Evan's goodbye bbq

Evan has sadly took his leave of us in Agamachi and he is definitely missed. I could usually count on him to go for Chinese food or yasaiitame at the Minagawaya plus there were our great times at taiko practice. We had a goodbye BBQ for him at the end of July on a riverbank in Muramatsu. The location was quite beautiful and we ended up playing cornhole and swimming in the freezing cold mountain stream. Unfortunately only a few of us opted to stay along with the rain. It ended up being four of us around a campfire huddled under our umbrellas talking and playing drinking games. It was actually quite enjoyable but I realized the next day that had its drawbacks. Namely, fifty or so monster mosquito(or some other creature from the insect family that enjoys sucking blood) bites covering my legs. They were really quite gross because the bites swelled up to massive proportions so it looked like the surface of my skin was bubble wrap though not as uniformed. I survived of course but it was an itchy few days.

The preparations

Iwan and his girl!

Minori and Aiko


The man of the hour