Just  woke up realizing I was alone in the lobby of the IBM Amagi hotel.. Everyone else has gone to bed.. but I needed to blog.. and hte internet in the room is not very good. I came out here to blog and managed to fall asleep on the couch…

Peaceful day here.. Woke late, met Jim for breakfast then went for a scenic city run through tokyo

Museum of what ?!?!?!

My hotel

around noon we all took the shunkasen to ITO.. anhour and a half.. when last time it took three hours to drive.. it’s nice going 200 mph !

Aro

we got to ito and went and got food at 711.. my second 711 meal since landing here..   then we got on the IBM bus.. the low budget equivalent of the corporate jet .. 🙂

last time I took this trip i got mightily car sick.. so this time I ate… here’s rotten soybeans (nato) .. good for your stomach if you don’t gag eating it 🙂

it was warm and pretty clear when we got to amagi.. here’s the view of Mt. Fuji… look carefully .. it’s sticking out of the clouds..

here, maybe this helps

we discovered a foot massager and have been fighting over it … . here’s Jim in its spell

Dinner witht he client was really fun. they’re lovely folks.. Here’s me trying to explain Vermont.

My freind Sakai san takes good care of me to make sure there’s a fish or vegi option .. the food here is really, really good

After dinner several of us went to the spa.. first you get dressed in this crazy robe,.

then you go down three floors to the spa

then you take off all your clothees and shower while brushing your skin with a pant scrapper like thing.. yow !

then you sit in boiling hot water and talk to other naked strangers.. it’s wierd but its fun and relaxing.. and only then do you go upstairs and drink

even though we were already stuffed, they kept brininging us food.. including 3 kinds of squid !

then you struggle to stay awake through jet lag,, the poor guy next to me fell asleep and everyone took pictures of him.. here’s Nakai-san doing just that !

ok.. I really can’t keep my eyes open another second..

gotta get soem sleep, more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

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