Halloween Party

SS, Rai (3 years old) and I had a great time at a very eclectic Halloween Party last night. It was on the other side of Tokyo, so took a good hour and a half to get there, but was worth it.

We got there at about 7pm and were introduced to the hosts. They live in a nice, two-bedroom apartment which they rent for just over 140,000 yen per month (I can be so specific because I specifically asked - yes, the obsession with money continues! I mainly wanted to know, because where we live, the rent is paid for by my university, so I have little idea of how much apartments cost - now I know a little more).

The guy is Canadian and is a stay-at-home-dad. The woman is Japanese and worked at Lehrman's - recently she was forced to change jobs. They had a lovely 4 year old daughter who played beautifully with Rai.



As usual when you arrive at someone's apartment (or is it just me?), I took a look around at the bookshelves and general decor. On the bookshelf, I was interested to see the Holy Bible (good to note so that I avoid saying anything stupidly offensive), Japanese learning books, two full sets of Multiple Streams of Internet Income books (or cassette books?), a six-set of pornographic DVDs, quite a few Japanese porn magazines (these could have been fairly normal magazines - it seems that a lot of Japanese magazines aimed at men have overly "ripe" ladies on the front cover - quite distracting when shopping in convenience stores) and books of spirituality and tarot.

It was difficult to come to any firm conclusions after that eclectic mix, except that these people were majorly flaky. However, by the end of the evening (after having had my tarot read; no it did not turn into a swinging sex party, fortunately) I worked out they were pretty normal, down-to-earth people and we had a great time. Left at about 9:30pm and were home around 11:15pm.