blushing cheeks

argh headache...

I went to a strawberry plantation today! I met up with Ayako today, and she suggested to go and visit her friend, who owns a strawberry plantation. You can go there, and pay a little bit of money and then eat as many strawberries as you want for half an hour. It...was.......awesome...We got there..and seriously the area was beautiful itself. The sun was shining, it was warm, mt fuji was visible, and everything was incredibly peaceful. It's a really nice area. Ayako's friend was cool, he did a bit of explaining to us about the strawberries. I learnt that the best way to eat them is from top (with the green bit pulled off of course) to bottom. Because the bottom is the sweetest part, and the top the most sour. Hmmmmm what else? apparently in Japan there are lots of different types of strawberries. japanese people like em so mcuh, that they do a heck of a lot of genetic manipulation to create different types of strawberries. The type that we ate was the pretty standard one, and it has the name of "blushing cheek" translated from japanese......awwwwwwww Also he had a special breed of bees live in the green house so that they can fertilise the strawberry plants. I didn't realise that that's how it was done!

The guy was so cool. Afterwards he gave us 4 packs of strawberries and home made jam! Sucess!!!! It was a pretty cool girly day really. I won't bore you with the details of that one.
We also went around some of the other areas that are apparently famous there. We went to an old place which made bombs to fight other countries. it looked quite interesting. What was more cool was the garden that was there. There was a waterfall and a stream that flowed throughout the entire garden. It was so beautiful.