Volcanoes, Black Eggs and Kitties.

DISCLAIMER:
THE FOLLOWING STORY IS BASED ON FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PEOPLE OR PLACES ARE PURELY UNINTENTINAL AND RANDOM.

SO. I promised an update when something exciting would happen. Well, it's happened, and I, your friend the Blog, am here to tell you what's been going on.

IT ALL started a few days ago. I was looking around the internet for jobs, and a website I use for this particular thing, is called Craigslist, which some of you may or may not or might perhaps know about.

After unsucesfully finding anything to apply for, I went to the "community" section of the site, which is where people go to write stuff like "hey, come to my concert" or "I'm new to tokyo, and I'm looking for people to show me around" or "lets meet for a cup of coffe and discuss the average circumferene of tropical plants".

Well, I found one of these things that said something like "I won 2 tickets for a 1day tour to Mt. Fuji, and since all my friends are working that week, I am looking for someone to go with".

Well, I took my chance and wrote her, and because I'm superawesome and very nice, apparently, she decided to reply to me and not the others who wrote her. So we met the other day, and met for coffee, and had a good day, and then today we met early this morning, sunny shiny beautiful day, and got in a bus of ADVENTURE and EXCITEMENT. And a tourguide who had the worlds most Japanese Engrish accent :D

Rose

The tour took us first off to Mt. Fuji. Very nice volcano, and we went as far up the cliffside as the bus could take us, and we got out (snow?! EVERYWHERE!?), and flinched at the sun as it burned our collective retinas. Well, except for the ones with sunglasses. After having spent some time looking at the impressive and snowcovered volcano, we got back in Das Bus and drove to a nice restaurant where we had delicious lunch (to me and Rose the lunch was included in the price she had won. Didn't pay a dime for anything that happened all day! Other tourist had to pay about 15000 yen for the whole shenanigan! Lucky me ^^)

Going to Mt. Fuji


As close to the top you can get this season. It's climbable in the summertime!

According to the tourguide, a few years ago a wild Beer had been spotted roaming the surrounding forest. Hilariousness.

After the lunch had been violently consumed (i was a hungry beast, with no breakfast in my system), and a small snowballfight (we threw like, 1 snowball each, and then got tired of that), we got back in Die Busse and went to a gondola, which purpose was to take us to the top of a mountain, with an AMAZING view. We could see Mt. Fuji quite clearly from the top, as well as the pacific ocean!!! Also, this particular mountain had a lot of natural hot springs, and the whole mountainside was steaming because it was so hot. This place was very famous for boiling eggs in this bubbly hot natural water. The eggs will turn all BLACK, because of all the sulphuric acids in the water, which apparently reacts with egg-molecules to create the colour black. You should ask someone who knows Science how this works.
The whole place stank of suplhur, but it was really cool to see! I have uploaded a youtube video that shows us going with the gondoliona up the mountain. Quite a spectacular sight.

View from the top. Fuji-Yama to the right. Duh.


A lonely Gondola.

Smokey rocks. And smelly. This picture doesn't smell though.

Also, a Cat on a scooter.

Next stop was a, according to the guide, very famous Rake, on which we would sail a pirateship, which was harbored at a famous Rake Hotel.

We went, we got aboard the pirate ship, we committed mutiny, took control of the ship, and are currently roaming the 7 seas, raping and plundering anything we see, under command of Captain Weakbeard the Dane. Good thing this ship's got wireless here in my Captains Quarters.

Truthfully though, we just sailed around for 20 minutes in the cold wind and blinding sun. See, this is why I don't like winter. Sure, the sun is out, but is it WARM?... NO!! IT'S BLOODY COLD AND ANNOYING!

A piiiiiirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the seaaa

We went ashore and got back to the bus, and then I fell asleep. Woke up again when we were back in Tokyo. And it had been a GREAT day!

Since it wasnt that late, me and Rose (who, by the way is a bellydancer from Jamaica... raaarw) decided to go to a Cat Café. For those of you thinking "hahaha, that sounds like a café that's being run by cats!" I can only say: Don't be silly. There is no such thing as cats that run cafés, not even in Japan. Quite frankly, its a ridicolous and stupid idea. I wish you wouldn't have thought that.

For everyone else, I will say this: It's a cafe that's being run by people, who really really really love cats. So much in fact, that they save money on furniture, except for a few tables and sofas, so that they can buy TRUCKloads of cats, and cat toys and cat-furniture, who will then run around (only the cats, not the toys and furniture) and be all cat-like while you sit and try to drink your coffee. It's hilarious. And the cats are cute. ALL cats are cute. I really needed some feline company, and I will definately go to another Cat Café one day. Apparently there are a LOT of them around.

Sinkmaster, Guardian of Sinks.

Snoutface the Ugly

And their sidekick, Leopardcat the Mischieveous

And then I said my goodbyes to Rose, who is going home in 4 days. And then I went back to Uguisudani and had Ramen, delicious, and now I'm writing this blog whilst listening to Wax Tailor.

'ts been a good day.


and here is my youtube, with the latest videos of Japan and all its deliciousness.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Durontia


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