A mini trip to Kamakura and Enoshima

Today, the plan was to wake up late, since we slept late last night. YSki went to bed around 2:30am, but I stayed up till around 3am to type the last entry. I also woke up around 8am this morning, which doesn’t give me a lot of sleep. I mean it’s enough, but I wanted to be ready to leave whenever YSki woke up and finished getting ready.

We walked to Ofuna station to catch the Yokosuka line to Kamakura station. I saw someone on the bus that I knew too. It was weird because I don’t know the person personally, but I had dinner with her one time on New Years. She is my host family’s friend and they play mahjongg and drink and smoke all at the same time. But anyways, I saw her on the bus, while we were walking in the heat of the sun, burning and boiling at the same time. We got to the station really quick since it was only like 3 stations away and we took a faster express train like train.

When we got to the station, we walked a little bit to the beach, and found out that we weren’t going the exact right way. We had to stop and ask directions on how to get there since we pretty much just followed the signs and the map that was near the station, but I guess we missed a turn somewhere or something. After asking a police in the koban, we quickly found our way. It was a tad hot so on the way, we stopped to get some ice cream. I bought Hokkaido vanilla soft serve ice cream and it was damn good. The part I didn’t like though was the dripping. It was so hot that within the minute of us buying our ice cream, it started to melt and drip. That was very annoying. The store was just outside of the Big Buddha, so we didn’t have to go far after that and just walked there to the big Buddha that is there in its special park. Then we sat down there and talked for a little bit on a bench behind the Buddha.

Then we started walking back to Hase station on the Enoshima line. Before we went into the station though, we stopped at a 100 yen store so she could get new sandals because her sandals were already falling apart, so she needed a quick substitute or she’ll go around with no shoes. The train line seems very old, but it’s a nice traditional rail line that doesn’t seem like its being used a lot since there were only two cars. It has a very antique feel to it and not very modern, but not like steam engine old either. I guess we didn’t stay in Kamakura very long, but there aren’t really that many things for us to do there.

We stopped off at Enoshima station and then walked to the island. It was really cool and we got a wonderful view of the city from there. We went quite high and I was able to get some awesome pictures. We did a hell of a lot of walking today. I was getting a bit fatigued too.

We were able talk more about yesterday’s topic too. Not that it was overly exciting, but I was worked up about it because I don’t like liars. So the foundation of friendship was broken, and well if that happens, then I guess there’s nothing else is there? So we were just talking a lot about what went on while I was in Japan and gone away from all the drama. It was seriously like a TV drama that you watch week in and week out because there are so many twists and turns and most of it never makes sense and you’d think that would be impossible. But nothing is impossible right? So we talked a lot about it, and it was getting tiring because that’s all that we have seemed to be talking about as of late.

We came home after getting dinner. We were hungry from walking all day and plus we saw a bunch of great restaurants on the island. They all looked delicious and I was getting to the point where I was starving because they looked so good. It was the first time that I took the monorail in Japan too so that was exciting coming back. It was from a station near Enoshima Island, not sure what the name was or even how to get there, but somehow we got there. It was pretty cool and much busier than I originally thought since it was out in the boon docks, but I guess a lot of people use it to get to work and commute. We got back to Ofuna station and decided to get dinner around there. We walked around for a little bit so we could get more choices for dinner that night.

We decided on getting Shabu Shabu at a restaurant near the station. It was for a reasonable priced place right in front of the monorail station. I was a bit surprised at how that place works. We ordered a meal for about 2 hour service. Since I’ve only gone to shabu shabu with my school I never knew how to order, just eat. So today, we ordered a meal that gave us a couple of choices of meat and vegetables that we could use for the hot pot and make ourselves. At first I thought it was small and kinda pricey. But then the amazing thing happened, we could order more meat. It was part of the package, so you could eat all the meat you wanted within 2 hours. So it was a good price for two people since we could eat a lot of meat and vegetables.

I took a shower after YSki did, so I was on the computer updating my xanga entries. But when I went into the shower, she changed to use the computer for whatever she was doing and started on a website that had a lot of jokes on them. So we spent the next few hours reading up on the jokes that she found. We got tired very late at night and that’s when we went to sleep.