Today was a really dorky day, but it was a lot of fun! We started out at Denny's, a restaurant that is very upscale here and has a very Japanese-y menu. We were lucky that they had some American breakfast foods, because we didn't feel like fish again. We needed a taste of home. Luckily some french toast and eggs and toast did the trick! Our plan was to start out at the Miraikan Musuem of Science, which is located on an island in the Tokyo bay. My interest was in a special exhibit they had going on called "The Science of Manga". It turned out to be a really cute and fun exhibit where classic comics such as Doraemon, Astro Boy, and others I didn't really know came to life with hands-on demonstrations. New and upcoming technology and interactive media were used, although the voice recognition ones didn't seem to like my weak, American-accented Japanese.

The other two floors of the musuem were also really fun with lots of demonstrations and thigns to play with and learn. It was a lot like COSI, but was obviously updated often because recent discoveries and science was included in the museum. They even already had a thing about Yamanaka who just won the Nobel Prize about stem cell research!

Two of the main demos were the Asimo robot demo and the Internet Explained Physically. Asimo was a really creepy robot about 4 feet tall and talked to the audience as he walked, danced and kicked a ball. I took video to upload later. It really was a creepy demo for me, I hate robots! The internet demo was just Jeff and I but the presenter lady was really nice and spoke English well. She had us write a message to each other using internet code (on and off = black and white balls). Jeff wrote "love" and I wrote "you 2", but of course a ball got stuck on mine and he only got "yu2".

Seriously, it was a wonderful musuem and I wish we had something as cool and educational as that in America.

We ate and shopped at the local mall in Odaiba called Aqua City. I had some strange tasting ice cream that I thought was caramel and vanilla but had a mochi-like consistancy. We then embarked to Ikebukuro, I was on a mission to find the large Animate store and K-Books. After quite a bit of looking and help from a local 7Eleven clerk we found it! So many floors of anime. Even more than in Akihabara! K-Books was a bit disappointing though, not a lot of books. We are intrigued by two anime we keep seeing over and over here: Tiger & Bunny, and Uta no Prince-sama. And of course One Piece, jeez, so much One Piece!

A lot of walking and discovering but we both had a lot of fun today! Welp, time to do laundry and plan for tomorrow. How about you Jeph? Any words?

Today, I explained The Internet to the Science Communicators (their actual job title) working at the interactive Internet exhibit at the Tokyo Museum for Emerging Sciences. Angie sent me a message that told me she explodes upon death, destroying any opposing card with no attachments and a power less than or equal to 2. Then, I got weird looks in the Doujinshi aisle. Also, there were some Pigeon Buttons.