For all the raffle tickets i've ever had and never won.....

.....tonight truly made up for it.

At tonight's show party there was a raffle of various things, everyone that bought a ticket to the party gor a free raffle ticket.

We went through Koi food, filter media, Koshi Hikari rice, a Canon SLR and a DVD player, amongst many other things.

Whilst the raffle progressed it was obvious that many people had tens of tickets.  I joked to Hisashi Hirasawa that he had many and I had just one.  He gave me another.  At the same time Mitsunori San gave me another.

It came to the final item in the raffle.

The caller announced ni-sen, go-hyaku, nana-ju, i needed just the last number, number 9.  When the caller said kyu I was truly gobsmacked.

The ticket was one given to me by Mitsunori Isa, the pic below is me with my raffle prize.

That's Mitsunori-san on the right!