Mt. Shosha xXxtreme adventure

First some news. The grocery store next to me has actually been selling bananas for the last few weeks. Apparently everytime that I go there, usually after 7 pm, they are sold out of bananas. I don’t know why there is some banana craze, but it is odd that they dont have enough to last a whole day.

Also at the McDonalds’ here they have a slightly different menu. While they have all the old favorites they have included something so utterly amazing I had to experience it for myself. Its name is the MegaMac, and it is similar to a BigMac in that it has a third bun in between two layers of meat. The MegaMac continues where the BigMac leaves off and adds an extra patty to each meat layer. Yes, this means there are 4 patties within this beast. While not as big as some of the monsters at Carls Jr. and others it is still an impressive sandwich. And eating was depressing, something I will probably never do again.

The MegaMac, it will eat your children.

Onto the Saturday outing.

I went with co-workers Greg and Stefan, and an office lady Hasegawa-san, who brought two of her friends from Mitsubishi along as well. On the outskirts of Himeji City is Mt. Shosha, reading from the pamphlet I was given, is a “mountain of prayer throughout the ages”. Needless to say there were a mass of temple related structures and monuments. Also part of the Last Samurai was filmed here, and Tom Cruise stayed in a house at the top. Originally the plan was to hike up the mountain, but the ladies were going to take the cable car to the top, so we went with them, not wanting to make them wait at the top.

every one except hasegawa-san after getting off the cable car

i see goatse

the farmers cut images of Himeji castle and some sort of demonic figure into the fields

mountainzzzzzzzzz

outside view of the main shrine, monks were grinding so hard in there

view from the porch

voted best tree on the mountain for 400 years straight

one of the buildings in the area where LS was filmed

another building opposite to the previous

scary centipede, had massive stingers, greg trapped it in his water bottle then released it angrier than before

hasegawa-san and me 4 lyfethere are stairs on the other side, i had to know how they got up there

tom cruise watched tv here

the camera is level, the hill is steep and moss-encrustedstefan loves spiders, this one was huge

leaves, please inform the temperature that it is fall

ring the bell? ding ding.