HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Onomatsu beya's 阿武松部屋 Amuru 阿夢露 turned 25 on August 25th!
Congratulations!!!!!

One of my best friends; Chris with Amuru taken at the Natsu basho in May! Amuru doesn't look so tall alone but next to Chris you can see he really is a tall guy! 192cm or 6'3" but very sexy and fit! He's just 109kgs (240lbs) and he is ALL muscle!

Sexiest Oyakata!!!
Futagoyama Oyakata of Otake Beya

I couldn't resist just posting this picture now that I got it downloaded from my camera!! Last week I had to stand in line all night Thursday to buy tickets to the September basho. In the morning (looking scary from being up and drinking wine all night..) I saw Futagoyama Oyakata doing Sumo Exercises with young rikishi and some other local people in front of the Kokugikan before taking care of kid's sumo training. He saw me outside the gate and invited me and my new friend Yuko in from where we were watching!

After the exercises we even got a stamp card saying we participated. In fact I did absolutely nothing but take pictures since I was wearing a dress! Wait, I did do something... I flirted with the Oyakata!

With the stamp card were some Hello Kitty plastic dishes, bottle of water and some candy. Not to mention the best benefit, a hug and a photo with the Sexy Oyakata!! Can you believe he looks so good in Mawashi? He's almost 48 years old! There are a lot of current rikishi who do not look this good in Mawashi!!!

I wish I lived closer to the Kokugikan (as in not a few hours and tons of highway tolls and gas away here in Saitama!) that way I would be able to go every day from next Monday for two weeks to the morning practices for summer. Get more stamps on my card and more hugs?

Thank you Futagoyama Oyakata! I was dead tired, no sleep in two days and you really made my day!!!!!

I will write and post pictures of the great event of standing in line to buy sumo tickets. Incredible but I had fun, made new friends and it wasn't so bad. I got exactly the seats I wanted and enough tickets thanks to Shoo-kun who gave me his number to buy two more boxes!! Only two boxes per number so Tomomi and I worried what we would do but got lucky to meet nice Teikyo University boys (Takuya & Shoo) and got one of their numbers!

I have pictures of people "camping" in tents so I'll get them posted soon! Unbelievable!!! We arrived at 11pm and the first people were there before 8pm.