Appi

 Ok seriously I've spend at least 10 minutes trying to get these pictures to line up nicely and I'm just going to try to direct you to the correct pictures.  The one on the left here is us before just starting our journey.  The pictures above are the from the mountain obviously.  The pics around are of the various sights.  Nothing really Facebook-worthy, but definitely memory-worthy.

 This is a very common snack here.  Fish in a bag.  Below is Kengo saying "Why is this stupid foreigner making a big deal out of eating a fish?  This is the most normal thing you can possibly eat."  After giving them a shot, they were a little salty for my tastes, but not too bad.  But there's something about eating bones that I just can't seem to enjoy very much.

Kengo is the worlds heaviest sleeper.  He fell asleep in the position for the entire two hour ride home, and even after we got back and Syogo climbed over him and his dad hit him several times to try to wake him up before I finally picked him up and carried him out of the camper.  Only when I put him down on the driveway did he wake up.

 Super good korean yaki-niku place on those top two pictures.  Breakfast was more natto and raw egg (my favorite) and the vending machine is the required beer vending machine on every floor of the hotel.  Beer vending machines are Japanese versions of ice machines in the States.

A pretty big earthquake struck as we were waiting for the gondola and it stopped for about 20 minutes.

Ran into some nicely dressed snowboarders and ended the night with a nice slice of macha cake.


Sorry this blog entry is not chronological, but this is my form of protesting the impossible image-organizing features on Blogger.