Molly, Marshall, Ben and I met up again Saturday to go to a party in Yoyogi Park, in Tokyo. Basically the same type of deal as the hanami party, only without the excuse of pretending to be there to look at flowers, since there aren't really many sakura left anymore.
The party was hosted by "Amazon," one of the people we'd met at Satoshi's hanami party last weekend. That's obviously not his real name, but he'd lived in Brazil or somewhere for a while, and so now goes by "Amazon." lol. He's part of a samba-drumming team, so that was the ostensible purpose of the party. Although really, it just ended up as a drinking picnic.
And we weren't the only ones with this idea, either. ^_^ I took these pictures pretty early on in the day, so it was still fairly empty--it got a *lot* busier later on. 
Amazon and some of his friends broke out the drums and started playing for a good chunk of the party. That's "Amazon" on the right. And yes, he seems to usually dress like that. 
It got pretty active, too--they were giving drumming lessons, and several people came over to dance. It lasted for a while--until some self-important grandma decided we were being a nuisance and called the equivalent of the park security to come over and hush us up. (we knew it was her, because we saw her gesturing and shaking her finger at the security people after, lol).
Rikako was at the party, too, as were several other people who'd been at hanami last week. Although Satoshi was MIA, off "being an idiot" as Rikako surmised. "Baka" seems to be her favorite way to describe Satoshi (lol).
And of course, true to form, there was a 二次会 afterparty as well, although I didn't go. Had to get up pretty early to get to Yoyogi, plus I stayed up pretty late Friday night cause we had a donuts-hot cocoa-movie party at Felicia's. ^_^
But then, we actually ended up having an "afterparty" of our own, lol. Jeff's old college roommate was visiting, and Jeff wanted to show him Thrash Zone. Of course, Jeff hadn't been there yet himself, and as the place is absolutely impossible to give anyone directions to, Molly, Jason and I went along to show them the way.
Fun!
The adventures of a former North Carolinian and recovering Yalie, loose in Japan for the first time.
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What lovely flowers -- the flower tower is quite incredible. And the water makes me pine for the ocean.
The MOM
the flowers do look lovely, even if the blossoms are mostly on the ground now! i guess you're hanami'ing the ground? things are just beginning to bloom here (though we almost killed all the flowers in the freeze a few nights ago, i think somehow they're weathering the weather... or something)
anyway, i hope you are enjoying yourself and that Thrash was fun... though it sounds kind of scary... "we actually ended up having an 'afterparty' of our own" and the THRASH ZONE??? there were no spiked collars, drugs, or fights were there? just checking...
love you hon and thanks for talking with me the other day, i miss you! and, of course, have a lovely day and don't let the obaachans get in the way of your fun!
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