Awaiji Island....I have great spelling....?

Stars shinning bright above you, night breezes whisper I love you…. Ha I had a dream that my family came to visit me in Japan last night in the hotel. They all ended up getting mad at me for some reason though and I was upset that they came to bash me. Apprehensive about company maybe or getting to comfortable with the Kubota family it’s hard to say. Really thought I am joking. This weekend or rather Friday around 11:30am until Saturday around 3:30pm I was with Yuki and Akio on the Island Awiji (I’m not sure if that’s the correct spelling or not). Oh and Yuki and Akio want me to call them Otosan and Okasan which is a formal way that you ask someone “how is your mother” you would say ‘Okasan and not Haha because haha you only use if its your mother). Anyways they want me to because it seems more comfortable and such and all the other exchange people they have helped out called them that. I don’t feel comfortable saying that because well my parents will only ever be the only parents I have and I don’t like the thought of imitation ones. I mean I do the same thing with my Grandfathers second Wife. Jade call’s her Grandma but I just call her by her name. I mean she is definitely that type of figure in my life but it feels wrong for me to call her that. Does any body understand what I mean? Ahh anyway back to my type adventure. Friday night we did not do too much me and Yuki went for a short walk into the resort’s golf course…although we like snuck through an opening in a gate by a bush/tree line. So we were being sneaky there will be some photos up on facebook soon of the trip. It was a good laugh the walk. Then that night Akio had a meeting and Yuki and I ate in a tiny little dingy restaurant but the cook was really nice and talkative so what can I say, too he had a friend who was vegan and completely understood my diet. Then later that night we picked her husband back up and we chilled in the hotel room until 11:30ish having some wine and junk food. We went to sleep then…took me a while to fall asleep though like normal. It was different since the room was actually warm I was too hot-ish rather then being to cold and trying to fall asleep.


The next morning we woke up at 6am so to sneak me into the bath house. I have to sneak in because Tattoos are a huge no no due to the fact that is highly associated with the Ikuzi (or something like that) gangsters. She discreetly gave us two definitely not big enough bandages for my “fashion tattoo”. Luckily the night before I bought a case of large band aids to cover my tattoo and we had two of the other band aids that the receptionist gave us the night before when we were inquiring. Unfortunately this was not enough to cover up all my tattoos. We were also told that if the two band-aids that she gave me did not cover up my tattoo (all the tattoos) I would not be aloud in. So we went up and I started changing and luckily, even though most of my dragon was covered in band aids I had a towel hung over my shoulder, she came in to check where my tattoo was! And she helped me place the band aid on my Hess tattoo…which hid it perfectly. So she was none the wiser and content. Or so I thought, about half an hour later when Yuki and I were chilling in the dry Sauna she peered in threw the door and like waved to us, another check up. Again though I was covering my left side with a towel flung over. I did not expect them to be so intense about it…I’m thinking it’s not worth all the effort. It was fun though me and Yuki being kind of dorky bad asses and breaking the resorts rules. Too this was the nicest resort I have ever been to. I was on top of one of the hill/mountains and had a beautiful view of the straight.


After we finished up with the bath house we packed all our things up and left. We dropped Akio off for his meetings and then Yuki and I went to view some WHIRL POOLS! So cool! Although we were not on a good day for when the tide changing into the Pacific Ocean from the straight makes really big ones but we saw a bunch of little ones. It was really crazy and weird you could also see that the water level was higher in the straight then the pacific so there was a little bit of a shelf...of water…so weird and cool! I have about a million (probably unrecognizable) photos of them. After that we went to an art museum, which was really neat but not the art pieces were not the originals but many many famous ones from different periods around the world. So that was fun to look at and see how big they really were. All of the reproductions were done on ceramic plates (not plates but like flat slabs and such ness). We wondered around there until about 12 when we had to go pick up Akio. It was a really beautiful trip once we were out of Osaka, and then out of Kobe and onto the more rural forested island. Definitely never want to live in the city when I’m older. Oh and on the way back Yuki took me to the largest tomb in the world for one of the 5th century Emperors of Japan; although the land is owned by the countries royalty so ‘normal’ people are not aloud to wonder around on the grounds. It’s surrounded by one moat and some land and then another moat. The inner most land has not been touched so there is a 1500 year old forest sitting on it. The forest must have some pretty amazing trees in it. Here is a little photo of it I quickly found on the net.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/7/74/180px-NintokuTomb.jpg (copy and paste if it does not work)
There is a little tan slit among all of the green near the bottom middle (before the city) area of the photo and you can walk half way up that sandy patch before you get to a gate and the first moat, to see a little sliver of the forest. The trees looked like fluffy broccoli.
Yea and so now I am home and really tired but that’s a summery of how my day started so I am sleepy and my room is disgustingly messy. I hope nobody randomly shows up…hopefully tomorrow I will clean it. Anyways I love you guys and miss you all!