In actuality, I think what happened was I wasn't used to the humidity and the heat. Which is quite ironic considering I'm from Washington D.C. and everyone knows how horrible the hot and muggy summers are here. But I think anyone who was at the Forum on June 17th can vouch for the fact that despite the air-conditioning, the humidity of the Japanese night hung in the air in visible vapor. Although I must have chugged quite a lot of water during the concert, I probably was a bit dehydrated. My brain was a little preoccupied with the concert I suppose (*giggle*). I ended up sleeping the entire day, trying to rid myself of this bug. I'm thinking that I probably was incubating some sort of flu bug before I even left the States, and the one night I don't get enough rest - BOOM! I get sick. It sucks to be me sometimes! Tina and Michelle had asked me if I wanted to go to Japan Disneyland with them, but I waved them off, saying I had to recover from the first concert to make sure I could actually go to the second one.
Some of you are probably saying at this point, "are you crazy? You should have been yukking it up with the band." But you don't know what it's like to be me. Actually, I had a little "episode" of my own during the first concert, and while I can't really explain it myself, it scared me and was a warning bell that I needed to rest. So resting most of the day on Monday was a good thing.
I finally got up around 5 PM, and my dad said that it might be a good idea to do some sightseeing at night. This had two good repercussions - one, there'd be less people and two (more importantly), it wouldn't be oppressively hot. I'm photosensitive which means I am extremely sensitive to the sun, which often restricts what I can do in the daytime. So we decided to see Asakusa via the subway, our first venture to the subway system. One of the most famous pagodas in Japan is located there, unfortunately since we went at night, we figured we wouldn't get a good picture of it. There are quite a few interesting god statues in Asakusa, as well as a bell tower, and many places for worship. In any temple or shrine, there's a coin collecting box, that you're supposed to throw money into when you pray to this deity or that. So this was the beginning of that.
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