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The overall weather forecast wasn’t looking too good, but for our first full day in Tokyo we got really lucky with perfect weather. Here’s the highlights from today:

• We went to Harajuku to check out the freakshow that people dress up for on Sundays, but there wasn’t a lot going on so we got right into shopping. Things are generally really expensive, stuff like jeans are almost double the price and not offered in fat American sizes anyway. We hit all the standard stores and then some.
• While we struck out on seeing many of the people dressed up, we found the old guy above dressed as a woman with live goldfish in his earrings. He couldn’t get enough pictures taken of himself, he loved it.
• Kickass tempura lunch
• Evert and Jenna hooked us up with Dave and Tiffany (or Thommo and Tiffo from adidas, the Australian married to the girl from Wisconsin living in Japan.) We went to Gonpachi, the restaurant from Kill Bill. It was a great time hanging out with them, especially since we had never met them before this trip except for a few quick emails back and forth. Every time new customers walked in, all the chefs would yell to them.