Mandarin Orange Picking & Kawazu Seven Waterfalls Hiking

Our next tour for November started out with Mandarin Orange Picking.  There was a grove on the side of the mountain and we were allowed to eat as many oranges that we could eat in one hour.  The tour guide said she had a prize to whoever ate the most oranges... so Ally, never backing down from a challenge, ate 8 oranges in an hour!  She won a piece of chocolate and couldn't even eat it because she felt so sick!



The Wildlife!  Watch out!

Next on our tour was the Kawazu Seven Waterfalls hike.  It was really pretty and a nice day for a hike!  We got dropped off on the side of the road and our tour guide started out taking us in the wrong direction.  Once we figured out the right way to go - we stopped for a bathroom break.  Only problem was since this was out in the middle of nowhere - there were no regular toilets in the bathroom... Ally and I had to squat and pee in the hole in the ground "traditional" Japanese toilets!

Next we went to Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.  We went up to the top of this crater via what looked like a ski lift.  When we got to the top you could see down inside the crater and they actually had people down in the center doing archery.  We walked around the top perimeter and got some fantastic views.



Ally and I on the Lift.




580 Meters is roughly 634 Yards



 Here are some more pics of the kids with the view - which was kind of cloudy that day!