Takao-san

Another field trip day! This time our class plan was cooked up by Aya, one of our wonderful hosts from the KAIT International Club. We are heading to Mount Takao, the local large hill (for you Seattle folk, no it didn't have snow on it). So we all piled on board the Bling Bus...

Yeah, this is what all the lights looked like.

We had a nice drive through the country.

We stopped at a kids center partway there and had our lunches. We also got to play on their awesome playground.

Candiece introducing the birds and butterflies.

Climbing equipment.

The awesome playground.

We finished eating/playing and loaded back onto the bus. And as we did I suddenly discovered why the trip was taking so long...

Yup.

Well we finally got there in spite of bus. And while we were waiting in the lobby for the cable car to take us up the mountain, I spotted a curious machine...

Hello Kitty popcorn machine.

As we reached the top and got out of the cable car, there was another school field trip on their way down! They were apparently quite happy to see us.

Peace!

My goal on the trip was to gather some landscape pictures for an assignment. Here are a few I came up with.

Different colored trees.

Blade of grass.

We payed about 400yen to get into the monkey park, where we found (surprise...) monkeys.

One of them iz in mah bucket.

Meanwhile, another monkey is climbing.

Found some butterflies.

Then we ran back to the cable car and headed down. Exciting day.