I was a Shrivelled Ume over this past weekend.  Wakayama ken sent two teams to compete in the Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Tajima, Hyogo-ken.   The other team were the Juicy Mikans.  We played hard and I left with some scraps.  Brad, who was a Juicy Mikan left with a broken collar bone.  We played at Tajima Dome's ginormous grassy field.  A grassy field is pretty rare in Japan, especially one of that size. Other teams came from all over Japan, Tokyo, Osaka, Yamaguchi, Fukui, Ehime, and  so on.  Stayed at a campgroud and camped in my big old blue tent that I bought from Conan.  It rained a throughout the whole weekend, but too hard when we had to play.  
   On the way I up to Hyogo I drove to Kouya-san to pick up David.  Me, David and Eric decided to try to the Double Tamago sandwich at McDonalds and had a disasterous time ordering at the drive-thru.  We also decided to take the scenic route there and took the Wangan in Osaka through to Kobe and almost all the over to Himeji before cataching the Sanya going norht and feeding into the Bantan.  Instead of the going to the yaki-niku party at the lodge near the camp site, I headed up to Kinosaki with Hikaru not to eat kani, but to have some Tajima gyuu.  Couldn't find a place that served that beef, so we ended up having so facy yaki-niku.  That was after we had gone to one of the nicest onsens I have ever been to.  This onsen even had a 'penguin sauna' where the tempreture was a mere 5 degrees celcius.    Am still tired from the weekend and nursing my scraps and a burn on my finger from trying to launch 10 bottle rockets at once in the parking lot. 
   Yesterday was nice though.  Shougakko Monday, went to Kasamatsu-shou and taught some English and went swimming with the students in the pool for an hour.