Life on the 17th floor

This evening’s entry opens with two photos: “Tweety Birds”, and “Bicycle girl”

This evening *Twinkle* and I attended the grand house-warming party of my dear friend Stu and his lovely wife Mariko. Wow. What a place. What a location. 17 floors up on the banks of the Ara Kawa (it is the Ara Kawa isn’t it?). Incredible views, including Fuji san, the skyscrapers of Shinjuku and the mountains beyond, the fireworks of Disneyland, and Tokyo Tower. Just stunning.

*Twinkle* in the park

An attempt to not pose goes badly wrong.

And what a lovely crowd was there too. There were a few people we knew from the hanami in Shinjuku Gyouen a couple of months back, but a lot of new faces too. Great to get to know folks, although that woman who constantly took the mickey out of my gaijin-Japanese was sailing close to the wind at times, what with it being the 17th floor and all.

Don’t look down!

cheeky girl

The food was absolutely fantastic, really delicious – although with Stu being a chef what else would one expect? My 10-minute chocolate banana cake went down well too, I even had two people ask me for the recipe!

Stu san on his balcony

And my camera …oh, I just love it. I took photos today I would never have been able to take with my old Sony T30. That zoom lens is something else. I could clearly make out the volcano at Disneyland, Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, the DoCoMo biru in Shinjuku. And check out the sunsets too – these have not been photoshopped in the slightest.

Sunset over Ikebukuro