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Today was the last day of the Golden Week vacation for me. We spent most of the vacation time in Kyoto and visiting Nara one of the days. We managed to avoid getting caught in any traffic jams by leaving before the weekend and driving back at night before the last day of vacation. On the way back though, the opposite lane was completely jammed most of the way!
For the last day of Golden week, we woke up to it raining and thinking it would rain the rest of the day but, fortunately, it didn’t. While our one year old took his morning nap I took our older three year old for a drive to the local Koi dealers, Mr. Miyatake’s place to talk Koi and ask about the latest problems my father in law is having with his Koi. We got back and ate lunch and met up with the rest of the family, my wife, one year old, and the grandparents.
As the weather was looking good, we (excluding my wife) decided to go climb a mountain. So following Grandma’s directions, we ended up at the foot of Dakeyama (嶽山) which, from the map I have, looks to be in Miki-cho. Like most of the mountains in Kagawa it’s not that tall but this one certainly has a tall mountain feel to it. At 204.7 meters it only takes about 30 minutes to get to the top, but don’t underestimate this mountain. Once you get to the top, your on this narrow ridge that feels like it just drops off on both sides. This is not the place to take a couple one and three year-olds that like to push each other around. One wrong step and there you go rolling down the side of the mountain!
But as it's bare rock at the top, the 360 degree view is really nice. We could see Sunport and Yashima to the North and, to the South East, Nyotai-san (女体山), Mt. Woman Body.
After getting down safely using the repelling chain that connects posts along the path, we found a couple four leaf clovers. This is the biggest one I think I’ve ever seen.
As it was too late to start preparing for dinner at home we ended up deciding to eat out somewhere in the neighborhood. Okonomiyaki was the popular vote and so we stopped at place called Jozen. It’s kind of on the end of a rice field like a lot of places in Ota that border the undeveloped rice fields. It’s about the fourth time I’ve been there and every time we go they are playing jazz. So it was Sonny Rollins and Okonomiyaki tonight. Before it was mostly Mingus.
A busy last day to a busy Golden Week.