At 4:00 on Friday afternoon, we were given tickets to the final regular season professional baseball game between the Yoimuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows. The game started at 6:30, so we hit the trains at 6:00 to arrive at Yakult stadium in plenty of time. On the way, we picked up 2 tall boys and burgers and fries. We were told to bring what we wanted for some reason. Upon arriving, we realized that was a useless bit of advice. Plenty of dogs, noodles, sushi, and beer were at our fingertips, once inside the stadium. Not realizing there was more than one stadium in the area, we first stopped at a smaller field, and we're about to enter with people cheering us on, only we had no idea what they were screaming at us. Further
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