Well, even though it called for rain, we walked from our hotel to FUJI-Q first thing in the morning to see if it was going to open and if we could get on at least one roller coaster ride. Fortunately, it was open and we got in.
Unfortunately one of the main roller coasters that Jody wanted to ride and the ferris wheel that I wanted to ride were closed that day. However, this roller coaster ride with one of the world's steepest inverted drops was running and Jody was hot to ride. As you can see, the cart is going 90 degrees straight up.
Almost there.
Starting down.
Oh yeah!
Needless to say, we survived.
We skipped this bad boy as the rides are VERY expensive and the rain was approaching. Jody was just happy to have done the previous ride. I had no complaints.
The famous Japanese "Hello Kitty!"
But, with a cool reverse side.
Of course, I wanted to go to the "Labyrinth of Fear" - a haunted hospital. Jody wasn't thrilled about this, but since I went on the roller coaster with her, she was game.
I said she was game, not happy. As we walked through the hospital, and sometimes ran as demented, dead patients and doctors chased us, I noticed that Jody always wanted to be in front of me. When I asked why, she said that was because I only slowed her down. So much for my survival.
We survived this as well.
On our way back from FUJI-Q Jody took a nice picture of our hotel.
The hotel's flowers were, of course, Japanese beautiful.
We returned to our hotel before the rain got bad and I discovered that my feet had gone through a remarkable and disturbing transformation.
May, 2017 marks many, many important moments for me. It was exactly 50 years ago this month that I graduated from High School and traveled to Baltimore's Hippodrome Theater to see James Bond (the one and only Sean Connery) in You Only Live Twice. This film, which almost entirely takes place in Japan, thrilled me with its exotic locale and culture. So, on a rainy Thursday afternoon next to Mt. Fuji Jody and I relaxed with cheese, crackers, and wine and watching YOLT in our hotel room while it poured buckets outside. Ah, so good.
And finally we had a lovely Japanese steak dinner that we grilled ourselves in the hotel's fine restaurant. Time to go home. Up next - SUMO WRESTLING.
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