Compton and I have been enjoying the Japanese baths that our hotel has in it's spa on the bottom floor. Going to a Japanese bath is quite an experience & I think we have the routine and etiquette pretty much figured out so we can just enjoy it and not have to try and figure out what we're supposed to be doing anymore. At some point I'll give you a full report on the experience but it's almost nine, which is our bedtime over here (hey, we're still adjusting to the time difference, give us credit for staying up until nine).

Today when we were washing at the little wash stations, Compton was looking around at everything we had available to clean with and found a toothbrush which she opened and wanted to brush her teeth with but was perturbed because she couldn't find any toothpaste. Luckily, there was another woman next to us who found our plight amusing and wanted to enlighten us. So she told Compton just to start brushing with the toothbrush. Which Compton did and found that there was already toothpaste on the toothbrush. Those (us) Japanese are freakin' ingenious. The woman also showed us some of the other amenities like which soap was for your face and which for your body. I couldn't stop laughing, all that miming and confusion and to top it all off we're all naked and the situation's always funnier when the characters are naked.