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April 2004 Timeline: May 2004 June 2004

Unwrapping alone
Edinburgh, 8 May 2004 		Rainy Season
Tokyo, 16 May 2004 		Jon!
Tokyo, 16 May 2004 		Alcatrazz E.R.
Shibuya, 16 May 2004
My birthday presents... Sent over from Germany....
It was rainy season again in Japan....
 Jon has been in Tokyo for a short-term assignment. We met up, wandered the city and then headed into Tokyo nightlife...
 Wonderful weirdness of Japan - You enter this place in Shibuya and then get handcuffed, they note down your blood type and everything has a Gothic Medical Prison feel...
Spooky
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		Walkway of the Dead
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		Our waiters
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		PRISON ESCAPE
Shibuya, 16 May 2004
More sights from Alcatrazz E.R. They are a chain and there are more such restaurants - some are called Alcatrazz A.D. and are Neanderthal themed. Another restaurant was called 'Funeral'. Yummy. All the while you can order cocktails called 'Euthanasia', 'Blood Transfusion', 'Artificial Tooth', 'Nurse Love Drug', 'Luxurious Pleasure'...
A corpse underneath the walkway....
 A cute nurse and a doc...
 Suddenly it got noisy, alarm went off, our lights went out while we were drinking beers, someone rushed in and shot us in the head and then whenever they entered Jon would scream 'No Way! Stay there!'. The waiters were as scared of Jon as Jon was of them... Then we were asked politely out to watch a weird sequence where one restaurant patron had CPR performed on her by a mad doctor, he declared her dead, then lifted up her legs - then a nurse came with a huge syringe who pushed the syringe into the guest's private region. The patient lived, everyone got up and applauded and bowed. But wait... there's more...
Guest Cages
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		A.E.R Toilet
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		Treat
Shibuya, 16 May 2004 		Looks like a local
Shibuya, 16 May 2004
...then suddenly we heard the waiters rushing around. Jon sees they have a list of names - he had given them his name - he starts shouting 'they got names! no way!' - deathly afraid that he would be given the ass-syringe treatment. We hear the waiters approach... They carry a birthday cake and sing 'Happy Birthday' and pass us by...
Freaky!
 Close-up Sushi.... Mmmmmhh.... Jon took me to this great restaurant in Shibuya, where we were out of ourselves trying Toro....
 Jon in Shibuya...
Roppongi Tower
Roppongi, 16 May 2004 		One good thing about our trip to Roppongi
Roppongi, 16 May 2004 		Past our Expiry Date
Roppongi, 16 May 2004 		One Day Back
Edinburgh, 22 May 2004
So we decided to be stupid and headed off to Roppongi... It was quiet....
I shot this photo...
 Just hanging on...
 I had two days back in Edinburgh to stretch my legs.... before heading on to NYC....
Summer's here!
Edinburgh, 22 May 2004 		Approaching Manhattan
Brooklyn, 23 May 2004 		Rainy Ride
Brooklyn, 23 May 2004 		Traffic Cop
Manhattan, 23 May 2004
Was about time!


And a taxi...
Contrast
Manhattan, 23 May 2004 		Rickshaw Driver
Manhattan, 23 May 2004 		Skyscrapers from Central Park
Manhattan, 24 May 2004 		Water Tower
Manhattan, 25 May 2004
Model, meet Shrek...
At Times Square
Looks nice in Black and White...
St.Patrick's Cathedral
Manhattan, 26 May 2004 		Separation of Church and State
Manhattan, 26 May 2004 		More flags
Manhattan, 26 May 2004
In the heart of the city...
This flag surprised me inside St.Patrick's....
 At Saks and a New Yorker in front of them....
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