Still not too much going on. I spent the weekend in Hirosaki again at Hugh's place where I spent many hours playing xbox and watching horror movies. Saturday we went shopping to this store that sells some foreign foods and I grabbed some maple sirup and chocolate milk mix. Today while Hugh and the others were getting naked at the onsen I went to pay my old nemesis Mount Iwaki a visit. I drove my brand new 1991 Subaru Legacy up a long, steep road to near the top of the mountain, where I then took a chairlift up a few more hundred feet to just below the peak. I then began my tortuous climb up the rocky slope. After a back breaking 35 minutes I finally reached the top. The view was amazing, but it was quite cold.. well below zero. The dozen or so senior citizen mountaineers at the top were amused by the little snowman I built to mark the historic occasion. I returned home to ironically see on TV the 2000 mountain climbing movie 'Vertical Limit", starring Chris O'Donnell. That movie made climbing K2 look pretty tough, but it was peanuts next to what I endured on 1600 meter high slopes of Iwaki-san. On the way home I killed a few thousand frogs (I estimate) who all decided for some suicidal reason to cross a busy highway at the same time. If you've ever seen the movie Magnolia, then that's kind of what the roads looked like. After spending all weekend watching horror movies I'm beginning to worry that thousands of zombie frogs are going to come after me looking for revenge. Jenny has posted more pics to her photo album, but I'm only in one of them.