Monday Emi was meeting one of her friends and left me with a task - to retrieve her bicycle from work. So I walked for 20 minutes in the baking sun to her work place and then spent to next 20 minutes looking for her bike as there were hundreds. In the end it was parked where I had started looking only first time around I missed it! I rode it home and then though I'd give it a little TLC.
I rode to the local bike shop to use their pump to put some air in the tyres, I put some lube on the chain and bearing areas and cleaned the frame up with WD40 to stop it going rusty. I then decided as it was a nice day that i'd go for a ride. From Hon-Atsugi I rode past my work and on to Up-Garage (used car parts shop), then up the 129 and across to Aiko-Ishida to visit Part-Off (another car parts place) and then back to Hon-Atsugi. The bike was much better for the lube and air and I got a little fitter - the ride was about 15-20km in the end.
Tuesday started off with a visit to Autobacks in Hon-Atsugi with Emi. I was after some car wax and couldn't finger out what all the different products did on my own. After about 45 minutes we bought one and headed on to a hand car wash place in Aiko-Ishida.
Put 500 Yen in the machine and I had a jetwash for 12 minutes, managed to get it very clean. Afterwards wiped all the water off, used some special windscreen cleaner and fitted some new wipers. Then once we got home Emi cleaned the Leather seats with some special wipes, I cleaned the plastic interior parts with some more wipes and then used some AC cleaner spray. At the end of the day I was quite satisfied with the interior - very clean looking, feeling and smelling - but not so happy with the exterior - found 10 stone chips on the windscreen and plenty on the body.
In the evening Emi threw some onion, cheese, potatoe and eggplant together to make a wonderful dinner.
Wednesday Emi and I went to Yunesan in Hakone, a water park with a different. Most water parks have many water slide and a big swiming pool. This place had lots of little pools each with a different theme. Some where just hot water and you sat surrounded by rocks, one the water had Japanese green tea in it, another had some red wine (and lots of red colouring) in the water etc. The strangest and nicest part was "Doctor Fish". Basically you put your feet in a pool and these little fish nibble on your feet eating dead or injured skin. Initial it feels very strange but after a while it feels very nice!
Thursday was a bit of a lazy day as we where going on a trip Friday-Sunday. However when I wasn't relaxing I was waxing the car. It reminded me why I never waxed me previous car, it is such a ball-ache. 2 hours of sweat and struggle and what had I achieved? I could now clearly see 7 years of paint damage, marks, stone chips and scratches. What a reward!
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