On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Hitoshi Doi wrote:

> My busy three day weekend.. (^_^;
> (Monday was a national holiday in Japan.)

Christmas is a workday, but you get the first day of Spring and
Autumn off in Japan!

> On Saturday (9/22), I went to the Tokyo Verdy 1969 soccer game.
> Of course it wasn't to watch the soccer game, but to watch the
> Veru Pola Girls.

Didn't they have a mini-riot at a Verdy game a couple weeks back?

> The Veru Pola girls stand by the goods corner from 17:00 to 19:00.
> They let people into the stadium at 17:00, and the soccer game starts at
> 19:00.  But they let the Verdy fan club members into the stadium at 16:40.
> I didn't think being a fan club member was beneficial, but I saw the
> Veru Pola girls come out at around 16:50.
> So I rushed in, and talked to Noa before the ordinary crowd. (^_^;

Is this "legal"?  I thought you had a code of leaving the talent alone
outside of the events...

> On Sunday (9/23), I had a baseball game at 12:30.  It was the first game of
> the Autumn Tournament, and we won easily (slaughter rule).  Since my injured
> left shoulder was still hurting, they used a DH and I only got to pitch. 
(;_;)
 
> So I didn't feel like I did much, but I improved my record to 13-4.

Hitoshi suffered a dislocated shoulder boogie-boarding in Hawaii.
Of course, he blamed it on a bad board...(^_^;)

> I ate two Tsukimi Burgers at McDonalds on the way home. (^_^;

This is a hamburger with egg (imagine Egg McMuffin as a hamburger)
Available for a limited time only!

> On Monday (9/24), there was a Miyanishi Noa (Nagai Nobuko) photo
> session at Kasai Rinkai Kouen (next to Tokyo Disneyland).
> But the meeting place was Hamamatsu-cho at 9:20 in the morning!
> We were going to take a boat from Hamamatsu-cho to the park, so we
> had to meet early.  The boat left at 10:00, and the boat ride was
> a little less than one hour.

Only a 20-minute trip from Tokyo station...
They have a really huge Ferris Wheel there now.  I think you can even
see it from the Ferris Wheel in Odaiba.

> Then the photo session in the park was from 11:00 to 15:45,
> with about one hour break for lunch.
> It was a very nice day (no clouds at all), so I got sun-tanned/burnt
> a lot.  I just took 7 rolls of pictures.. should have taken more. (;_;)

Great weather since Sunday.  Mid-September is an excellent time to
come to Tokyo!

You forgot to put train and boat fare into "money spent"

  - Joe