umeda sky building <3

ok first off - here's my phone ;D~ the emoticons are so cool! but sadly, they don't seem to show up when i email you guys *shakes fist* ~~ i can also watch tv on my phone for free

umeda sky building. i think we went up 42 floors or something. the view was great (as you'll see below). the weather was nice too making it even better <3...24>

doesn't this look PRETTY? omg --- i just LOVE how the desserts are presented here. this was at elephant cafe in umeda. we ordered quite a bit of food - salad, prawn crisps, nan bread, noodles, rice paper rolls and three desserts costing us 1600 yen each. i reckon that's a reasonable price to pay and i was actually full too!

my dessert up close and personal. sure it looked pretty and it was pretty big for 500 yen, but there was just WAY too much cream!! i haven't eaten that much cream before in my life T_T --- i hate cream too! in the end i just forked out all the chocolate sponge cake and ate that haha.

escalators going down from the sky building. i thought it looked pretty trippy so i took a photo of it haha.

these carp kite-like things are hanging up in celebration of "children's day" on may 5th, and yes this is a public holiday -- yay! more specifically, this is a festival for boys. girls have their own festival too which was in early march.

this place is pretty neat. the design is old school dating back into like the samurai periods i think. it's in the basement of the sky building and these shops are just all restaurants. and the thing that i'm standing next to is called a tengu^^

hehehe i couldn't resist. i love taking photos like these XD~

this was also a man made (?) mini garden outside of the sky building. it was so pretty! i'm a sucker for rocks and water hahaha.

i just thought i'd post this up cos look! a school with a roof top swimming pool!! talk about luxury T_T -- but i don't know how comfortable you'd feel about having people look at you from the sky building lol. i felt like a peeping tom! those microscope things that you usually see in towers were really creepy. i took a look at it and i had clear shots of offices and houses. i could see what everyone was doing lol --- CREEPY!

i've been trying to find myself an outdoor rooftop and this was the closest thing i could get to it. a lot of rooftops are off limits which SUCKS cos i really wanted to experience it (as seen in dramas and anime XD haha). anyways, the sky building has an area where you can go outside to look at the view and this was one of the views.

if you look really closely, you'll see a red train passing by. that's my train!! haha. the hankyu rail line.

another view from the sky building roof top. talk about DENSE!! buildings galore.

megumi and me <3

on the left is brad and on the right is kumi. kumi is megumi's friend who came along today and brad is kumi's friend haha. brad is from the states and has been in japan for FIVE years - yah - FIVE lol. he's teaching english here. anyways, they were really friendly. kumi was also in melbourne for 10 months and she said she missed eating chips back home - well kumi, so do i! haha. fat chips *drools*

anyways, i'm buggered so i'm going to sleep now. i have a headache as well. the internet service provider here can't get my credit card working, giving me extra stress! i had to use the payphone at family mart before T_T. there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my credit card so i don't know what the problem is!! sigh.... ok bed - oyasumi!