In the morning we played cards waiting for our chance to go into the city. After Shougun Peasant, Rat Screw and learning how to (play) Spit, until it was our time to be dropped off in Hiroshima. Our first destination was the Atomic Peace Museum which was rather emotionally intense and brought down everyone's spirits. So we just sat reflecting in the lobby, too depressed to decide upon our next stop. I brought out my netbook and was actually able to find free WiFi so we all shared the battery life while regaining our moral. I broke off from the group I came with and didn't have too much luck with the group I moved onto, John suggested he lead us around since he's been here before, and of course no one cared to follow. So we just wandered the park to the river, every time I broke off they followed me until we met up by a noodle place, John wanted American food so we ate there while he went his own direction. After a delicious meal we went to a video arcade, which was five floors high and full of awesome games. The first floor was filled with crane games which seemed rigged; however all the people who played won something: digital camera, neko, and lama plushie. Plus there was a taiko drum game everyone loved. Second floor had simulation games, third was a pachinko parlor and the forth most of the other game arcades. We played a rip off guitar hero game, the controllers sucked but at least the first round was a practice session. Then I found my favorite game, a DJ keyboard game like guitar hero, and it also allowed for three songs. The fifth floor was a costume photo booth floor for girls. After dinner at the youth retreat Nakita and I decided to go on a walk in the mountains, meeting up with various groups along the way, including Harguth and Chance. At the billboard Matt's family suggested going to the gondola but since I felt it was a really short walk I decided to take the other trail on the map with Nakita. Over all we spent nearly three hours talking and relating to one another. I took the lead and ran into many spider webs. I should have waved a stick to clear the trail. Fork after fork we went heading further and further up in the twilight that remained. We went far beyond the landmark, a metal power tower, and a little further past a gated area, by this time it was too dark for my camera to take pictures without flash but still enough light to see well. Finally I gave up finding the trails end and decided to take Nakita's advice on turning back, thus we made it back in perfect time for the end of the kids campfire songs. Oh yeah, the last thirty minutes of the hike we needed a camera's glowing screen to see the trail in front of us, and besides the spiderwebs, fear of animals, feelings of getting lost and Nakita's stumbling, after all she had flip flops on, but we made it back in good spirits. The music of the campfire drew us in, nearly forty cute little kids dancing around the fire made for an even better arival. Charlotte was dancing with the kids and after they finished we took pictures, the kids just loved just seeing Americans. It was surely a great day and Nakita and I no longer knew each other only because my friend was her ex boyfriend.

The next day we were the first group to be dropped off in Hiroshima, so, we surfed the net, and waited for Shannon who was in a later group who would show us to a karaoke booth. It was so fun, There were two songs I couldn't sing (Barbie girl and an Inuyasha one) one that I only knew the Engrish too and one that we all seemed to bomb... Good Riddance, I think it was the quick pace of the starting line that just threw us. All the other songs were great however! And you can never go wrong with Bohemian Rhapsody and Jason Mraz's I'm yours. After that I had two meals the second was a McShrimp burger at McDonald's we then all met up at the Arcade and played for the remainder of our time. After another dinner at the youth retreat, which by this point fourteen or more trays were left un-ate, Nakita and I wanted to go on another walk and brought Shannon and Nana. We just when to the gondola and hung out there for a little while.