Because this weekend is a 3 day weekend with Monday being a holiday, respect for the elderly day, me and 3 of the lab members rented a car and went to see the rest of Aichi prefecture. The main place we went to in the morning was a place where you can dig up and take your own sweet potatoes. The price is 300 yen for 1 kilogram of potatoes. A little more expensive than the store but it’s the experience that counts. At the same place there is a field where you can eat all the grapes you want and a playground called “tarzan mountain.”
The old lady who sowed us the way and told us what to do. She was really nice but had a strong accent. That’s what happens when you go out to the country. 
Nagai-san with the fruits, well… potatoes, of our labor. We just dug them from the ground with our hands. It wasn’t hard at all. But finding a big one felt like digging for gold. But there weren’t too many big ones because we came about 2 weeks too early.
Look at all the white bags of goodness! Inside are the grapes that we came for. You could eat all that you wanted to but we only ate one bunch each.
Members in the lab: Fukui-san, Miura-san, Yokoyama-san.
A tire swing on Tarzan mountain. There were a lot of kids there but us college kids enjoyed ourselves as well. 
We ate in a mountain restaurant after playing. On the bamboo sticks is cooked rice flavored with miso, it’s called asukenbou and pretty good. I had the plain curry.
After eating the rest of the day we just went sightseeing in the country at a place called Kourankei. Seeing the nature of Japan was refreshing but the windy mountain roads wasn’t.
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