Sunday, September 23, 2007

Doyobi trip





























































We went on another trip this saturday. This time it was a bus trip sponsored by the school so we didn't have to go through all the extra plamming like last time. We stopped at various different places including a Sake Brewery, A temple/shrine park, a dairy farm, A mountain and the Arctic explorer museum. I made my own bento lunch even tho they bought us bento boxes, the food was attrocious as expected. Even the Japanese kids couldn't stomach the stuff. The Temple park was interesting. I saw no monks(probably busy praying) but plenty of cats. I call them the Kame Neko( the spirit cats). The farm was also nice save for the smell of cooked meat and the dairy they were selling in the store which was uncharacteristically dirty for a store owned by Nihonjinn. They had bunnies and dogs and a few sheep (like 3). I actually saw no cows. The Arctic museum itself was dull BUT the outdoors was grand. There was this cool life sized boat you could play on with slides and everything. There were also lots of these little penguin and husky statues as long as a giant whale statue that everyone was trying to climb on. The Sake house was informative but I mean..the only thing they said that was interesting was this one funfact:If you fall into the big tank of sake the cultures will pull you down to the bottom and you will die. No one can come rescue you beacause the wouldn't be able to see you, and the tank is over 10 feet deep and they probaly wouldn't be able to hear you either. The only thing I got from that experience was an allergic reaction(the place had serious mildew issues) and a fear of Breweries. All in all I had fun. The Bus ride was the one oart that drove me crazy. Oh I forgot to mention the mountain. We were only there for 20 minutes so there isn't much to say. The view was beautiful and the Tea in the Jihanki was too expensive.






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