Kyou wa Toshoukan de Ikimasu

hey. yes. hello... so tazawako, yes. all i've come up with so far is "uh, i went to the lake and i saw the lake..." and such. there's no suitable way to describe these things. despite that, here's my best-ish effort:

we (about 12 folks, 4 nihonjin, the rest gaijin) left really damn early on sunday morning on a bus to the mall, from whence the longer bus trip departed. it took about two hours to get to tazawako station, where another bus took us to the lake. we got out at a touristy strip of stores and restaurants, ate some rice on a stick (very popular street vendor food, can't remember the name of it) and took a boat tour of the lake, floating up to a shrine and the famous statue of a princess who, according to the story, lives in the lake in the form of a dragon. the water in the lake is bright blue and very clear. we could see massive schools of fish on the shore who swarmed around and leapt at the little pellets of food we threw at them. after the boat tour, we took another bus around to the opposite side of the lake, where the statue and another small shrine were. putzed around walking along the shoreline and up a big bluff behind the shrine. it got dark, everyone was exhausted and jittery because the planning for the trip was a little complicated, so we were mostly silent on bus trip #712 back to tazawako station and the two trains back to wada station and yet another bus back to school. the pictures explain the whole thing a little better.

since the trip... not a whole lot of activity of the bloggable variety. hina has pneumonia. she went back to sendai so her folks could take care of her, and before she left i brought her some cocoa and mickey mouse chocolate biscuit things. she had a fever of 104. sick. anything else...? uh, nope. might go out to an all you can eat place this weekend. dutdutdutdut...ok, pictures then.