Japanese cab drivers... ughhh

One of the most annoying things about living here is no car. Sometimes its fine I like walking and the trains are fun. But, sometimes you just want to hop in the car and drive home. Well cab drivers make it worse. They drive us bananas. So many times they act like they don't know what we are saying or that we will notice them taking us the long way to make us pay more. Well today we were out an about doing some shopping, the weather is terrible the last week or so rains and thunderstorms everyday. The sun was actually out so we took advantage. While we were out some clouds rolled in and we did a lot of walking in the rain with our umbrella. Well we stopped off for dinner and decided to grab a cab home. He knew exactly where we wanted to go so we were happy about that. We are coming up to our apartment and Steve says in Japanese "right here on the left" the cabby said "hi" (yes).. then sped up (the meter said 710).. so we were confused got up a little further to the Urban Tower (Steve said again right here is ok). He sped up around the corner. So then we both leaned in and was like what are you doing and Steve said please right here. He went up a little further the meter changed to 800 and he stopped. What kind of crap is that. The most blatant attempt to charge us more. Sure its only like 90 cents but its the fact that every cab driver does it to us. Just annoyed thought Id vent! :) We're off to bowling tonight with friends who will be leaving this week :(

Balcony Bug!! :)

So this week has been pretty uneventful until today!! :) I was just getting ready to head to the gym when my friend Jen called me. There are hundreds of these bugs called cicada everywhere. They are mostly up in trees you can't see them but you can hear them, they make this loud screaming noise. Anyways my friend Jen called, she wanted to lay out on her balcony but one of these bugs was camped out. It was flipped over so she thought it was dead. Turns out it wasn't because when she went to grab it, it started to scream at her. So she called for help. I have no idea why I had the guts but I went up there. I was on my way to the gym so it was no biggie just to run up there and see if I could do anything. Anyways I got it trapped in a Tupperware container too afraid to throw it over in case it retaliated so ended up throwing it away. But the video is pretty funny. Jen was freaking out so much she really wasn't taping it but its still funny to listen to how ridiculous we were being. Also you can even here it screaming when I started to trap it. Its hard because we were both freaking out on whether it was actually in there.