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Sunday, July 25, 2004
yes kathy, i went to mt.fuji...
and survived. sort of.
it`s been a week and a day since the descent from mt.doom, er, mt. FUJI and i am still sniffly and eye-irritated. not a good condition to be in since i`m leaving for malay/indo in two days. boooooooooooooooo!!!!
it`s been a hectic week... juggling the Doom climb, naotaro concert, Skirt Day, and moving out...i feel exhausted. and i still have presents to buy.
but firstly, blog time!
Julia and I took the shinkansen out to yamanashi on friday night, which had its heart stopping moment when we realized we had gotten on the wrong train at shin-osaka. luckily julia knew how to read the utterly confusing timetable and after a transfer at nagoya, we coasted into shin-fuji station safe and sound, right into the waiting arms of... NO ONE.
LinWay hadn`t received my message informing them of our ETA so were still at home when we arrived. our phones hate each other i think, cuz for like 3 months we couldn`t send each other texts, and even after the "technicality" got figured out, there were still glitches. anyways, after we made peace between our finicky keitais, we got picked up an hour later. in the interim, julia managed to quash a 9-year abstinence from McDs due to unrelenting hunger, and we spotted an Asian native english speaker in a Lawsons, because he pronounced "peanuts" perfectly =) While exiting Lawsons, i overheard some girl complain to her friends that tomorrow`s forecast called for rain. RAIN??? but we were climbing tomorrow... it couldn`t rain...could it?
While driving to Fujiyoshida, the windows were promptly rolled down and currents of fresh fresh mountain air filled the car. at first i was hesitant to breathe deeply, conditioned by 11 months of breathing Osaka air... but then i remembered where i was.
so that`s what fresh air feels like...
LinWay`s place is so awesome (and cute!). They have a beautiful balcony (well beautiful meaning pigeon-free) which offers a spectacular view of mt.doom i mean FUJI, FUJI! they have one of the best stocked-pantries in Japan, filled with tons of hisashiburi items. We stayed up kind of late, mostly cuz Julia was reintroduced to a former addiction to Bubble Bobble, and I had overdosed on the good mountain air.
The next morning, while Julia slept, LinWay and I 100-yened, and i got to try their town`s famous udon, which was totally worth the wait. afterwards we went on a hunt for omiyage, and came across a peach stand. after trying a sample, we each bought a box. Japanese peaches are amazing... they aren`t the hard and sour ones you sometimes get in Ontario... they are big, sweet and juicy and their flesh has really cool speckled patterns. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! why did i give u guys my peaches???????????????????? ;) then we went to yama...ko (?) and linda and i slept in the car (only after appreciating the lakeside view of course) and wayne scoured the nearby 7-11 for more toys. oy!
it was only a few more hours till the Doom er, FUJI climb and i wasn`t too anxious. i mean, i overworry about tons of things and they usually turn out okay... shinpaisugi!
for dinner we went to Atomboy, which is a 100yen kaiten sushi chain. after being in there for about 10 minutes, i was a bit embarrassed about how i boasted about Akindo when LinWay were in Osaka. Atomboy kicks butt... and it was so cool cuz they knew one of the waiters there, since apparently they go there a lot heheh.
then, it was Doom time... er, FUJI time... bring on the inevitable!
oops gotta go
and survived. sort of.
it`s been a week and a day since the descent from mt.doom, er, mt. FUJI and i am still sniffly and eye-irritated. not a good condition to be in since i`m leaving for malay/indo in two days. boooooooooooooooo!!!!
it`s been a hectic week... juggling the Doom climb, naotaro concert, Skirt Day, and moving out...i feel exhausted. and i still have presents to buy.
but firstly, blog time!
Julia and I took the shinkansen out to yamanashi on friday night, which had its heart stopping moment when we realized we had gotten on the wrong train at shin-osaka. luckily julia knew how to read the utterly confusing timetable and after a transfer at nagoya, we coasted into shin-fuji station safe and sound, right into the waiting arms of... NO ONE.
LinWay hadn`t received my message informing them of our ETA so were still at home when we arrived. our phones hate each other i think, cuz for like 3 months we couldn`t send each other texts, and even after the "technicality" got figured out, there were still glitches. anyways, after we made peace between our finicky keitais, we got picked up an hour later. in the interim, julia managed to quash a 9-year abstinence from McDs due to unrelenting hunger, and we spotted an Asian native english speaker in a Lawsons, because he pronounced "peanuts" perfectly =) While exiting Lawsons, i overheard some girl complain to her friends that tomorrow`s forecast called for rain. RAIN??? but we were climbing tomorrow... it couldn`t rain...could it?
While driving to Fujiyoshida, the windows were promptly rolled down and currents of fresh fresh mountain air filled the car. at first i was hesitant to breathe deeply, conditioned by 11 months of breathing Osaka air... but then i remembered where i was.
so that`s what fresh air feels like...
LinWay`s place is so awesome (and cute!). They have a beautiful balcony (well beautiful meaning pigeon-free) which offers a spectacular view of mt.doom i mean FUJI, FUJI! they have one of the best stocked-pantries in Japan, filled with tons of hisashiburi items. We stayed up kind of late, mostly cuz Julia was reintroduced to a former addiction to Bubble Bobble, and I had overdosed on the good mountain air.
The next morning, while Julia slept, LinWay and I 100-yened, and i got to try their town`s famous udon, which was totally worth the wait. afterwards we went on a hunt for omiyage, and came across a peach stand. after trying a sample, we each bought a box. Japanese peaches are amazing... they aren`t the hard and sour ones you sometimes get in Ontario... they are big, sweet and juicy and their flesh has really cool speckled patterns. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! why did i give u guys my peaches???????????????????? ;) then we went to yama...ko (?) and linda and i slept in the car (only after appreciating the lakeside view of course) and wayne scoured the nearby 7-11 for more toys. oy!
it was only a few more hours till the Doom er, FUJI climb and i wasn`t too anxious. i mean, i overworry about tons of things and they usually turn out okay... shinpaisugi!
for dinner we went to Atomboy, which is a 100yen kaiten sushi chain. after being in there for about 10 minutes, i was a bit embarrassed about how i boasted about Akindo when LinWay were in Osaka. Atomboy kicks butt... and it was so cool cuz they knew one of the waiters there, since apparently they go there a lot heheh.
then, it was Doom time... er, FUJI time... bring on the inevitable!
oops gotta go
// posted by naomi @ 9:38 p.m. 
