I wore a big robe

SOOOO... two days ago was not really all that exciting... just went to a couple cities that i can not pronounce the names of, shopped around a little bit. Found out an important fact... i am in fact too large for this country. Everything they have is just too small for me... if you are larger than an average size American... you are screwed. But I am not all that worried. The more exciting day was yesterday. First we took this awesome monorail to another city i can not pronounce. When we got there we went to this amazing Toyota show room. It had a bunch of Lexus and Toyota cars obviously... but it had past cars, present cars, and prototype future cars. I saw my dream car there, the Lexus LFA (pictured above). So that was a nice little treat to have. After the Toyota show room thing we went to an Onsen... which is a big bath house. You go into this big temple thing and take off your shoes and they give you this big robe thing which you change into. Once in your big robe, you go into basically a mini city within this temple building. There are shops, restaurants, and massage parlors. It was awesome. Mari and I got a massage, I did a doctor fish bath, which is when you put your feet into water with a bunch of fish in it and the fish eat the dead skin off of your feet... it was a really cool feeling but still kind of weird. Then we went into the bath rooms. You go into this huge room completely naked, sit on this little stool and bathe yourself with soap and all. then you wander around and sit in different mineral baths that are different temperatures and what not. It was so relaxing. I sat in the sauna and sweated for a little bit, went in the outdoor baths and finished with my favorite bath in the place... the cold water bath which was about 18 degrees Celsius. After our baths we had dinner at one of the restaurants within the onsen. And i will tell you what... the concept of a mixed drink is lost on these people, but no worries, we worked through it. By the time we left the onsen it was 10:30 and time to head home. I was so relaxed though. If you ever have a chance to go to an onsen in Japan i highly recommend you get over your fear of nudity and go to one. It is so relaxing and and quite an experience.

oh and feel free to post comments with questions or anything, i will gladly answer