Maple leaf watching!

Last tuesday a really nice Japanese guy I have met called Taira decided to go on a random trip during the week to see the Maple trees in the mountain area of Hakusan.  The road is called the Hakusan Super Rindo road which starts in Ishikawa Prefecture and ends in Gifu Prefecture.  The road actually closes in about a week as it starts to snow which would be very dangerous for cars to drive on.

As we drove closer to the road and away from Kanazawa the mountains opens up and it is a beautiful sight!!!!

As we drive further in the views are really spectacular as we are getting higher and higher....

It got colder as the journey went on, i'm really glad that i didn't catch a cold especially the 'KUSEP bug' is going around and a few people have been sick around the dorm! I wasn't wearing that many warm clothes too!

The people i went with! From left, Elisa, me, Claire and Taira the really nice guy who took us to see these beautiful views!

 

It started off really sunny but the higher we went the clouds were decending on us to the point it was really foggy!

We saw wild monkeys!!! This is probably the best picture i could get of them... most of them are blurry pictures of their behinds as they ran away from the car :P

We got to the point where we shouldn't go any further as it was getting dark and ended up eating some nice sweets in the car.  Then we went back to eat... at a conveyor belt sushi!!!! 

yum yum!!!! I miss these places, as you can see at the picture above, i ate 10 dishes :P it only came to about £10 so not bad! Haven't been up to much last weekend, went kareoke last friday, spent Saturday a little hungover :P but the temperture was insane! It was about 26 degrees, WTH! Then Sunday the heavens opened and we had a little brunch! Yummy crepes were made!!! 

And the weather has been really weird, Monday it was hot again about 23 degrees but today the heavens has opened up again, i didn't want to get up as it didn't look like it was light outside! I felt sooo tired in my first lesson, was yawning so much! Anyways this weekend should be going on this Autumn trip thing that the university has organised, should be fun!