An evening with drunk people.

Woke up -- grabbed some breakfeast with Kevin and Yoko (his mother).

Afterwards Kevin and I split up and began knuckling down on some practice for the tournament.

Later on when I was taking a break and wanting to use my computer, I then realized that none of the outlets in the house, or anywhere nearby had a three pronged input for my AC adapter..

.doh.

Soooo, Kevin and I hopped on bikes and went over to the Denkodo (electronics store) and they just so happened to sell a three-to-two prong adapter! WHEW! I lucked out, that was going to be a whole mess of suck.

Anyway, along the way we found a couple interesting sites..

On the way back we decided to inspect the park nearby and see how many drunk people were there that we could take advantage of.

-There were many. This time of year there are many people hanging out and grilling because it is festival season. Particularly during this week it is "Sakura Matsuri", which is basically "Cherry Blossom Viewing Festival". Families and friends get together and eat, drink, and play games. And since almost every park in the country has cherry blossoms in it, you can imagine that it's quite widely appreciated.

When we got home we picked up our Shamisens and strolled to the park to set up shop.

An hour or two later, we got a lot of practice in, made the crowd happy, and pulled  2,200 yen($22) and two beers.

--

We walked home and I played with the dog (Yuki) for awhile before we ate some dinner. Kevin's dad made some stuffed bell peppers, which, despite the fact that I don't like bell peppers at all, were good.

The rest of the night was spent in my room practicing my tournament piece. I was still very tired from travelling, so I fell asleep around nine or ten.