Hokkaido, Japan. 18th, 19th and 20th December 2009; Got to get that
[ 1:53 AM ]
boom, boom, boom.♥Listening to: Prologue, Beauty and the Beast OST
♥Mood: tired
♥Location: in the hall, home alone
The hotel was horrible. The alarm didn't wake me up. I'm not sure if it even rang. I mean, if normal alarms can get me up and going, why not this one? So, this post was originally written in point form of the places, so it's up to my memory to do the rest. While waiting for oppa to come down with the breakfast coupon(he is such a girl sometimes. Shhh!) I saw thia mini display turtle with a shell decorated with red diamons! Aka Kame! AKAME! <3 My fangirl side was squealing with joy. Again they forced me to eat up and we were the last people to arrive. First up was the Old village thing, where people donated old houses from that time and preserved it. We took loads of pictures, and some of the insides of the houses reminded me of Onimusha. Honest! The pictures will be up....tomorrow. There was also this playground with a swing and seesaw, basic stuff. While swinging high, it reminded me of that time in Australia. It was my first time swinging so high without any help, much thanks to Rachel who taught me during the retreat in June. I had fun pushing unnie since she couldn't get high enough. (:
It was time to get back to the second building on the map, to see the family of ultra man. HAHA. Anyways, they changed the exhibit and it was empty like nothing. ): Unnie was buying a drink and when she dropped 10 yen, the Japanese students picked it up and didnt even say anything. Watshi okane(which means my money in Japanese)! D<
Next up was the Zoo! :D I forgot how long ti took to get there, but it wasn't that long. We had to walk a long way from the east gate entrance to the penguin area where they are doing their exercise. They do it twice a year and it's a really popular attraction among the locals. They look so adorable and this little toddler, Sakura-chan was also adorable. She almost fell but her okasan picked her up in time. (: Umma and I were just cooing Sakura-chan until they bid farewell.
We went to look at many other animals too but first was the other species of penguins, then we sort of split up. We were sort of lost when trying to find our way to see the wolves but we found our way there anyways. On our way there, we passed the leopard cage, the panther and the grizzly. OH! The grizzly was just too cute. It was so cold that even the grizzly was pawing the door to get out of the cold. <3 When we got to the wolves, the viewing area was just so awesome. It was only when I heard the two guys near us excalimed, "Suge!" did I turn my head around and was shocked by what I saw. The white wolf was just inches away form my face, of course, I was behind the transparent glass. Oppa was still trying to find the wolves until I hit him on the arm who knows how many times before he turned around and caught the wolf walking away.
I hightailed out of the place as soon as the wolves went out of sight, hoping to catch them at the other side, which I did. I got insanely cool shots of them too. The white one smiled at me! It was so adorable. I smiled and waved back too, of course. The wolves then became very panicky and started pacing around when they heard the clock chime. It was then when the photo taking got hard. They must have been worried or afarid of something, or they were just mocking me when I was stupidly following them to get a good shot. The black wolf reminded me of Sam Uely(however you spell his surname) though. The eyes were like Jacob's. Went to see the white foxes later and the lazy polar bear next. Unnie and I laughed at it's laziness. It was so cold that our toes were freezing and hurting from the cold. In a desperate attempt to get warm, I bought hot chocolate for 120 yen. It was tasty, but not toasty. The six of us rushed back to the visitor's center where it was nice and warm. Got a couple more shots of the beautiful sunset and chatted with Yan and Peichuan.
After was the Snow museum, a lot more pictures and umma and I grumbled about appa, being a little annoying when he refused to take picures when the battery was low. So what if the battery was dying? It was almost the last stop. All of us were amazed by the different tyoes of snow flakes they are, amazed by God's creation. How great is our God! There was this room that looked like something out of Final Fantasy where they had pictures of all the different ypes of snow flakes. Beautiful.
Next was shopping again, since it was too early for dinner. Guess what? :D NEWS was advertising this perfume brand and I saw their little ad! Like, paper ad. <3 Precious Rose, if I'm not wrong. It was their anniversary. Adorable. The mall had like what, gap which was on 50% off for the WHOLE ENTIRE FRIGGIN' STORE! :D Unnie did all the shopping since I wasn't that interested in long sleeves(not until now that is). :/ We were late again, but thankfully after slpitting up with the boys midway, we met again on the escalator down. CK got a good saying from unnie. ^^' At least she bought a top from there. Next up was dinner, but before that was taking a brief look at the 30+ story watch tower where you can see the whole nightview. The guys had it better, as they got to see the view in their toilets too while the girls just had the normal cubicals. Dinner was delish ramen, where they greet you oh-so-enthusiastically when you enter and leave. One of the waiter is such a cutie, seriously. I wanted to ask if I can take a picture with him but...no guts. Heh. Okay, so the bullet for dinner says Dinner: Ramen <3 + fish :/ + pork :D + rice but I have no idea what led to the fish, pork and rice.
The outside of the hotel was cold, negative seven degrees celcius. The hotel was horrible, such a small room. Oppa and I had to tag team to lift the table with the tele so that there was enough space for his luggage. For the first time, there was no CNN, no English channels. ): There wasn't a hair dryer either, so we couldn't wet our hair when we showered. At least there was a nice Japanese movie to watch. Sure, I couldn't understand much but there wasn't a need to. Japanese has this ablity to capture the emotion and all that and make it understandable to one who doesn't understand Japanese. It was such a touching story about a dog named Mani and a family whose old house got destroyed in an earthquake. The rescuers saved everyone but the dogs(it was a small family!) and the girl was crying so bad which made me wanted to cry too. Mani just kept running after the helicopter but it was impossible to catch up with her. Mani had to live alone without any shelter from the crows that pecked it's child and the cold rain. Well, Mani did find shelter for the rain and a quilt to keep the pups warm. Long story short, they came back for Mani and the family was reunited again. Happy ending, as always.
P.S. Heat packs work when it's not suppose to, freezes when it needs to.
P.P.S. I wrote Kame(in Hiragana) <3 and part of the White Christmas lyrics on the window and hotel toilet(the mirror got foggy after shower) Also I wrote aishiteru, Kame(in Hiragana) <3 on the window and on the wooden seesaw in snow! <3 SPREAD THE AKAME.
I can't remember much, but I remember anything on 19th since I was too tired to write, much less do QT but on the 20th, we had to wake up at 5am, leave for the airport at 540am and have a mini breakfast on the bus. We had a delish lunch and had to run for our flight. At the check in point, it was so embarassing. We cut the whole queque and the Japanese couple behind me kept asking why and what are they doing to themselves. ): If only I knew how to converse in Japanese then I would have explained it to them. We made in in time, with unnie and I doing a lot of running in heels. The flight back was awesome! Who knew Yan was into Japanese and Korean pop too? :D We chatted throughout the whole flight back home(five hours!) and I ignored the pain in my ears. It was just so great to find a fellow fan. (: Yan and I were gradually getting jetlag on our way to collect the luggage. We were chatting about all the bands we knew, intorducing bands to each other and playing games on her itouch. TAP TAP, TAP TAP REVENGE! :D We took a group picture before separating and headed back home in a taxi after the rest of my family were done buying what they needed for their friends and themselves.
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Cheers, time to wrap presents! <3
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