sick day… unless?
so, ya boy caught a cold or something. lost my voice completely. i felt the beginnings of it when we woke up in hamamatsu, but i don’t think the multiple nights out drinking and eating fried food really “boosted my recovery”.
the plan today was to meet our friend tsukasa at his house in kyoto, and then go visit nara, the city i went to last year with the deer.
unfortunately, i did not feel like moving. so the gang went and did that while i slept in the airbnb all day. i slept until like 3 pm. i originally planned to edit some photos and work on the blog for this, but i was just kinda dead.
honestly, i’m kind of surprised that this is the first time i’ve gotten sick on one of these trips.
me eat like caveman
around 5 pm, the gang got home from their day trip to nara. tsukasa’s mom sent me some cold medicine, and that stuff kicks ass. check out the sick drugs im on
i don’t generally tend to take medicine when i am sick, largely due to an idiotic and misguided belief that it will make any medicine i do take more effective. this is stupid. but anyway, this medicine works great.
once i got zooted on the japanese drugs, i started feeling much better. i went and bought a mask at the family mart next door to the airbnb and joined the gang on the quest for dinner. our goal today was to go to a pork steak place.
i don’t know what i expected, but this was the most caveman thing i’ve ever eaten. its just a gigantic 2kg (4.4 pound) chunk of pork meat.
the specific one we ordered is the largest one. they call it “mount olympus”. they even have a solo challenge where if a single person can eat this entire thing by themselves in 20 minutes, the meal is free and they will give you ¥10,000 ($62).
this is impossible i think. we as a group of 4 hungry people, 3 of which are americans, could not even finish the thing. i cannot even imagine a person who could do this. four pounds of meat in 20 minutes. i don’t think it is physically possible.
this meal was really good though. and i felt a connection to my caveman ancestors just tearing chunks off this big piece of meat.
i think this might be the first time i have used a fork in japan, also.
back home
thats basically all we did today, but i took some cool photos on the walk home.
when we got back, we cracked open one of the bottles of fancy sake we bought in nagano and shared it. we also got our japanese friend to try fireball whiskey for the first time. i did not partake, i hate fireball. plus i think it might be the actual worst possible thing to drink when your throat hurts.
