Yesterday, Cinnamon and I met up with my friend Courtney and her friend Megan to go see the *pnish* play, Samurai Mode. I had been wanting to see this group live and in person since 2005, so this was an awesome experience for me. And Cinnamon certainly enjoyed it too. The acting was great, there was a little dancing and plenty of sword fighting. We're both very glad we get to see it two more times next weekend.
This was a poster advertising the play just outside the main theatre, so we took a picture of us with it. (Don't ask what I'm looking at, because I have no clue.) After the play, the four of us hit up TGI Fridays in Shibuya to satiate Courtney's craving for American food, and it was almost 11pm by the time we got home.
This morning started of as an extremely early one (for me). We got up at 6am and were out the door by 6:40, headed to Harajuku to meet up with Courtney and Megan again so we could all go together to a street live being held in the park across from the NHK building. The street live was being put on by a 7-man group (similar to *pnish* in that they do a combo of acting and dancing) called Kitty Guys. Today marked the 1st anniversary of the group, so it was kind of a special thing.
The guy second from the right (with the white headband), Sueyoshi Kazuya, was actually in Samurai Mode as a guest star, and all of them have previously performed with other members of *pnish* in different performances, so the groups do share common interests.
You'd be happy to know I have video of them dancing (as taken by my digital camera, so not the best of quality), but unfortunately Vox has a max video size limit of 50mb and the video is 57mb... and I don't know how to make the video smaller. If anyone has a suggestion that's simple and doesn't require extra software, feel free to let me know and I'll upload it for you!
Unfortunately, we were only able to stay at the street live for about 45 minutes, since we had to immediately head to the middle of nowhere for Cinnamon's race, which was at 10am.
Or so we thought.
After hurrying as fast as we possibly could, we managed to get to the registration location (a middle school) at 9:50. But as it turned out, the women's race didn't start until 11! So Cinnamon had plenty of time to get registered and warm up before running.
I drew a helpful arrow in there in case you had trouble spotting the tall foreigner in the crowd. This was the group standing at the starting line (with the added bonus of a baseball game mere feet away). The race turned out to be on a dusty, rocky path that was far from scenic (a downer for Cinnamon), but it's not all bad news!
Since Cinnamon didn't like any of the pictures I took of her running, here you can see Gigantor herself (I say it out of love, of course - I mean look at how she towers over everyone!) right after she passed the finish line. The lady there is taking the timing chip off the back of her race number, in case you were wondering.
And out of all of the women in the race, Cinnamon managed to come in 5th! A big congratulations to her! She finished all 8k (about 5 miles) in under 40 minutes!
Oh, but that's not all!
She even got a trophy for it, a certificate (though we don't know exactly what it says) and a little gift! Plus, they gave her another gift for... some reason we're not sure of, so she made out quite well!
Here's all the stuff she got - 3 small towels (like washcloths), a larger towel (Lacoste brand!), her t-shirt, her trophy, a tote-like bag, the certificate, her time card and her race number. Not bad at all!
So, trophy and gifts in hand, we headed back for the station so Cinnamon could hit the shower and we could finally rest a little. On the walk back, we came across these guys, and I thought I should take a picture because they reminded me of gnomes (even though they're probably dwarves?) and we both thought Greg would appreciate it anyway. So if you're reading this, Greg, this picture is for you.
So far, we don't have any plans for tomorrow, but I think we'll sleep in for sure. We both got sunburned today (Cinnamon more than me), since we didn't figure we'd be in the sun so long. Also, stupid weather.com knows absolutely zilch about the weather in Tokyo. They forecast cloudy skies when it was very much sunny out.
(On a totally random note, we just felt another little earthquake a few minutes ago. It is such a weird sensation when you're not expecting it. It's so easy to try to justify things shaking as the result of thunder or a big truck going by, because living in Florida, the last thing you think of is an earthquake. I guess you get used to it after a while.)
Okay everyone, 'til next time~!
2 comments:
[いいですね] Congratulations to Cinnamon for taking 5th! That's so awesome.
HAHAHAHA!!! That's too funny! See, you can go half-way around the world, and you still can't get away from my army. They're everywhere!!!!!
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