SUMO!!!!

The only travesty of this day was getting up at 6am.
Either way it was worth it, as it saved 1600 yen off the ticket.
We got there (Josh Anthony and I) pretty early - we were one of the first 200. Basically the arena was empty so we grabbed front row seats for the amateurs. It was pretty amusing especially with the ritual lasting 10 times longer than the bout.

Later we got up for our lunch break, wandered aimlessly around the town - being autumn equinox everything was closed. Eventually we found a little shop and got fairly cheap meals....I really need to stop eating so much ramen. We then checked out this crazy art museum that looked something like starwars and had the craziest escalator ever - it leveled off at one point - now that invention. The museum was sick there was a giant bridge in the middle of it and it was all edo period stuff from Japan. There was a funky little folk performance and plenty of touchables to Josh's supreme delight.

After that we hit up sumo for the big matches between the pros. I was down for everything except for near the end they would literally take 10 minutes just to get psyched up, get all the advertising out there and make sure they threw salt at least 500 times. At the very end we got to see one of the grand champions who savaged a 100 yen bet I had going with Josh - and in fantastic style he improved his record to 9-1!

We also sat in pretty much every seat available - kicked bumped and moved around!

So it was a good day except for the very end in which I missed Aisha's performance because I got back so late....and got chewed out for it. :(. But one person can only do so much. SORRY AISHA, you know I never intended it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and I also got to meet a grand champion and get an autograph!!