Thursday, November 6, 2008, 19:00
Published on November 6, 2008 by: callie
so how psyched are we about our new president? hell yeah! of course i would have loved for cynthia mckinney to have gotten more votes and for people to stop controlling the legality of other people’s marriages with ballots, but i am choosing to be content with what i consider to be a major major victory for us all–the 44th president of the united states, mr. barrack obama! woo! i can hardly believe it.
so i want to finish telling you about june. josh and i went to the izu peninsula with a tour group called the tokyo gaijins (clever name, huh). luckily i got a new raincoat just before the trip, because this is what our hike to see the seven waterfalls (eight, if you count the rain) looked like:
after this hike we went to an outdoor onsen, soaking in the hot water at the base of a waterfall in the freezing rain….until we got kicked out by a worker because of the dangerous rising waters. i hear the waters are beautiful and sparkling turquoise on a sunny day. however, we saw mostly gray, gray, and more gray. but isn’t my rain jacket cute? 
on another positive note, some of the onsen (hot springs) were in caves, so we had some nice sheltered soaks, positioning ourselves just so to avoid the occasionally leaky roofs. i would love to go back to this place, but i fear we won’t have time before we leave. so i guess i’ll just have to be content with the images from the postcards i bought while we were there since my own photos just look like a mass of blurred rainyness.