Space Children Gathering

MMMMM Golden Week
Delicious vacation time

For my tasty Golden Week vacation I went with my friends off to Aso Mountain where we ate curry and listened to music and slept uncomfortably in small tents. All good though! Uncomfortable sleeping conditions ain't so bad when your home pillow is actually made of plastic beads. Mmmm, delicious plastics.

The trip down to Mt. Aso was kinda long, but it was filled with goodies. I started off in the morning from my buddy Dave's apartment. We got picked up by one of our friends with a car, and headed off to Shimabara to meet up with all the other people we were going with.

We took the ferry from Shimabara to Kumamoto-ken, where Aso is at. The ferry was tops. Since it was such a beautiful day, I went up onto the roof of the boat with a couple of other friends and we soaked in the sun and imitated Titanic poses until it was time to get back down into the cars.

From there, the drive was kind of confusing. None of us were really entirely sure as to where the campsite was on the mountain, or how we were supposed to get there. Luckily, we already had some friends up on the mountain who happened to be coming back down to grab some stuff from a convenience store who showed us the way up to the place.

Driving in, we went through some really beautiful scenes and passed a bunch of cows spray-painted with numbers. They were both pretty rad.

There were tons of Japanese hippies up on the mountain, along with quite a few foreigners who made a pretty long trip for the festival. Oh yes, we didn't just go to the mountain on our own accord, I am not so nature-friendly. There's a bi-annual music festival that goes on up on Mt. Aso which is filled with Japanese hippies and graying construction workers who paint in their free time. Well, okay, just one graying construction worker who paints in his free time, but he was a good dude.

Actually, this post is kind of dumb. I have nothing to say.
We made a campfire, that was fun
some crazy japanese dude came over and sprayed sake all over himself
lots of dudes had teepees and I was jealous
Some guy put paints out in front of his car and let people paint it up
tons of delish curry
I saw a full-circle rainbow
lots of dogs (I want a dog)
Also a turtle (not so much)


ANYWAY
I get to miss more school this week too because I am heading off to Kyoto and Tokyo. Should be killer.