Hep5 is also cool because at the ground level there's a big open area where they have two giant sculptures of sperm whales (a mommy and baby) suspended from the ceiling, except they're bright red.
We wandered around a great many of the floors only to find that everything was very expensive and very much present Japanese fashion. Note: I probably couldn't fit into it and it'd look super dumb, I'll post examples later. Trust me, I tried some "large" shirts on and well, that ain't happening. Thankfully I have enough clothes with me, so I won't go naked anytime soon.
Back to our mission, we didn't find the flightsuit, we didn't find shoes, but we did find socks and a huge Disney store. Although we could've found more, but the mall closed at 9pm and we got there around 8-8:30 due to school getting out late and us getting lost. So we ventured up to the restaurant floors that didn't close until 11 and tried to find a place Erica could eat at (she's the vegan one). No problem though there were plenty of pasta places and we settled on a cute one near the front so we could people watch too. In the end the people watching was great but the food was really really bad. We could put our fingers on it, but there was this weird tang to everything. Not very yummy, plus the chicken in mine wasn't really chicken breast I think it was the various parts. Also not so yummy.
To make up for the bad food and little shopping I convinced Erica to journey to the 8th and 9th floors to play video games and do purikura (print club, those stick photo booths) and she agreed. Here's the thing, I ALWAYS want to do purikura I love it. In Japan every arcade has at least 4-6 of the machines with different borders, backgrounds, lighting, stamps, etc. and they're so much fun to do and the pictures always turn out great. We settled on one that had cool ghosts and stuff so I promise I'll scan them soon and post them. As we divided them up a nice lady worker came over and told us we'd have to leave since it was already 11 and the whole building was closing. We snatched up our stuff, headed out and got on the train. I said goodbye to Erica at Yodoyabashi since she wanted to head home and I was on my way to Tenoji to see Alex when he got off of work. It was right after we said goodbye that I realized that I didn't have my frog purse. In Japan I only use one wallet I put both credit cards, Kansai ID and my money (in this case a newly pulled out 20000yen, $200). I had a train card, but only with 500 yen so I didn't even know if I could get off the train without my wallet! I was glad that in this case I was going to Tenoji where Alex would be waiting right outside the gates in case I needed more money he could lean over the turnstyle thing (they're more like gates here) and lend me the money so I could get out of the train station. I didn't need it though, I had just enough. I kept texting Erica to see if she had my wallet by mistake, but she didn't, which meant I stupidly left it at purikura. Hep 5 doesn't open until 11 and I had a sushi thing at 11 so I couldn't go all the way there and back to Hirakata to make it for sushi.
I worried about my wallet the whole night and even during the sushi rolling party the next day. I tried calling and using my crappy Japanese skills to talk to the lost and found dept. of Hep5 at around 8am, but after a while I couldn't understand and had to give up. They knew I was missing a wallet and I described it, but I think they were trying to tell me that they couldn't look for it until the building opened. So after much stress Erica came with me back to the mall (yeah I had to drag her kicking and screaming) and the game room had my wallet! With all my money inside!!
I love Japan! Now it's Sunday and we're all heading to Nara to play with fuzzy deer!
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