CRAZY JOURNEY: DAY 85 - LAST DAY SKIING TO TOKYO

AUSSIEBUM SLALOM and MAD NIGHT IN TOKYO!

Dave prepares himself for the AussieBum Slalom!

Bruised and battered after several jump attempts the previous days, we all decided that our last days skiing would have to end in a Slalom race. To make things interesting, and for the purpose of good footage for Aussiebum, someone came up with the stupid idea to do the slalom in just our boxers. The idea was to go over to the other side of the resort and find a quiet slope. As luck would have it, what started off as a sunny, cloud-free day turned into a miserable blizzard just as we arrived, which forced the closure of the secluded spot where we planned to nude up! With 'seasoned' skier Mr Paul Sokhi spending more time on his backside then on his skis, we had to trek all the way back to the front slope to eventually get our kit off and provide the locals with a skiing extravaganza!

Dave was first off with his kit, followed closely by the others. Fintan conveniently took his time to the starting point on a chair-lift, forcing the others to brave the elements for 10 minutes while waiting! Eventually, with encouragement from resort staff and shocked Japanese onlookers, the boys hit the slopes for a few runs as well as some baltic chair lift rides, leaving them blue and numb for the long ride home.

The CrazyJourney 1st VI Ski Team 2008

Standing L to R: Fintan Edgar Gillespie, Paul 'The Yeti' Sokhi, Jamie MacDonagh

Seated L to R: Charles Ross-Smith, Rhys Owen Baker, David Austin Foran

That evening, we caught a bullet train back to Tokyo for our last night in Japan before our flight to India the next day. Rhys Dave and Fintan went out with with the Scots Jamie and Paul for a final meal of sushi and after a few sake, it was decided that Fintan, Dave and Rhys take on a 'sushi challenge', where each person would choose the most unappetising piece of sushi for the other bloke to eat, only to have the 'privilege' returned to him. Needless to say we made the most of the opportunity to ruin the great meal we just had and after forcing some of the most bizarre and rancid sushi Japan has to offer, (the worst being Japanese Sea Ants for Fintan) upon each other we decided to make a night of it and hit the town. With a stroke of good luck, we ended up in a nightclub full of western catwalk models living in Japan...OH YEAH! Sometimes it's surprising how a night can escalate from nothing but we all went a bit mad to say the least!

The place was full of nothing but ugly girls!

With an early flight the next day (a recipe for disaster) the night ended in the early hours of the morning, all of us dressed head to toe in stupid turtle-like outfits which was the result of a chance passing via a costume shop that was strangely still open at 3AM. In our given states, none of us even questioned it, and turned the shop into a mess trying to find the most ridiculous kit we could. The carnage only ended when 12 Japanese policemen arrived and booted us out. However not before drunken logic kicked in with Dave deciding it necessary to purchase a pink suitcase to fit all our clothes we had just taken off. See photos below to try and make sense of what was going on...absolutely mad night!