A week ago we busted out my pink bike and I hopped on it again for the first time in ages.
I was so slow it was embarrassing.
we went to the beach on miyajima ... there was a huge tropical storm thing that hit and we got caught in it. lightning struck about 2 metres away from where we were standing. it was insane!

my weeks keep flying by at super pace. matt's home from school everyday (which is why i haven't blogged in so long! i tend to do this kind of stuff while he's at school, he's sleeping now though)...

this last weekend we were supposed to have a race but instead it got rained out (bummer) and we all went swimming at this great waterhole in yuki, an onsen town in the mountains behind where we live. it was a pretty sweet spot and we jumped off rocks into clear streams below... it had stopped raining long before. then we took a hot bath and drank some beer and headed home.

for dinner matt and i decided to be simple and just make some guacamole with doritos (they're the only kind of nacho chips you can buy easily in Japan, the rest are hard to find and stamped with the word IMPORT making them very expensive!) ... point of this story is, i'm allergic to doritos. they totally made me pass out! it was uncontrollable too! i passed out on the sofa, then again while making the bed! (we sleep on futons and you're supposed to put futons away daily which means making your bed every evening, i like it, feels fresh). then i got bitten by a mosquito like 10 times and woke up really sick.
MORAL OF THE STORY IS: don't eat doritos.