As I walked to the train in Yokohama I looked at my phone and saw some one who's number I did not recognize had called me. This is usually pretty strange cause the only people who call are customers I know and my wife. More on that later.
Anyways I called the number back and no answered.
Bummer.
A minute later my phone rings and it is my favorite client. The office manager tells me she has some free tickets to WWE Smackdown on Saturday in Yokohama. Would I like to go? HELL YA is my reply. I made a few quick calls to work out the logistics of what we would and called her back and said I would love to take the tickets.
I stopped by their office and picked up the tickets and rode the bus back to Gotemba to see Eric. Along the way I drank a beer or 3 and sent some clients some e-mails and some how got of sync and screwed up a bunch of names. Now a 45 year old English man wants to know why I gave him my personal e-mail address.
I got home and crashed out.
The next day we all went to McD's and then from there Eric and I got on Shinkansen. On the way I showed Eric the tickets.
I thought Eric would be more excited than he was about it but he just wanted to draw his bugs on my notepad. He looks pretty happy about it here.
We got to Shin-Yokohama about a hour and half before show time. We went to the arena and I was prepared for a long boring wait. But it was anything but the case. Eric found that the WWE had a Smakdown Vs. RAW video game and easily pushed his way to the front of the line to play.
After getting his butt whooped by Ray Mystierio.
We got in this line that almost went around ¾ of the building. I was pretty impressed by how quick the line moved around the buliding. We were inside in no time and had no trouble getting to our seats.
When we got inside I found out that I not only got seats but some pretty prime seats 13 rows from the front. I got this shot of Eric in the front row.
Along the way I met a friend from the company who gave me the tickets. He offered me better seats which I thanked him for ..... but it turned out ours were a little better. So we stayed where we were and watched the sites.
Then there were these Japanese guys ......... wild they were dresses up like the current tag team champions. Oh there was a guy dressed like Kane who scared the crap out of my kid.
Then I saw Yosuke, a mid thirtys Japanese dude dressed up BRAVELY as the Rock. I have to admit from afar he could almost pass for the Rock. Sorry this picture sucks. Trust me he had the Rocks moves and look down.
Finally the show started and it was great Eric totally got into the whole thing. When every one would stand he would hop on to his chair to see. When the wrestlers would come out he jumped into the isle and dance like the guys in the ring. When he was bored (like during Ray the crippler Stevens match) he sat down and drew in a note pad I gave him.
Durring the Ray Mysterio VS Orlando Jones match he was so excited and almost fell off his seat after watching Ray do a 619 on Orlando. I think most had the same reaction was pretty stoked to see it live especially since it was right in front of us almost.
Eric is too smart for his own good. Before the show they were handing out signs that said YOU SUCK! Which people hold up and chant when Kurt Angle come out. I like Angle I know he has a role to play and he always does his part. A side effect of that is that people shout YOU SUCK when he comes out on stage. A 2 time gold meddle Olympic wrestler does not suck.
Anyways I gave Eric the sign and instructed him to hold it up on the side that says YEAH not the YOU SUCK side. He quickly observed that he was doing it wrong and looked at the sign looked at every one around us and then looked at the sign again and switched it to the YOU SUCK side. I tried to argue but it was useless.
We took the train back to Kichijoji and it was cold when we got there and almost 11 pm. My little guy showed no signs of tiring out. We stopped at Yoshinoya for some curry,cheese n rice.
It was a lot of fun and I want to thank every one at ...... for remembering how much I love wrestling and saving those tickets for me.
E./
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