All that glitters is golden week.

I went to Yokohama for Golden Week. Golden Week is three consecutive national holidays. I did not know three days equaled a week.

Yokohama, from what I've seen, is the most international city in Japan. When I say international, I mean that I can have fried chicken one night and then fajitas the next. Yokohama is very international, like the food court at the mall.

Near Yokohama is Kamakura, home to Japan's largest outdoor Buddha. We, along with what seemed like all of India and Japan, took the same train to get there. This hurt my personal space and lungs. The Buddha was large, but not as large as I expected. Seth took photos of people taking photos of it. We saw white people and wondered if they were or were not JETs.

We took the Sealine (train over water) to a man-made island. There was a dog petting zoo. On the second floor, there was a cat petting zoo. The aquarium had 100,000 types of fish, but we didn't see any types of fish. We didn't go into the aquarium.

We stayed at the Hostel Village. Hostel is a funny word to me because it sounds like hostile. Different things can be hostile, like two homeless men fighting over a computer motherboard with wires hanging out from it. Hostile is the suspicious abundance of one-armed men who look as if they would like to take your arm so that they have two and you have one. Hostile is a man pointing, gibbering, then yelling "Sayonara" at you.

Other funny things happened. Here they are:

1. Lauren accidentally put 100 USD on her Denny's card. She may or may not have sold this card to a Denny's waiter to fix the problem.
2. Seth went to Yokohama just to see "Iron Man." It's not out anywhere in Japan.
3. We ate at TGI Friday's. Twice.
4. We spent over 100 USD at TGI Friday's. Once.
5. We encountered tax and tip for the first time in Japan.
6. Seth had water in his gimlet.
7. Seth's staircase was blocked by a mattress.
8. We saw "New York Style" bagels on the train. We asked the woman where they came from. The woman NEXT to her (who she didn't know) walked us all the way to the bagel shop.
9. A U.S. Navy man spent a full ten minutes giving us directions. We didn't find what we were looking for. He should have walked us there.