• We finally played pachinko. This was also the first time that Amy played! We lost all of the money we intended to play with after only a few minutes. It's only marginally more entertaining than slot machines in Vegas.
• Amy drove us around touring her island. The views were great.
• We ate at a local tourist trap called the mountain bandit restaurant. They had good chicken on a stick.
• Went shopping at a nearby city and bought all sorts of stuff from the Mr. Max (a big box store). We also inspected the pets they had available: from a wild chipmunk that appeared to be going crazy to $150 dung beetles that only live a few months.
• I found some Fugu, a local specialty, at the supermarket and ate it. I did not die.
• Very yummy sushi converyer belt for dinner on Saturday.
• Amy took us to her favorite Jamacan Rastaraunt that serves food from a truck and procides dining in a bamboo shack on top of a cliff.

• We saw peace park and the atomic bomb dome. We took many photos, including one taken by a Japanese tourist with all three of us. He asked us to smile for the photo, but smiling with the dome in the background somehow seemed inappropriate.
• We shopped more! I'm still unable to find any engrish tee shirts, but I found some other interesting ones.
• We ate another local specalty: okonomiyaki

• Rented a cell phone at the airport
• Dragged our bags through two train lines and a taxi ride. This was proof that we found a unique hotel: the cab driver had no idea it existed or where it was! Good thing Winnie printed out a map.
• Made it into Tokyo a bit too late to go gawk at the Harajuku girls. Oh well there's always the Saturday before we leave!
• Wandered around our neighborhood and found a half dozen 24 hour noodle places (great for those late night meals)
• Wandered our way to the nearby subway stations and successfully navigated back home from both of them.
• Took pictures of about 20 cool vending machines

This Morning:

• Woke up at 4:30 after ~5 hours of sleep
• Went to the Tsukiji fish market and had the best sushi I've ever had in my life for breakfast at Daiwa Sushi.
• Watched the organized morning rush hour of black business suits jogging down the street, buying drinks from vending machines, and cramming into subway trains.
• Checked out the Akihabara electronics district at 7:30am. Not surprisingly everything as closed!
• Purchased several drinks including 'Pocket Juicer Stand'

Ingredients

• One game of Risk
• One World of Warcraft board game

Setup

1. Open your Risk game
2. Remove the army tokens, the rule book, and the risk cards
3. Open your WoW board game
4. Throw away the little plastic monster pieces
5. Find the quest cards that correspond to the regions of the WoW game board
6. Sort through the quest cards and remove any cards with duplicate territories. Many of them have two territories on them. In this case use the right side.
7. All of the quest cards you have left do not cover every territory. You'll be about a dozen short. Use cards of approximately the same size and write the color / names of the territories. You should now have a deck of cards that correspond to every territory on the board.

Game play rules

• 3 cups self-rising flour (or make your own)
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 4.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1.5 teaspoons table salt
• 1/2 cup Splenda (or sugar)
• 12oz of your favorite beer
• 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter

Simple Wheat Beer Bread

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 4.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1.5 teaspoons table salt
• 1/2 cup Splenda (or sugar)
• 12oz of your favorite beer
• 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter

The instructions for both

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder, and sweetener in a large bowl
3. Add the beer and mix until you have a lumpy dough. Don't be afraid to use your (clean) hands as this is very difficult with a spoon.
4. Add the dough to a bread pan and bake for 45 minutes.
5. Melt the butter in a microwave oven and brush or pour over the top of the loaf
6. Bake for an additional 15 minutes
7. Enjoy alone or with cheese (also makes a great bacon sandwich)

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