So much comment these days and having no medicine but manual moderation, I go through the emails and delete delete delete as they come. Most of the time it is the same posted that get spammed over and over again. Why were those posts chosen? Thought the other day I took a second glance at what I thought was spam:
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and then
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possibly a small child or a dog or better yet - a rabbit!?
A mystery to solve…but instead…I went to Hakone last weekend! Yes, the trip deserves an exclamation mark (!)
Sunday morning 4 girls from work and I met up at Yokohama station and took the hour and some train ride to Hakone, a somewhat touristy (but not horribly so) mountain town in the Kanagawa prefecture. Definitely a scenic place but unfortunately I have no pictures to express that : ( You’ll just have to trust me.
Our first activity was to go to the Craft House and get crafty. We chose to blow some glass. The setup there was ideal for getting the inexperienced in, safe, and out with a smile on their face. Before starting, we were shown shapes, colours, and patterns to select for our creations. Then it was a one-on-one experience in the glassblowing studio. The experts guided us along step-by-step, letting us touch enough things so that in the end, we could take our products home and say “look ma, look what I made!” Actually, it was a really good experience. I am surprised that I had the opportunity because when glassblowing…you’re dealing with some hot stuff there! Very sensitive too. We got to blow the glass (of course) and on my first try I, thinking that you needed to blow really hard, blew too hard and my glass bubble(?) popped. Fun : )
To conclude that part, here is what I made:
After the glassblowing, we attempted to go to a hot springs area at the top of a ropeway in order to find and eat kurotamago (black tamago…black egg….onsen egg…egg boiled in hot spring) but the ropeway was closed : ( So we headed back to the ryokan for a huuuuuge and yummy meal (I think it was the largest # of items meal that I have had here so far), followed by board games and then onsen. We had reserved a private outdoor onsen room. It was cold outside and a little hard to muster up the genkiness needed to handle the cold outside before getting into the warm bath, but the chill was worth it.
Monday morning, smooth from soaking in bath, we headed straight to work from Hakone.
