Blue Skies . M&D day 2

After a quick brekkie at Pronto coffee, we headed back on the Yamanonte and Toden Arakawa lines to reach Otsuka. We arrived at my dorm to show them around properly and unload some of the bits and bobs brought from Australia. I opened my collection of Christmas present and was a happy little vegemite. My little cousins G and J drew adorable pictures for me, pleading “please come back”. Next we headed to Sakuramiya as my old man was very keen to check out the coffee brew. T-san and K-san greated us all with great delight and we exchanged formalities before each ordering a coffee and cake set. Mum oohed and ahhed over the ambiance whilst playing with the array kaleidoscopes and Dad sat humbly fascinated with K-san's skills behind the coffee machine. Surprisingly, T-san presented mum with a kaliescope she made just for her, Mum was obviously as overwhelmed by the present as dad was with the taste of the coffee. T-san called the owner K-san and twenty minutes later K-san and M (bearing his Australia beanie) greeted us and sat down. For the next hour or so Dad and I drank another coffee while mum chatted with k-san and T-san. We eventually left  after a touching goodbye and Mum and Dad were positively overwhelmed by the generosity and friendliness of everyone they just met. It was a wonderful and fitting way for Mum and Dad to interact with local Japanese for the first time. After travelling on the Toden Arakawa, Yamanote and Toei Oedo lines we reached our destination of a completely different scale to Sakuramiya; the top of Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills. It was a chilly, however crystal clear day and you could see the seemingly endless concrete landscape disappear as far as the eye could reach. Tokyo bay and the distant mountains where in full view. We then whizzed through the Metoblism exhibition as I explained the key ideas and pointed out the key exhibits. Mum and Dad where surprisingly engaged and impressed by the concepts and the exhibition overall. It is a wonderful exhibition however you need two proper visits to get through the information and battle the "museum fatigue". It was approaching half past four and we began our journey towards the Invoice theatre to see the early evening show of Blue Man Group. Pumped! These guys are supremely entertaining and hard to place. Using their trademark PVC pipe apparatus' they pumped out a handful of musical numbers. The show was half a comedic mime always involving stunned but willing audience members and half musical performance. It was a profoundly entertaining, engaging, humorous and skillful show that clearly portrayed these blue men as true showmen. I would definitely not baulk at the chance to see them again.