Well, I Love a Rainy Night

A couple of my old college buddies flew in on Saturday afternoon for a 10-day Japan tour. We're staying fairly local during their visit, but so far have seen Kamakura and Hakone. Tomorrow night, we're going to head up to Yokohama and try to catch the baseball game between the Bay Stars and the Yomiuri Giants, if it doesn't sell out before we can get tickets.

But the real big story of the trip so far belongs to my buddy, Tom. In an effort to fight off jet lag, on Saturday night I took the guys out on the town in downtown Yokosuka. A tropical storm was passing by just off the east coast of Japan, so we'd been experiencing some heavy rain. On our way home for the evening, poor Tom hit a wet spot on the marble sidewalk area in front of a local hotel, slips, and lands head first on the ground. Knocked himself out cold.

Here's a picture of us out on the town:



Here's a picture of Tom the morning after:



Today, he was actually able to open up that left eye of his a little bit.