Work, Work party, and the smell of tires

Headed to Takehito's for his lesson and then to work after. The Katsuya near my work has a new Shrimp cheese katsu don, which is a ricebowl with egg, breaded shrimp and cheese. It's awesome so I had that for lunch. After work I stopped home and then headed back out to Shinagawa for the work party. Of this type of party, it was probably the biggest I had been to. They usually have parties at some of the larger schools and they are usually smaller, but this one was pretty big and the CEO showed up at the end to say a few words to everyone and help with the clean up.

I left the party and headed home to change and grab my camera. I headed out to Kawasaki and met up with Mason. It was past 12 by the time we met up for the cops had already closed down all the parking areas and had the signs up discouraging the "Roulette Zoku", the people who race around the C1 loop.

Around 3 we wound up in Oifuto, a shipping area in Shinagawa and drove around there to get familiar with the area. We noticed a lot of tire tracks painting the road and decided it might be worth it to stick around for a bit. Stopped at a near by convenience store and got a meal to eat while we waited for something to happen. There were many cars parked along the side of the road waiting and some people were waiting on the median, some even with lawn chairs. The road is a 6-lane road on both sides so it has plenty of room for sliding. On the way back to the car from the convenience store there were a couple cars that drifted by and we knew it was on, but then it went quiet. We finished eating our food and about the time when we finished eating, it started back up. From there was was about 1-2 hours of street drifting! It was awesome! All of the drifters had papers taped over their licence plates to reduce the risk of getting a ticket. At about 4:45 everyone started leaving, so I think some police may have been on the way, so at that point we headed home. It was a good night.