I went to a BBQ at Zushi beach, which was really interesting. People travel from all over to come to the beach and they bring canopies, grills, four-wheelers, chairs, and all kinds of stuff. It's quite an ordeal, but it's a great way to spend a Saturday! The beach was packed, but I managed to take the photo below. There were tons of windsurfers and people on wave runners. They didn't even seem to look out for the swimmers. It's interesting that the swimmers don't mind the jelly fish, which according to the locals come and hang out all summer long. If you're lucky, you only get minor stings which itch for awhile. I didn't hang out in the water or even on the sand, because it was so hot that it burnt my feet even when I was wearing sandals! I spent my time under the tent eating delicious jalepeno burgers, stuffed habenero peppers, and drinking beer. What a wonderful day!
I got invited to go to Mt. Takao Beer Garden, which took about 2 and a half hours to drive to. It's funny, because if you are a passenger in a car, you can drink as long as the driver is sober...and I do mean sober. Just one drink and a person can get in trouble for drinking while driving indicated and the punishment is 3-5 years of hard labor and fines up to $15,000. No thank you! The beer garden is accessible by ski lift, cog train, or hiking. We chose the train this time, but I definitely want to hike it sometime soon!
We enjoyed the beautiful sunset and moon rise while waiting to see if we could get in. For about $30 you can eat and drink all you want for 2 hours. What is better than that?
Here we are waiting to get lucky and be allowed to enter the beer garden. We had to wait just to see if there was room for us. We made friends with the people who took this picture for us and they gave us their tickets...which was good for us since they didn't allow anyone without tickets into the beer garden. Over a thousand people were waiting with tickets and there were many more without tickets (like us) who were just hoping to get lucky.
This is the entrance to the beer garden...we had to wait like 2 hours before going up like 100 stairs to the actual beer garden and food. Thank goodness our new friends gave us their tickets!
These are the great views of Tokyo as seen from the top...I can't wait to see it during the daytime! We were actually on top of the mountain looking out across Japan.
Friends having fun...
This is Karin, Tiffany, Yuki, and me.
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