A Dave-and-Anna Weekend
Friday was impromtu kareoke; some people dropped out at the last minute, some showed up at
the last minute. The fabulous Dave and Anna duo were those that showed up! Yeah! If you don't recall, Dave (Brit) lives about 20 minutes from Shimodate, in Ninomiya, where Tressa and I sometimes teach. His girlfriend, Anna (Kiwi), lives just outside Tochigishi, which is about 35 minutes away, in the other direction (past Oyama). When they're around its a guaranteed good time; how could it not be with Dave singing "Parklife" and Anna, "Vogue?"The hotel we tried to book for Tokyo on Saturday fell through: no vacancy. :( Happily, Dave and Anna invited us to join them in Utsunomiya for a Blue Birthday (everyone must wear blue). We had no idea what we were getting into. Tressa and Jody and I met up with Anna and Treva
(American) at Anna's cute apartment to get ready, and the girls had some champagne and strawberries (at $8.00 a bottle, why not?). We all drove up to Utsu and Dave met us there. Party #1 was at a rustic-themed izakaya (pub) called WaruWaru; we 
walked in and couldn't even get a seat with the group, since about 35 people were already there, including many of our Tochigi JET pals. Eventually another table left, and there was room for us. The food was excellent, but the pub was too warm (in Japan it is always eit
her freezing cold or sweating hot indoors). After a few fresh kiwi-grapefruit sours we walked over to Darts Bar (which is the English translation for the real name) for Party #2. We'd been here a bunch of times, but had never seen it so busy! This place is cool: it sports cement walls and floors, chandeliers, sporatically-placed sofas and arm-chairs and, you guessed it, electronic dart-boards. Brittany, the birthday girl actually barely made it to Darts Bar, and was unfortunately holed-up in the loo much of
the time... her friends had to take her home and call it an early night.Party #3 was across the street and up six floors to Birdland; the lone danceclub in Ustu. Again, been there before, but never seen i
t so busy. I usually consider having a girl-to-guy ratio of 1:10 a good thing, but many of the guys were pervy. Thankfully our good friend Billy met us at Darts Bar and played the "boyfriend" role all night (this involves us leaching on to him if a pervy guy starts grinding on us and yelling "boyfriendo! boyfriendo!" Billy was also really good at noticing lurkers in advance and casually moving us out of their potential clutches; I think he liked his job... hmmmm, why???It was great to catch up with some old friends from thata way; haven't been to Utsu for months, and they noticed. As the JETs have recently had to renew or not renew their contracts for next y
ear, it was a little sad to find out who is staying and who is moving on. I don't know if any of you remember my mentioning a hot 
black guy (Mike) I met at Birdland months ago, but he found me again on Saturday. In my drunken state, I didn't really remember him at first, but he was still hot, so I let him buy my a few drinks.Tokyo is postponed indefinitely. Having missed the opportunity this weekend, we feel that we have too much else to do in February, what with moving, etc., so we will likely leave it until March. Actually, I have no camera right now (except keitai one, which is annoying because then I have to email my pictures to myself, which costs $. I had to send good one to Canada for repairs), so I'd rather just wait anyway.
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