My Golden Week Holidays #2

After the long UOP MMI study was finally over, my Golden Week for 2005 has started. April 29 was a nice day as I mentioned earlier. April 30 and May 1 was spent at the gym (my next step is to loose weight as I am eating and drinking too much after the "work and study" stress).
From May 2 to 5 I went to Yatsugatake Mountain House. On May 2, I was supposed to wake up at 5:00am but could not wake up until 7:00am. We gave up the original plan and departed Tokyo around 9:00am.
We went to "Hichiken" Sake Brewary in Hakushu. It is a great place preserving the historical "Tsukuri Sakaya" building which had an honor of accommodating the Emplor of Meiji. They also have a shop which serves the sake tasting experience. After that we found a very nice craftman neighboring "Hichiken" called Komoda who can be the supplier of the coming website called Hospitality Japan.com. We then went to our favorite Gansen soba noodle shop and enjoyed Hichiken sake, soba noodles and spring vegetables tempura.
May 3 was spent quietly at the mountain house with walking, some work and going to the "Masutomi Onsen" hot springs.
On May 4, we had a walk and picked up Cana-chan in Kobuchizawa. Lunch at Italian restaurant (so so, yappari soba at "Gansen" was a better idea) and walk around Resonale. We took Cana-chan to "Masutomi" hot springs and had dinner and drink at the house.
On May 5, Poohee climbed the Takatoya Mountain and we had a walk with Cana-chan after the breakfast. We did photoes shooting used for the website of the Hospitality Japan.com. We then went for purchasing Cana-chan's ticket at Kawakami Station and shopping at Nana's and had a BBQ lunch. I showed how it looks the Cana-chan's works on the website by slide show. We took Cana-chan to Kawakami Station. We had cleaned up the house for the coming season and went home after stopping at Oizumi Health Hot Springs. There was an accident on the Chuo Express Way so it took us 4 hours (from 10:00pm to 2:00am) to come back home.
May 6 was a work day (so much to do as I did not go to the office after April 26 for more than a week).
On May 7, I went to Tokyo English Life Line (TELL) Runathon/Walk with Kaji-san, Nakada-san, Eno-san, Ai-chan and Iwahara-san. As I had cold after so much to do for long (MMI study, work on website at the Mt. House, work on May 6), I had cold and some fever so I did not run by kept everybody's bags. It was cold and rainy in the moring but the weather changed dramatically to sunny and warm by the noon. I came back to Jingumae by walking from Aoyama 1-chome to home. By then my condition was really bad and I had to have some rest and medicine. I continued my blog and survey work to use as the market research for the coming website during the night.
On May 8 which is the last day of the Golden Week of 2005, I went to the gym and did the normal jog (10K), aerobics, and machine trainings.
From tomorrow, I have to go back to my general routine and should concentrate on the completion of the Hospitality Japan.com website.

Golden Week is over and May is for creating the homepage

My University of Phoenix Master of Management International Course which started in November 2003 was finally over on April 27, 2005. Work and study at the same time was really hard (much more than I could have imagined). I was busy with my work on the renovation of a VIP guest house on April 27 and 28 to welcome the VIP guests for the coming Golden Week holidays. We had a great calendar of Golden Week holidays in Japan which lasted for maximum 10 days if you take only 2 days off! To congratulate my finish of the Master's degree, my Golden Week started with the Sushi dinner at Kitazawa Club on April 27 after posting my final assignment at the midnight. Apirl 28 was hard work in Hakone which brought me home finally around the midnight. On April 29, I had a good holiday starting with the birthday shopping of my beloved niece, Shoko, and my mom in Shibuya followed by lunch at Hong Kong Garden dim sum lunch with the whole family including Kay and Ken in Hiroo. Then I went to Yanaka and Sendagi with Poohee to look for the materials for my Hospitality Japan.com website.