel.
it’s a pity i STILL didn’t get to try japan’s mr donut (i’ve tried the ones in taipei and seoul). 
everyone tells me that it’s everywhere – even shoko and sachiko said that it’s all over tokyo – but somehow we just couldn’t seem to find it! hurhur. nevermind – there will be a next time!
