The Central: Day 12 - We did the Shop part, when does the Drop happen?

 Today was a day full of shopping. 

We started off with brunch at Jonathan's (another Family Restaurant owned by the same group as Cafe Gusto and like... basically every other one). I had pancakes and an apple streudel-alike. This will come back to bite me later in the day, as everything was only carbs and I didn't have anything substantive and I definitely felt that by like 5pm. Angie had grilled eggplant, pasta and shrimp casserole, and a garlic shoyu butter roll. A much more sensible food option, for sure. 

Following that up, there was a lot of shopping. K-Books, Lashinbang, Mandarake, Animate. Wash, rinse, repeat for about 9 hours. Lots of stooping and squatting and stretching to reach things. Angie found some comics, we found a few cool figures, and some presents for some folks. 

They're still making pop-sockets in Korea, apparently?

Angie has been very interested in these little doll things.

New vampire and spotted.

They have a cute little bus/tank thing!

Sometime in the middle of that, we visited Caffe Veloce (a coffee chain in the area) and had a Matcha Float and a Melon Soda Float respectively. In both cases, there was ice in them and it kinda ruined the vibe of the drink. Tasty, otherwise. (Angie: The ice cream would not exactly melt, in fact in kinda refroze and got lost among the ice cubes. Sad face.)

For dinner, after all the shopping, it was nearly 9pm and we were very weary after walking so much. We tried to get into Kura Revolving Sushi, but there was a 90 minute wait and we would've had like 30 minutes to eat after waiting another hour and a half. No thanks. We decided to walk over to Katusya, a Katsudon restaurant a few blocks away. 

Angie got a traditional Katsudon bowl (with an egg sauce on top), I grabbed a Chicken Katsu with green onion and tartar sauce. Honestly, pretty decent. I was so tired that I couldn't even manage to eat all of it. (Angie: Don't worry, I finished it for him LOL! My katsudon was delicious!)

Back to the hotel to soak our toesies and feetsies, then off to bed. Shopping is rough sometimes. (Angie: I soaked my whole body and was able to use a bath bomb from the Pensta store that turned my bath Mountain Dew green and smelled non offensive, but I got a Suica Penguin charm inside! Hooray!)

Speaking of shopping, we're off to Nakano Broadway as our next trip. Good luck, us! (Yes, here's hoping we don't hobble back on worn down nubs that used to be our feet. Like toothpick feet LOL!)

(Also, Jeff took the only pictures yesterday. No contribution from me except for these asides.)