Saturday June 16, the whole crew left to go on our Mid-Project Retreat. After an exhausting week and an intense Discover Friends party, we were excited to have a relaxing weekend. So Saturday we took the train out to Hakone in the gorgeous mountains of Japan. The first day we went on an excursion, taking the crazy cable car up to near the peak,
then taking an AWESOME ropeway thingy...
...from which we could see Mt. Fuji (looking much like Mt. Olympus)
...and the Lake,
then riding a Pirate Ship across the Lake.
Once we got to the town on the other end of the Lake, everyone went for a little hike over to a shrine in the forest next to the water. Christina and Heather and I decided that we'd go on one of these:
Turns out, they're a lot more work than one might expect, but SO fun!
Then we ran into Chad and Maria!
That night we split into guys and girls and relaxed in the onsen (public baths). It was a chill night of just chattin, watchin "Heroes", sleeping... Sunday we packed our little backpacks and went over to Yunessun (The Disneyland of Spas- NO JOKE).
This place was CRAZY! They had little spa playgrounds for kids, caves of hot baths,
water slides with hot water,
crazy baths of water mixed with:
-red wine
-curry
-green tea
-coffee
-flowers
-charcoal
-sake
and one of my favorites, HONEY
There was also a Dead Sea bath that you could float in! :)
But my definite highlight was "Dr. Fish". You go into a room and everyone puts their feet in the water at the same time. Then there are hundreds of little fishies that come up to your feet and start sucking/eating the dead skin off your feet! It tickles so much! It was ridiculous!
It's creepy... everyone wears these matching robes and walks around barefoot. I was thinking, "where's the kool-aid?"
Anyway we ended the weekend with a nice Italian dinner and then went home. You're right... we were kinda spoiled. :) Honestly, though, we needed it pretty bad at that point.
2 comments:
omg gen fish are eating your feet. that is TERRIFYING. and somewhat gross, etc.
oh, also- COME BACK. please. as long as you're back mid/late august, i'll be good
This a comment on a really old post, but I was on the 2010 Tokyo A team. (I am seriously missing kouenji by the way...and Mitaka!)
Yunnesun was awesome, I see not only the STINTers went there but also last year's summer project team.
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