Hakone Can Be Hell

You wouldn't think so, right? "Looks all right to me!" you're thinking - not bad for a paid business conference! But you know what they say about some of the best-laid plans...(btw, still May here).







Here's my temporary roomie and I. I don't know - she like, peed on herself or something. Actually, it may have been someone else's pee. Either way, I'm not one to hold that sort of thing against a sister.







And there's the rest of the crew. We've got one Panda Superstar, a self-proclaimed Midwestern Playboy, fellow Witte A 2000 alum, Random Dude Who's Only Significantly Annoying, and a man put on this earth to infuriate me by the mere thought of his breath (and the fact that he tried to order me into oncoming traffic). I'll let you figure out who's who.









Here are some boats. We road the pirate ship on the left. That's what most people do on teaching conferences, cruise on pirate ships, right? There were a lot of children on the boat, and we all know how I feel about that crap.


Ah, and here we have the carpet outside my room. Classy joint, eh?





Okay, so you're probably thinking that didn't look so bad. You pretty much couldn't be more wrong. The weather was craptastic, our "fearless" "leader" had/has questionable sanity, and I think the inn we were at gave me TB. P and I are lucky we survived. Word.