"Scottish" Games???

I suppose I should be used to it by now, but there are still some things that mess with my head (not having a policy on cheating was the latest school issue) here in Japan. On Sunday we went to the 23rd Japan Scottish Highland Games near Tokyo. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but apparently it wasn’t Japanese people wearing kilts, doing the Scottish dances and playing bagpipes. It was great! We had lots of fun watching the dancers and heavy events. There were no meatpies, but we recovered from that sad discovery and ended up finding a great restaurant in Tokyo for dinner. That was after we had gone to the train station and ridden the escalator up to the train platform. As we got to the top, apparently the platform was full and we got pushed into other people and basically there was no room up there, but the escalator was faithfully doing its job and bringing more and more people up to the platform. I couldn’t stop laughing as people pressed in from all sides, until I thought about falling over the side and onto the tracks. Hmmm…and then a baby in a stroller started to cry and it got a little scary. Luckily a train came, all the people got on and all was well, but it was an interesting experience all around. Never a dull moment around here!