It’s been a very long day and I just had to wash mayonnaise out of my hair so let me post some pictures with comments coming later.

OK, we met our friend Yumi fairly early this morning and had to leave by 7am and didn’t get back until 9pm-ish. We went to a bakery at the station for breakfast that was the only thing open. I really didn’t need two bread things plus the yogurt, but there was a “set” deal that also got my coffee included.

Yumi drove us to Mt. Daisen which, as it’s name states, is a mountain. Everything from the parking lot is up.

There’s a little village with not much there. TabiEats was there and had a video on YouTube about it.

Up one of the longest (the longest?) stone path in Japan is a temple and a shrine.

I was told the shrine is more interesting than the temple but I don’t know because we just went to the shrine.

We kept going up to a viewpoint where there was a clear view of Mt. Daisen.

And there it is, Mt. Daisen.

We went back down to the village to get lunch we had curry and ran into members of Yumi’s climbing group.

After that we drove on the loop around the mountain to see some more fall views.

On the way back to Okayama, we stopped at a gelato store kind of in the middle of nowhere. They’re right next to the dairy areas and have prize-winning gelato. The closest is mine, Yuzu and Strawberry. Back left is Mariko’s, Kinako and Matcha. Back right is Yumi’s, Matsutake and Golden Milk. Lots of the flavor advertised and quite tasty.

Back at Okayama we went out to yakiniku with Yumi’s running group and it was an old-school store with gas grills.

I ate too much and I’m quite tired from the mountain. That’s about it for the day.

Oh, yeah, while on the mountain I got a glob of pine sap in my hair. A big glob. I didn’t know how I was going to get it out and every time I forgot and touched it I had pitch all over my fingers. We figured I could buy some cooking oil or peanut butter (like I’ve seen peanut butter here) to get it out but what I found was a mini bottle of mayonnaise at the combini. It worked great and didn’t take that much so now I have most of a mini-bottle of mayo to throw out.