nothing to prove

men in thongs

Again I got to spend a great weekend with the crazies! Megan, Jamie and I all went down to Tokyo together on Friday because Michelle was already there with her family. The main reason for going down was to seen sumo but that obviously doesn’t mean that was the only thing we did all weekend. When we arrived all of us headed to ni chome in Shinjuku, which is the gay district of Tokyo. The great thing about this area is that there is constantly a happy hour, which is a rare thing in Japan, going on Fridays. It was the girls first time to ni chome so I had to show them a good time. First we went to an open bar called Advocates for the start of the night. Once there, we started socializing with lots people, new and familiar, and generally had a great time. The atmosphere was fun but we headed to the next bar, called Arty Farty, because they had the next happy hour and a dance floor. Before we knew it the night of drinking and dancing was over and everyone crashed.


The next morning I was with Shaun, a great guy I had met the night before and clicked with, to walk around Tokyo for a bit. After much debate, we ended up getting lunch at Subway and it was amazing. It is surprising how much I miss a good sub sandwich in this country. Then it was off to Shinjuku Park to bask in the beautiful day, talk and just hang out. Then we did a little bit of shopping. Shaun needed to get a book for the plane and I needed to get a late birthday present, sorry Matty. Afterwards Shaun was meeting a friend to go to Disneyland and I had sumo. We parted ways and I went to meet the crew at sumo, only to meet up a bit later to say goodbye before he headed back to Australia. People enter each others lives for a reason but it is never easy when there is something there and you have to let it go.



Sumo was awesome! Megan, Jamie, John, and I all went together. We had seats in the balcony of the small stadium. Before hand we grabbed some beer at the nearby convenience store and did some mid-afternoon drinking, which is actually not strange when watching sumo. We decided to add to the event by naming the wrestlers and placing bets on who would win. The amateurs were fine but the professional wrestlers were amazing and the bouts were pretty intense. It was a fun afternoon before we headed out for the evening.


That night we went to a place called MoMo Paradise for sukiyaki (Japanese stew) and all you can eat and drink. We were a little ridiculous and went near closing so we stuffed our faces and drank as much as we could, full throttle as we put it. Meanwhile Michelle and her family were nearby so they occasionally stopped by and probably wondered why we had some many drinks with so much food. Afterwards Jamie, Megan, Michelle, Nicole, and I all went out to dance. Of course I got kicked out of the club for wearing sandals, one of these days I will wise up and brings shoes to Tokyo, so I crashed early that night. The next day we got up a little late but still managed to do some last minute shopping before heading back to Niigata. All in all, another insanely busy weekend of fun in Tokyo.

posted by Aaron @ 7:27 AM