F7S ~Nikko to Hakone~ A day of travelling

I haven't written all day. It's 5.45pm now.
I woke up at about 7am. I had a nice sleep, although when the typhoon was at it's strongest, I did half wake up. I was deciding "Should I wake up and see if I need to pack? Or should I sleep". I chose the latter lol. After breakfast, I went on the net for the first time in Japan (from the old man's laptop). He's quite technological and intelligent, but talks a lot. I wrote to mom and Mary G from work =p Soon we had to leave Nikko =( I'll miss my awesome room. The one I'm in now, at Hakone, isn't as cute.

The trip to here took endless hours. We went on a local train, a Shinkansen, a local train again, then a very long bus trip into the mountains. I'm guessing it took 7 hours o_o Partly this is thanx to the typhoon. Actually the effects of the typhoon are not as bad as I thought here. But it did affect us, since the road to Hakone was closed! So we had to detour and we lost a lot of our day that way. Now we are sitting here in the evening, doing nothing *sigh* One strange thing we saw was at the train station. There was a sign saying 'Exit (for party)' lol! And we saw a guy on the street with 'perv' written on his shirt XD And I saw many dogs today. One owner even had 3.

10pm. We did nothing today except travel and go out for dinner. I didn't even take photos today. After dinner, everyone wanted to go to a karaoke bar. We had a look at one, but it was all empty! I came back to the ryokan and it's all quiet here. Like a ghost town. The others stayed at the empty karaoke. I could *learn origami *go in the onsen *watch japanese tv *go on the net *find everyone *sort my belongings. By the way, this ryokan is like a family home. So small and a mix of Western and Japanese. We don't have our own bathrooms T.T Oh well I'll survive.

11.30pm. Tonight turned out ok. In my time alone, I sorted my things, checked my email, and looked through the maps and tourist guides of Hakone. It's not very exciting here. I'll just follow the group tommorow. When the karaoke crowd arrived home, I chilled with David and Steve etc in the lounge. I read an origami book, it was so nice and impressive.