So I climbed Mt. Bizan today with a couple of my friends instead of taking the ropeway up like I did last time. It was fun and since we stopped a ton of times (man we are woses) it wasn't that strenuous. The part I hated about it was the fact that Japanese misquitoes apparently LOVE me. I got about 15 new bites just from the hike up...while my friends maybe got 2. GRRRR....lesson learned...don't go anywhere in Japan without misquito repellent. I really should have learned this lesson before now, as every morning I wake up with at least one new bite. My solution had been to try and find/kill all the ones in my apartment before falling asleep. I must always miss one or they have a secret entrance into my room.
After we got to the top we wandered the viewing platform and found a couple of benches. My new friend Hal met last night at Ingrids brought a few beers with him and we drank them as celebration of making it to the top. It's apparently his tradition for when he gets to the top of a moutain. I'm good with that tradition as I had told him the night before I don't like beer and he produced a smirnoff for me...sweet! Hanging out at the top was beautiful and the weather was perfect. This morning had been extremely humid and muggy, but at that time the impending drizzle had put enough water on the ground to make it perfect outside. After being at the top for perhaps 2 or 3 hours Hal and Jessica started talking about walking back down....after nearly scratching my legs off I decided that was a bad idea for me and bailed on them and took the ropeway down (I STILL managed to get one more bite). So now I'm sitting in my apartment practically covered in toothpaste attempting to stop the itching. I forsee a treck to the store for anti-itch cream in my near future. Jessica just called apparently she's only now getting to the station (some 2.5 hours after I split from them) and asked if I wanted to go out for sushi once she gets back....sounds like fun..I'll let you know how that turns out!
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