Family day out 

Sporting his new Patricks, Husband was in the mood for more spending so we headed off to the Proteca store. Yes, I didn’t know what it was either. But, according to the expert, they make the best suitcases. My camera did weird things but here he is crossing Shibuya on his way to buy a suitcase…

30 minutes later we were standing outside the Proteca store waiting for it to open…there appeared to be someone in the queue already so we loitered behind him for a bit until the time was 11.03 and Husband strolled past him and entered the hallowed ground. Within minutes, the suitcase had been purchased and the upswell of a fancy-pants cover was successful owing to a mishearing. 

Time to meet up with the cousins and chill out drinking coffee, getting haircuts, and wandering around Harajuku. 

The big Zen question of where we can all eat raised its head and I thought I had found a great place that did beef and yam katsu curry. The queue was long and sweaty and some of us got grumpy. I think the wait time was less than in Sapporo for the Mongolian lamb. And it was definitely worth it. Again, another tiny place with about 8 covers sitting in a line along a bar. But my non-existent Japanese let me down again and Bell was only able to eat rice and cabbage – seems like the yam thing was a squidgy mass of white pulp and not very appetising. However, the beef katsu was very tasty – we had to cook it a little ourselves on individual hot plates. 

As you can see, Husband was very impressed 😂

Back to the hotel and a shower, and Bell suggested we went for beers at a club she had been to last year when she was here. What a great place – again very small and we were the last punters allowed in. In all about 10 of us in the bar, which was stuffed floor to ceiling with albums. Very cool music and three beers later I was very chilled. 

Another great day!