After surviving a rather quiet day of work, minus my brief encounter with the Hip Hop Dance club at school, I decided the best thing to do would be to go home and relax since the Nagano ken meeting took so much outta me. My hostfamily mom called me, however, and before I knew it, I’d been picked up at school and taken back to my apartment to fetch my swimsuit for a swimming/onsen excursion with grandma, grandpa and Takako-chan. The pool, only being about 4 foot deep, was perfect for older people to excersize in, as well as provide a place for children to practice swimming, and the onsen attached to the place wasn’t bad either. Following that, we met up with the rest of the family and Cooper-san for yakiniku at a nice restaurant, and after a little persuasion, Coop and I convinced the moms to take us and the kids out for karaoke. Unlike the place we’d usually go to, this karaoke place was really bright, located on a busy street somewhere around the Motozenkoji area of Iida. It even had a parking assistant with a big red wand – completely unnecessary for such a business. Despite the younger kids choice of elementary-aged sing alongs, it was fun… until we realized the total cost of karaoke at the nicer place my host family selected was about $100. At the joint my friends like to hang out at, it’d cost about a 5th of what this place costs, and we would have gotten a lot better service in a more personal atmosphere. Oh well, you don’t know until you go.
Anyway, next is Himeji.
