The bath

The bath.  The hotel was beautiful!!!  It was amazing.  We checked in and immediately they told us about the three different baths that we could enjoy.  Now let me tell you about the bath.  The bath is really a oversized hot tub with different scenes.  We went to the rock bath so the rock bath was a big hot tub that was made out of rocks.  The rocks made the tub and two of the walls with a waterfall coming down the middle of the wall.  It was actually a very cool room.  Now the set back, are you ready for it, you have to be naked to get into the bath.  Aaaahhhhhhh!!!  I know so completely awful.  So literally you get naked besides having your underwear on and put on a kumoto (see my mom in the above picture).  Then you walk to which bath that you want.  Each bath is open at specific times for a specific sex.  Thank goodness for at least that.  Then once you got to the changing room you would strip down to nothing then walk into the bath room.  Next you would wash your self (soap and shampoo) and enter into the bath.  Then you just soak.  If I had known about the whole nakedness thing before I heard about the hot springs I absolutely WOULD NOT have decided that was where I wanted to spend my birthday.  Now some people might not think that the whole nakedness thing is something that warrants a freak out, well then you haven't met me.  I am the picture of complete modesty.  Modesty is seriously my middle name.  I don't do that sort of thing, the only people that are allowed to see me naked are Bill and unfortunately my doctor.  However, now that I did it once I am not feeling extremely embarassed and as modest.  I think that it's a good thing.  Modesty is still important to me still but I'm not as freaked out as I was before the trip to Japan.  So maybe it was a good thing.