Last night I went to Esashi in Iwate-ken for some kind of special New Year festival with dancing elk. Rather, there were people dressed in fancy costumes with elk antlers attached. It was pretty neat.
But my friends agreed that the most amusing part of the evening was the crazy drunk guy with one glass eye and two teeth who kept talking to us. At one point he was making catcalls at the dancers, and at another he brought a whole box of sake to drink in one sitting. Wacky.
Happy New Year! I wasn’t sure if they celebrated that in Japan or not. Do they count down with a Waterford crystal ball? Or just run around in elk antlers?