Pip Turns Heads in Akihabara

We took the train up to Tokyo after mass yesterday. The Ancient Mariner will be deploying again soon and won't return to Yokosuka until after Pip goes back to college so we lured Pip out of his cave by chanting "Akihabara! Akihabara!" at the top of our parental lungs.

Akihabara is Tokyo's electronic district, as most of you know by now. The prospect of Akihabara is what spurred Pip to take his first train ride in Japan nearly five years ago and he hasn't tired of it yet.

Because it takes slightly over an hour to travel to Akihabara, and because I was seated next to Pip on the train while the Ancient Mariner sat on the other side of the car with his nose in his Kindle, I can now offer you a fairly decent plot summary  of a post-Apocalyptic computer game set in Nevada and the Mohave Desert.  But I won't.

I suspect he gets his blow-by-blow verbal skills from me. Fortunately, he gets his looks from his father.