Naked Michigan

So the title might be misleading, but basically those are the best words to describe my weekend. Since I am extremely lazy right now, and am seriously writing this post just because it is on my list of things to do (is that sad? yea, you're right), this is going to be a really short blog. oh and by the way traveling alone is the way to go. Its not that I hate people...ok, it is. A summary:
leave nagoya. arrive in hikone. walk down main street. enter awesome jazz cafe. eat curry pizza (yes. really. and it rocked). speak broken japanese. find out there is nothing to do at night in the town. oh well. find random hotel to spend night. walk to beach. walk along beach. realize i've been walking a long time when i hit next town over. turn around. come upon university (japanese university of michigan studies...or something like that). enter. meet crap-loads of americans. get asked to stay for barbeque. chat. eat various cooked meats. play cock-rock (don't ask...or maybe you should...hint hint). leave well after dark. walk back to town along scary path. buy ice cream. eat ice cream. wish i would have bought a different kind of ice cream...errr cough. yea. arrive at hotel. go to room. spend 5 minutes trying to figure out how to turn lights on in room. sleep. wake up early. check out. walk around still asleep town. realize i dont have money and atms don't open for another 2 hours. walk around. walk. walk. admire some swans and an artist drawing. pick up a quality convini-breakfast. go to atm. get money. tour castle. eat elderly couple's lunch (they insisted, i swear). walk across train tracks to try to find sento (public bath). eat mcdonalds. feel funny being american and eating mcdonalds. realize its ok when i look at the portions. find sento (meaning realizing it is right behind the mcdonalds...after i asked). enter sento. get naked. enter baths. feel the need to giggle because everyone is naked slowly fade after 2 minutes. leave baths feeling extremely relaxed and happy. leave hikone. arrive back at nagoya.

so that wasnt a short post, but yea. The highlights of the weekend were hanging with really fun Michigan-ers and exposing my naked body to the world (or at least 10 random Japanese women...good enough). yay! thats it.