Kate’s Quests

Yesterday I got together with Shara and three of her friends to go watch Sumo wrestling in Tokyo. It was awesome. There were several good matches and although I didn’t get those on film, I did get some good shots and video. It was actually very relaxing. I liked going up and just hanging out and watching the sport. So from the beginning…

I got up somewhere around 6:40am. That’s pretty normal for me so it’s not as though I got up super early. I jumped in the shower, had some breakfast and left the house around 8:20am to be in Yokosuka by 9:30am. The JR train lines don’t run as frequently as the Keikyu so I wanted to make sure that I got on a train to be on time. When someone tells me to be somewhere by a particular time…I make sure that I am. So, I arrived around 9:20 and had a few minutes to spare which was good because climbing down the mountain gave me blisters on the backs of my heels and I popped into a Kombini (convenience store) and got some bandaids. At 9:40, I called Shara to find out where they all were and she informed me that they were parking and were on their way. Meanwhile I ran into Terry (a guy on their ship who was coming with us and he had been there since 9:30am…our meeting time, as well.) So they finally showed up around 9:55am and we bought Suica cards (train ticket cards that you can just put money on, instead of buying an individual ticket each time you need to get on the train. Then we got on the 10:17 train and by 10:30 we were passing the train station I got on an hour and a half before! Anyway, so we made it into Tokyo and took a couple of wrong trains… and made it to Sumo at 12:15 or so (it started at 11:00am. But, it was an all day event so we saw plenty. It ended at 5:30pm. It was kind of amusing because the two other girls (Maria and Laura) weren’t feeling well and Laura starts talking about Reiki and telling Maria that she needs to find someone to do Reiki…yada yada yada. And I’m all ‘did someone say Reiki?’ So, I informed her that I do Reiki. So…there we are in the middle of a Sumo match doing Reiki. I thought that was pretty funny. Then we left around 5:00pm to make our way to dinner. We ate at a Brazilian restaurant called Barbacoa and that was amazing. It was an all you can eat place and they had this enormous salad bar with a ton of different salads and things to choose from. Plus different guys walked around all night offering pieces of BBQ’d meat and fruit and veggies. My favorite had to be the pineapple, but it was all really good. I’ll definitely have to take DJ back. He’ll LOVE it!