A perfect weekend

Man I love the Autumn weather here in Japan. "Akibara," is what the Japanese folks call it, and the literal translation is "sun shining on an Autumn day." What that translates to me is, good forkin' weather! It's sunny but not too hot, just enough to warm you when your standing in the rays, but there isn't a drop of humidity in the air. It's got a slight breeze to it, enough to ruffle your hair, but not enough to make your eyes sting or anything like that. It's GREAT!

So, in the spirit of good weather, I had an action packed 3 day weekend. On Saturday, I did yoga at home, and then went to Himeji for frisbee - we had a practice game against the Okayama University team. Usually about 15 people turn up for our practices. Okayama alone brought about 35 players, and all of them were really awesome (I found out later that this is the team that took first place at the beach tourney I went to last spring)! We ended up playing for 4 hours, the runs were so good.
It's about a 2 hour drive, so it was really nice that they came down to play us. Otsukare sama deshita! (Thanks for putting in the hard work!)... BUT we were lucky to have height and home advantage, and in the end we spanked them and sent them back to the dorms.

Yesterday I finally got a chance to go to the yoga class in Tatsuno, which took 30 minutes for me to reach by bike, but it was in this really cool athletic area called a "budo-jo," which is a traditional Japanese room used for karate, aikido, kendo, and other ass kicking martial arts practice. It was kinda weird doing asanas and meditation in this room where typically people are beating each other up, but after clearing out all the junk from my brain, it was really relaxing and I had a good session.

Afterwards, I went to Ayame's birthday party in Himeji, where we all stayed up until 5am hanging out and celebrating. Ayame is such a rockstar and has a hard liver man! I watched her pound down martinis like she was drinking coca cola. Atta girl. Needless to say, today was a little slow, and Markane, Quappa, and I went to Ako in the afternoon to have Okonomiyaki and for a long drive along the seaside.

It was a good weekend!