This past Firefly Sunday, we decided to try something different. There are one or two Mexican places around and we seem to have exhausted all our usual options. We ended up at Hermanos, which is the cheaper and more laid back of the two restaurants…or so I’d been told. It was quiet when we got there, since dinner rush hour in Japan is closer to 7 or 8. We were seated upstairs away from the bar, and it was pretty much just us. The waitress ended up putting on some Mexican music, and it never ceases to amuse me when we get “ethnic” food in Japan ‘cuz they always end up turning it Japanese. To be honest, the fajitas I had weren’t bad. Aside from the green beans it was pretty much like anything else I woulda gotten back home. Of course, it would have been a lot cheaper, but considering Mexicans weren’t making it and such, I was able to deal. I’m not crazy, right? Usually fajitas don’t come with green beans.
Usually spicy food and I don’t get along very well, but this wasn’t too bad.
There was some drama at dinner, but things cleared up by the end of the night.
Mike really wanted to go see the local improv group the Pirates of the Dotombori so I tagged along. We’d been meaning to see them anyway. Their venue for this show was at Club Pure, a place renown for it university-style hook-ups. I wasn’t quite looking forward to going to a club, but it was a comedy show so we figured it would be okay this time around.
It was a pretty decent show. I freely admit I wasn’t too keen on paying nearly $15 for a drink and the show, but it was good to branch out. When we got the cast list, I couldn’t help but notice the name “Caitlin Barlow”. It struck me as incredibly familiar. I shook it off, thinking it was impossible.
It turns out I wasn’t crazy. The Pirate Caitlin is someone I know, well, not very well, but I’d seen her in shows at ISU. She and Mike’s friend…whose name eludes me…Dan? I don’t know. Anyway, point is, she works at a Nova branch with Mike’s old roommate. So she came by us after the show and I knew I had to ask. We were both pretty amused and amazed that we should run into each other, in Japan of all places. I remember seeing her in the ISU production of Pride’s Crossing, and it turns out she had been on Improv Mafia as well.
Small world.
It certainly is a small world.
I’ve had fajitas with green peppers, but never with green beans……sounds interesting though…..