decided to get out of the city this past weekend. Tokyo is making me nuts.
I went canyoning up in gunma this weekend with my friends. canyoning is like white water rafting without the raft. basically you are the raft. they packed me into like 3 layers of wetsuits and i finally understood how it felt to be a sausage. you lay in the river and it washes you down and you jump off of cliffs and stuff. the water was absolutely freezing but we had a great time. we went rafting as well. i got tossed out of the raft and watched the boat glide over me. wheni popped out into the surface, i had to swim to a boat and got pulled on. when i got in, i realized it wasn't my boat! eventually i got back into my boat. it was great fun and we were completely soaked, wrecked, and bruised by the end of the day. at least is was a physical exhaustion instead of mental which was fantastic. we drove ourselves so we had a car so we fucked off and went to a local onsen to warm up. it was great. all that was missing was a back rub.
there was a full moon party later that night but not til much later so we decided to get trashed before. ever well prepared, we brought our own provisions such as booze and snacks. (side bar: did i write about the tequila shots we did at club Vanilla in roppongi for new years? well it was totally nasty cuz they didn't have any salt or lime wedges so i vowed to make sure we did tequila right the next time. all this has a point as you will see in a sec.) i took the pirate game which i got as for my secret santa gift 2 chrissys ago (it's the one where you stab the barrel with different colored knives in the slots until the pirate pops out. it's brilliant!) i also brought a bottle of tequila, lime wedges, and salt. the game involved popping the pirate, spinning the bottle, and doing a modfied body shot off the person the bottle pointed to. what is a modified body shot, you ask? instead of wasting the tequila like college students on summer break in mexico, you lick a part of a person (your choice where) and they hold the lime wedge between theyr teeth. you salt the place you licked, like the salt off, down the tequila, and take the lime wedge out of their mouth with yours. it was pretty tame in the beginning but it got pretty crazy towards the end. as you can imagine, we all got pretty trashed.
after we finished off the tequila, we cleaned up and went out to the party which pretty much sucked cuz it was all trance music and it was very drizzelly. i left very early and crashed out as i had barely any sleep the nite before.
the next day, we had a groggy morning. my friend cor and i went out for a walk which was actually very nice. i loved getting out of the damn city and breathing fresh air for a change. around midday, we went out to this special co-ed onsen which was really bizarre. weird dudes just walking around with their bits all over the place! there were several different baths so we went around and tried all of them. we didn't nude up, we went with a biggish towel around us. it was so strange to wear next to nothing after we had been squeezed into so many layers the day before. after our onsen, we toddled home and back to the city. it was quite a weekend.
my only regret is that i have no pictures because we couldn't really take a camera. during the rafting and the canyoning, there is NO PLACE to put a camera and it would have been a bit obscene to take a camera into the onsen (althought several people were just snapping shots all over the place). the few pictures i do have are from the tequila shot pirate game which will be saved for blackmail purposes only. should a blackmailing occasion arrive, i shall post the pix on this blog. yep, you heard it here first!
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