By Will

Today we went to a small town in the mountins (this blog post will be shorter because we spent so much time eating an enormous dinner that I’m tired and do not have much time to write it). It is called Kinosaki.

We got there and went up in a tram ride to the top of the mountain. There was a strange guy in the tram who seemed to have been doing some drinking. He said: “Some of you speak Japanese and some of you don’t, Ha ha!” and to Mom,  “You have a good accent for radio, not for TV, Ho ho.” We got to the top to see a beautiful view of the Sea of Japan, which I’ve never seen before.

 We came down from there and went to see some sights in town and hit some gift shops. After that we went back to hotel and relaxed for a while before putting on our yukatas and going out. We were in these like… uh… elavated wooden shoe thingys (geta) that were just about as easy to ice skate in as to walk. We went to dinner at the ryokan we had sooo much food. We had: crab,pickles,rice,beef,vegtables,tofu,soup and whatever that was. Our server, a really nice woman named Keiko-san, brought us endless amounts of food. We were ABSOLUTELY STUFFED when ice cream finally came for me.We went back to the room and went to bed.  

(Mother’s note: Will used a lot of his Japanese today and charmed Keiko-san and many others that he met along the way.)

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