Thursday, August 18, 2005

Mt. Kuno

It keeps raining every morning making the humidity almost unbearable. Last night JiXiang had trouble sleeping because she was too hot.
Anyway.. lets see….Today is Friday so lets flash back to Wednesday.
On Wednesday I brought Mom to Shizuoka city. Actually, we never entered the city, we spent our money in the station!
There is a very good store full of excellent VERY JAPANESE stuff. Mom was in heaven. But the price is very reasonable and she had a lovely time. I found this amazing set for my Samurai General. It is two different types of carts; one is oxen driven and the other is held by hand. Very pretty and so cheap. I told the cashier, when she told me it was a set, that I was double happy. She laughed.
After we headed to the bus stop and caught a bus to Nihondara and then the cable car to Mt. Kuno. I brought Dad there in January and it was beautiful then, but on Wednesday is was gorgeous! All of the buildings that were under renovation when we went before were now open and freshly lacquered. The sun was shining through the trees and WOW!! I took soooooooo many pictures!!! I will only post a couple. I have to start a Mom holiday file on my pictures page soon.






We were pretty tired after. There are a total of 1,100 steps from the museum to the tomb and I was carrying JiXiang in a carrier.





Then yesterday was a relax-day.I brought Mom on the old train up Ooi River. It is a scenic ride through the country/ mountain side of Japan. TINY villages and people living in the middle of no where.



One of the train stops has no people or houses showing anywhere but there is a huge collection of Raccoons with big balls. Still have not figured out why.



Then at the end, Sendai, we had a small lunch and mom bought some mountain tea.
We then caught the train back and I brought Mom to the overly evil but ohhhh sooo much fun DOLLAR STORE. One full floor of EVERYTHING for a dollar. Mom almost fainted. She kept yelling to me
-Is this only a dollar?
-It’s a dollar store, yes!
-This cant only be a dollar!!!

I try to go to this particular store only two or three times a year because it is wayyyyy toooo much fun. Lets put it this way
I spent 50$
Mom spent 64$
AT A DOLLAR STORE!!!!
But mom was in heaven because she found 3 lovely bras and 3 sports bras. Yes at a dollar store.

It is morning now and we have to discuss what we are going to do today.

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