Well last night couldn't sleep so thought I would join Jamie in the foreigner bar down the road. Now I don't know if I have mentioned this before but the Japanese like to get completely pissed on a regular basis. And when they do, they REALLY do, like slurring of speech, loss of the use of their limbs, etc.
So in the bar we met a completely rat arsed Japanese guy who could hardly talk. Here are a few pictures of us, and one with Jamie and this liver medicine that the guy gave us. He was insisting there was no LSD in it for some reason, but apparantly it is essential for drinking and he seemed to have no hangover today! So much so that he drank three more beers.
The chef was also incredibly drunk!! You can see the kitchen from the bar and it was hilarious watching him try and put a plate of food together when he could hardly see straight!!! (he kept the bar open till 5 which was nice!)
Well the Japanese guy told us he was going to a baseball game the next day and that we should go (even though it was sold out). And naturally we agreed! So that is what we spent the whole of today doing, watching a baseball game. And oh boy, it was crazy indeed.
Now baseball in Japan is very popular and they have a huge stadium in Sapporo for it, their team is called Nippon Ham Fighters (why ham?!)
Oh, and this is the kind of food they have at a baseball game in Japan, (as well as some funky looking hot dogs) called a bento box (which I'm sure most of you are familiar with). There were loads of different varieties to chose from!
So, to the game. The crazy thing was that everyone was constantly shouting chants and cheering and smacking their sticks together in unison. Every player has a different chant such as...
Go, go
Let's go
Kaneko,
which they shout over and over again. I don't know how they remember all of them!! To illustrate this better, refer to the videos on my facebook wall. So I will leave you with a few pictures.
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