Met with Club Leo to watch “We Bought a Zoo“. Yeah, it might not sound so exciting but was actually a very nice movie, and great if you have kids in ages 8-13.
Afterwards we got into a battle with Godzilla on our way to dinner.
In Ebisu we had dinner at Mai Thai… Yes, a Thai restaurant with decent prices and good food.
Met with Club Leo in Shunjuku to watch the movie Horrible Bosses. The movie was quite OK to watch, but very much like bubble gum. You like the taste while chewing but afterwards, once you spit the gum out, you cannot really remember the taste of it.
After the movie we went to a Japanese restaurant where we had sashimi, tempura and many other kinds of Japanese food. Yummy!
Met with Non and Ryo today as part of our monthly Club Leo meeting. This time we went to Shinjuku to watch the movie Freakonomics. The movie was quite boring and it was difficult to understand what they wanted to say with each of the different “stories”.
I am saying this as a listener of the Freakonomics audio book by the same authors. The book is so much better in many aspects. The “stories” are much better and so is the connection between cause and effect that they are explaining. It is fun listening. The movie… Well, both Chie and I fell asleep in the middle of it. Maybe that say it all 🙂
After the movie we all went to a Korean restaurant about 10 minutes walk from the Shinjuku station. The food was quite tasty and we had a fun time, as always.
When we arrived we were so hungry so we ordered a lot of food. Too hungry it turned out, because there was a big gap between what we thought we could eat when we were so hungry and what we actually could eat. In the end we were to full to finish with the traditional Korean noodle dish that we usually finish with 🙁
On our way back to Shinjuku station we were passed by many policemen. And we could se police busses with bared windows everywhere. It turned out that there was a anti-nuclear power demonstration. The police was there to keep everything in order.
We watched for a few minutes. Not much happened. We went home instead 🙂
Chie and I met with Club Leo (Non and Ryo) in Hibiya today. First we went to the The Kids are Alright movie. Quite interesting movie about a lesbian couple with two kids searching for their real father, and the consequences of finding him.
Afterwards we took the train to Omori and the Tani Kitchen. A Thai restaurant with some really decent food.
As usual was impossible to get any good pictures of Ryo and Non 😉
Chie and I went with Non-san and Ryo-san to a small movie theatre to watch an independent movie, Herb & Dorothy. The movie was about Herb & Dorothy Vogel, an ordinary couple in New York was it not for their passion to collect art. Since they met in 1960 they have on their small salaries collected more than 4000 art objects, and now given it away to the National Gallery of Art.
The movie was a documentary and so so. But it was interesting to see how passionate they were about art. Basically they had given up on anything else in life than art. Once they gave the whole collection away to National Gallery of Art they had to use 5 long trucks to get all the art out of their small apartment. No one of the people involved in moving the art out could believe how all that art fit into the apartment.
Afterwards we went to a Korean restaurant in Shibuya for dinner. And then to Fujiya, a 100 year old restaurant chain, for ice cream.