Its my birthday!

So its my birthday! We should see Mt.Fuji from a cable car today and then head off to Kyoto on a Shinkansen. I am really glad we got the JR pass. It ends today and from tomorrrow on we will have to pay for our JR trains. Since its the last day we are going to use it to get to a mountain in the western side of Kyoto and feed the monkeys. That is, if we get there in day light. Its a 3 or 4 hour train ride from here and we might be on a slower train because we are at a small train station now (Hakone). Maybe we will do it tomorrow. We might eat breakfast and go back to bed. Lisa feels worse. As long we we check out at 11. This is a nice hotel-- the only night in one on this trip. We may as well stay in it longer, right?

Yesterday we went to a big fancy onsen. Yunnesan, I think was the name. Along with the regular onsen they had baths with green tea, coffee, wine, charcol, and sake. It was pretty neat and we could wear swim suits in the fun pools. We swam in the normal pool some too. I hadn't done laps in the longest time.

Sorry for the lack of posts. We messed up our travel plan and paired with lack of sleep, we both got sick. It doesn't look like Lisa will get to go to Karaoke again because she won't have a voice. I have a voice this morning at least.

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Cairns

We made it to Cairns without any trouble. The airport security is much more lax than the US- at least for a domestic flight. We left our shoes on, and since I checked in at one of their computer things and only checked my bag, Lisa's ID was never checked! Isn't that different. You just walk through with your ticket and the TSA equivalent looked very bored :).

We went on a jungle tour today and tomorrow we are going scuba diving! I am excited about scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef!!! The weather here is warmer than the weather in Sydney.

The jungle tour included: Mossman George (the water was clear and cold), Port Dougles, a Daintree River Cruise where we saw 5 alligators, and Cape Tribulation.

I am hungry. We should go eat :)