i guess there are positive things to having jet lag once in a while. several of my colleagues woke up at 4 a.m. to explore and eat at the famous fish market and those of us playing baseball were all able to get up and catch a 7:30 a.m. bus we rented to take us to the field (which was pretty far and would have been quite difficult to find on one's own).
when we arrived, we were able to warm up a bit before the other team showed up. i thought we looked pretty good in our matching team jerseys (the philadelphia firebirds) even though some of us were wearing shorts (me) and others had on full baseball attire. but when the tokyo symphony arrived in their authentic baseball uniforms, we knew they meant business. ironically, our principal tuba player as well as artistic designer/coordinator and distributor for our team jersey, carol jantsch, forgot to bring hers!
by the end of the first inning, we were down 4-2 but that quickly changed w/ some great pitching (danny matsukawa and chris deviney) and hitting on our part. in the end, we triumphed 18-6.
afterwards, we were pretty hungry so several of us went in search of a favorite ramen restaurant discovered on the orchestra's last tour of asia. we took a train to the ginza section of tokyo but after walking around for a while, couldn't find it so had to settle for another place that turned out to be excellent. another group actually went to watch live sumo wrestling. the pictures they took were pretty cool so hopefully someone will post them up.
pauline and i headed back to our friend's place after lunch and relaxed before dinner. we actually rode bikes to the restaurant where we met several members of our friends' church. we ate some amazing japanese style steak and hung out for a while.
so after a long (and victorious) day of baseball, searching for ramen and biking around town, we went to bed for a hopefully more restful night of sleep. it's back to reality tomorrow w/ a morning rehearsal and our first concert of the tour.
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