Just back from vacation

So we finally got a vacation, a whole week of it, and it was wonderful. We started out heading to Nigata Prefecture for a friend's wedding, stayed the night there then headed to an Onsen in Nigata called Rankeiso. Spent two nights there and headed into neighboring Gunma Prefecture to Takaragawa Onsen.

A day's routine at an Onsen went something like this. Check in around 2 or 3 in the afternoon after a train ride through some very pretty mountain country. Go take a bath for an hour or so, come back to the room and start drinking and reading. Dinner was usually around seven. After dinner continue drinking for a little bit then go take another bath. Come back from bath, finish off bottle and sleep usually around 10 or so. Get up the next day around 5 or 6, go take a bath, breakfast around 7:30 or 8, head back to the room and read. At or around noon, go take a bath and start up drinking again after getting back. Rinse and repeat. It was heaven.

There's a decent number of photos for all of this on the gallery. Go take a look.