New Year's Heave!

Oh, the ladies of the night! What beautiful music they make!
Well, maybe... I guess it depends on the Count.
You see, the thing with the Tokyo Harriettes is, there weren't all that many harriettes on trail. I would say the male hashers outnumbered the females almost two to one. Travesty? Perhaps... Surprising? Yes!
One shant complain though when there is another twisty-curvy trail through the Tokyo subdistrict streets.
We started out this time at a quaint little Indian restaurant with the illustrious hares of Tidy Whitey and Spud Poker (again!?) spreading the New Year's cheer with chalk and flour.
Yes, this trail was an early set (around 1400) on the 31st of December, to ready the illustrious hashers for a full night of drinking, partying and debauchery.
It was also a slight pre-lube for the Samurai Hash actual New Year's trail where they started at 2300 and ran into 2009 in the most literal of ways (I didn't go to that one though, so that is my mention of it for this post).
Trail was a touch longer than Monday's Tokyo H3 trail, this time clocking in at a grand 10k. Nice, nice! It was more city running, more pavement pounding, but the hares did a great job (again) of keeping things interesting. Jettisoning the pack through small parks, over playground equipment and through the front area of a museum with loads of nude sculptures for daring hashers to pose with in defiling ways (no one is innocent at the hash, even statues!).
One harriette did a "riding" pose on a laying male statue, I fiercely grabbed a nude female statue that looked to be of age, but the top shot for the photo album (not mine as I didn't have my camera, but I hope it appears quite soon on hashspace!) was Anchor Twat poking her head between the legs of a statue of a young girl (13? 15?) in a dress and looking decidedly UP.
And then, as the picture was taken, Wee Willy Wanker decided to add in a bit of nipple licking on the statuette as well. OOOOOH, DIRTY MAN!
We all arrived at the On-In at a reasonable time after galloping through a couple of the bigger shrines where people were setting up their booths for the evening, and with the pack together in a reasonable fashion, we gave a few quick down-downs and then headed into the warm restaurant to continue circle and eat and drink ourselves merry.
Inside it was a smaller group this time as several hashers cut out to prep themselves for the Samurai hash later on.
Never the less, it was good food, a good (and loud!) circle and a great time. I got to chat with Slowy Gonzales a bit about Japan as it turns out he's a Puerto Rican who lives out here selling coffee beans to the local shops. He hooked me up with some Milk Thistle to help clean out my liver some too, which was very cool.
Afterwards, everyone set off to wherever they were going to celebrate the turn of the 00. I went back to the capsule in Shinjuku for a quick shower, then over to Shibuya where most of the "party" crowd had gathered.
Honestly, it was a touch anti-clamatic. Things were much more ordered and organized (and controlled) than Las Vegas, but with the same party vibe. It was almost a been there, done that feeling that I had.
No worries though, for Japan the New Year runs pretty much the entire week (with the 5th being a full on National holiday), so I still had the opportunity to celebrate properly over the next few days.