Düsseldorf with Caro and Raya ☆

My weekend started quite ... strange and annoying, to be honest. Actually, we planned to have rehearsal today, but we couldn't realize that because both Raya and me were quite busy. As for me, I had to manage some things that dealt with my freelancer job as a news writer for an online game magazine. And to be honest, I wasn't amused about that. Especially when I heared that they wanted to change the team, without telling us ANYTHING about that. Everybody but one from our team will quit posting for that site. But there's a problem with that: they refuse to credit us for our postings when it was decided we'd leave =A=' What cheek....!! 

Because of that, I didn't have to write any important news anymore, even though I already started several papers which should be posted within the next week, which were "urgent", actually...... Of course, now I won't do it. I just won't hand them in -.-' But since I finished the discussion with my boss late at night, I didn't think I could re-invite the vocalist we wanted to test... because I can't assume him to be available again just after I said I'd be busy. 

Nevertheless, 

therefore I was able to enjoy some "freetime" ☆　So I went to Düsseldorf with Raya and Caro (●´ω｀●)

(I already look tired in this one, don't I ? x_X) 

We met at the station and went right to "Maruyasu Don", which is a Japanese restaurant. Actually I wanted to eat a Gyoza set menu, but unfortunately, they didn't have enough in stock. And because Caro also wanted to eat some, I declined and chose "Torikara set menu" <3   ("tori" means bird or chicken). It was totally delicious as well! .w.! 

(It was torikara, some salad, rice and miso soup <3)

After that, we decided to take some purikura. I didn't take any since visited Japan in March this year (・・;　

Caro and Raya look so cute! .w.  Unfortunately, I look kinda tired in all those pictures, and I failed looking into the camera, too.... xD Fail fail fail, I thought purikura can make everyone prettyyyy...? ;A; 

Before we left, we went to the asian stores in Düsseldorf to buy some random stuff |D As for me, I bought frozen Gyoza, because I still was kinda sad that I couldn't eat them at Don ^^  I already bought them once, so I know that they're delicious anyway. Buuut, I also bought some random stuff (●´ω｀●)

Haha, as you see, I bought some Hello Kitty Jelly-Drink. It's apple taste. I actually wanted to buy some drinks by Weider, but they didn't have any in stock, unfortunately... so I bought this one. ... I already drank it |D But it tasted great, though :'DD
And about the can... isn't it just great?? ;A; It's Piccolo from DRAGONBALL, and it contains orange soda ☆　I'm totally looking forward to try it! There are several other motives as well, but I just thought that Piccolo would be the coolest one to have (；´∀｀)　(Sorry for being such a fanboy xD).

At our way back home, we met some "almost drunk" girls who were actually kinda nice xD They said they'd love to add us on facebook, and because they were nice, we just thought we could give it a try anyway ^^; I mean, I don't see a huge risk in doing so. 

When we arrived at Cologne, we noticed that our train back home was already gone because our train has been late... so we decided to have a drink at Starbucks ☆

I had "Java Chip Chocolate Cream" (without lactose ^^) and Raya had some Strawberry Cream shake! By the way, Cologne Main Station already looks so... sparkly! They started to decorate the station with lit strings! It's so obvious that we're getting closer to Christmas!!　＼(^o^)／　 (I'm kinda looking forward to that... I didn't do so since a few years, to be honest! That's kinda instresting ^^;; ). 

Well, it's already half past 1 (a.m.), and my head starts to hurt... I think it's because I'm lacking of sleep (/_;) Anyway I reeeeally enjoyed my unexpected free-time ☆　Thank you, Raya and Caro, for spending it with me!　I hope we can repeat this　(^^♪　

Flashback: Shibuya 2012

Ouf, it’s hard to decide where to start this post… ^^ I really like Shibuya - especially because even Shibuya represents Tokyo in a very nice way, in my opinion at least... 

Most people only know the "crowded" places in Shibuya, thinking that it's just flashy and full. Anyway, even Shibuya has some very calm streets and roads. We found them because we used another exit at the station - so actually, it was like a "back entrance"... ^^  We went to Shibuya several times, but as I said, I'll kinda "sum it up" for you instead of trying to reconstruct the routine of those days one by one. 

Nevertheless, here we go!

Shibuya Station:

The very popular Hachiko-Statue in front of Shibuya's Train Station ☆

Almost everything is dedicated to Hachiko at Shibuya Station..! It's cute, isn't it? .o.? 

Matcha Cream Frappuchino. Hell, yes, I really think that they need to sell it in Europe as well !! (The yellow one is "Mango Cream Frappuchino", by the way! ♪～(´ε｀ )) 

As I told you, here are some pics of the "calmer parts of Shibuya" :) I really liked the atmosphere, to be honest. It's on the back-side of the Station and it took almost one hour to get to the front entrance by using the walkways. 

Disney Store Shibuya:

If you're heading off to "Tower Records" (where I bought my heidi.-CD in 2009, which was freshly released that time (b´∀｀)ﾈｯ!）, you'll pass a store which you REALLY should pay attention to. The Disney Store in Shibuya! You'll absoluetly notice it, because it looks so different between all those big skyscrapers. 

(Doesn't it look kinda surreal?)

So, as a Disney-Fan, I really recommend going inside. It's absolutely worth it ☆ Of course, you can buy almost everything dealing with DISNEY. Plushies, figures, several interior... and even costumes. If you're planning to visit Disneyland Tokyo or Disney Sea, I'd also recomment to buy your park tickets here! It will be much more comfortable if you can just pass the long waiting lines in front of the counter at the park itself (which we didn't do, unfortunately, because we visited the Disney Store AFTER we visited Disney Sea _ _! (Of course I'll show you some pics of Disney Sea later, too! ^^ )).

Anyway, besides all that stuff which is available to buy, I also think that the store's design is totally lovely and full of nostalgia.  I'm sure you'll recognize those sceneries without any hints, do you ;)

"Hotel Chelsea". I almost 'broke down' seeing this, since we were invited to play a concert there. We couldn't attend because our previous vocalist didn't want to play any concert in Japan... (-_-メ) I'm sorry for that, especially for those people who already said they'd come to see us performing there._.! But, of course, as soon as we get a new and constant vocalist, we'll try to re-take the chance (´；ω；｀)ｳｯ…　

Some advertisment at the station. I personally didn't watch "Ouran High School Host Club", but since several friends loved the Dorama, I took a photo of this ad |D It looks so... Japanese, haha! 

Doraemon and Dorami! We got it as a present in the "Happy Set" (= Happy Meal). We even were allowed to chose the figure (^^ゞ　And I really can understand the waitress who needed to laugh a lot while we ordered our meal. I'm not sure whether lots of grown-up people buy Happy Sets in Japan, so this might have been quite a strange situation for her... (b´∀｀)ﾈｯ!

And here are some random pics that I took on my way to the hair dresser ☆　I'm sorry that I forgot his name, but the salon's name was a french guy's name (even though the owner and his son, who were the only stylists there, were Japanese). 

I took some more photos of the Shibuya Square in 2009, but I think that there are enough photos of that on the internet already ^^;;  If you're interested in photos of the Shibuya Square, or especially how it looked like  in September 2009 (or even March 2012), please leave a comment :) If there's any interest, of course I'll hand it in later afterwards ☆