My arms are going to fall off
Tours are cool because you get to see a bunch of neat places and have a guide tell you all about them. They’re also good because they give Soto a chance to draw on the bus while you’re waiting for the rest of the people at the pick up place.
Tours are not cool because there are far too many people so you can’t get close enough to hear the guide, and you have to move on to the next sight so fast.
We had to wake up early for the tour, so we got to see the sunrise in Shinagawa.
If you look really closely, there a really bright little dot at the bottom of the clouds. That’s the sun. Hello Sun.
We actually bussed it up to the fifth rest point on Fuji-san, but it was so foggy that we couldn’t see the peak.
The peak is somewhere behind those clouds… I think.
I would have liked to be able to hike it up the mountain and get stamps burned into my hiking stick, but sigh, tour. Instead I got takoyaki from the booth that had this stuff on display:
This was inside one of the shops. It’s a palm reading machine. I thought it was funny.
After that we went to the South side of Fuji-san for a quick cruise on Lake Ashi and a cable car ride up one of the mountains there, just like I did 4 years ago with Priory. But again, fog.
This is what they want you to think it looks like, sans the bad quality of the picture.
This is what it was actually like. Wonderful view, yes? XD
After that we went to our hotel in Hakone with the pretty pretty garden.
See pyrokitsune, I told you I hadn’t gotten to this day in the backlog yet. ^_^
We had teppanyaki for dinner which was yummy but completely unenjoyable for me. I like cheap steak, and being able to not finish my strange vegetables without visibly offending the chef. But the baths were really relaxing. I still have to figure out how hot 40 deg. C is in Fahrenheit.
And in current news, I had my first full Judo practice today. Ooooooowwwwww!!!! But not in a sharp, bleedy sort of way. It’s more a hey, my muscles are so dead I can’t lift my arms above my head kind of ache. I’ll have to work on the flexibility and horse stance on my own, foo, but I’ll get really good at sit ups and the weirdest pushups I’ve ever had to do. Also, it’s a little uncomfortable when the guy teaching me requests that I grab his pants dangerously close to his bum. #O.O#
Tours are not cool because there are far too many people so you can’t get close enough to hear the guide, and you have to move on to the next sight so fast.
We had to wake up early for the tour, so we got to see the sunrise in Shinagawa.
If you look really closely, there a really bright little dot at the bottom of the clouds. That’s the sun. Hello Sun.
We actually bussed it up to the fifth rest point on Fuji-san, but it was so foggy that we couldn’t see the peak.
The peak is somewhere behind those clouds… I think.
I would have liked to be able to hike it up the mountain and get stamps burned into my hiking stick, but sigh, tour. Instead I got takoyaki from the booth that had this stuff on display:
This was inside one of the shops. It’s a palm reading machine. I thought it was funny.
After that we went to the South side of Fuji-san for a quick cruise on Lake Ashi and a cable car ride up one of the mountains there, just like I did 4 years ago with Priory. But again, fog.
This is what they want you to think it looks like, sans the bad quality of the picture.
This is what it was actually like. Wonderful view, yes? XD
After that we went to our hotel in Hakone with the pretty pretty garden.
See pyrokitsune, I told you I hadn’t gotten to this day in the backlog yet. ^_^
We had teppanyaki for dinner which was yummy but completely unenjoyable for me. I like cheap steak, and being able to not finish my strange vegetables without visibly offending the chef. But the baths were really relaxing. I still have to figure out how hot 40 deg. C is in Fahrenheit.
And in current news, I had my first full Judo practice today. Ooooooowwwwww!!!! But not in a sharp, bleedy sort of way. It’s more a hey, my muscles are so dead I can’t lift my arms above my head kind of ache. I’ll have to work on the flexibility and horse stance on my own, foo, but I’ll get really good at sit ups and the weirdest pushups I’ve ever had to do. Also, it’s a little uncomfortable when the guy teaching me requests that I grab his pants dangerously close to his bum. #O.O#