BONG!!! Was the sound it made when the sign run up and hit me on the side of the head in Harajuku today. Chie and I went there to have a look at some Klättermusen jackets. We were walking peacefully on the street, and I was looking to my left on some strange buildings when… BONG!!! The sign run up and hit me on the right side of my head.
Better wear my helmet not only when I am on a bike, it seems 😉
First week riding my new bike to the office can be summarized in… Wind in my hair, smile on my face, and a sore butt 😉
First day riding my bike to the office. It was really nice to not have to get on crammed train 🙂
While Chie went to the mansion’s board meeting I took my new bike for a ride, singing the Queen’s song “I want to ride my bicycle…” all the way (or maybe not).
I took the same way I have been thinking about using to go to the office and I got there in about 25 minutes, without really breaking a sweat. At Shinagawa I went to the bicycle parking and applied for a membership, after they have carefully checked that the bike fit the dimensions and followed all the regulations.
This may seem strange for a non-Japanese but check out the video below and you may understand why. You really don’t want your bike to get stuck in the parking machine 😉
But the service people there had no objections to my bike so I got a membership. And my bike got an IC tag. And I tried the parking machine out, supervised by the service men. It all went great. My bike parked nice and easily. And when I swept my IC card it came back to me just like a good boy though, if you remember, it really is a Bad Boy 😀
At 5:15 pm we met Ryo and Non at Red Pepper. Today we did not watch a movie as we usually do. Just went for dinner together. We had a fun time and laughed a lot. And ate even more. But not so much that we could not have desert. I had cinnamon ice cream. I was YUMMY!