Hokkaido trip Day 6 & 7

We had lotsa ice cream on Day 6

Soda, melon, lavender, kiwi...
u can get up to SEVEN different swirls of flavours in one single cone!!

We went to the town of Otaru for coffee.
Where u paid a little more to keep the coffee cups as souvenirs
Of cos keep kitty cups la.
i like wat! ;p

Otaru also has alot of stores selling musical boxes!
N glass blowing.... n intricate stuffs..

Think our best lunch so far during the tour.

hugeass scallops.
BBQ-ing in their own juices n butter...

Big shell

Big shell!
If its as wide as my fat face, it's Big lar!

Big shell fan

big shell eyes...

Can't remember wat this place is in Otaru also..
jus stop to take photo only after lunch
some scenic canal with oil lamps on the sidewalk.

Went to temple of the Fox spirit..

Where u rinse before u pray..

Fortunately for us there was some kinda carnival (aka pasar malam) outside the temple.


It's children wonderland as even cotton candy is sold in a wide variety of cartoon/manga wrappers!

Those stick balloon thingys r like damn hot, everybody bought them!!

Little japanese girls playing tikam.
Just pay 400 yen n they get a spade to scoop up colourful balls from the water..

"like tt also fun meh?? -__-" i asked my sister..

More tikam games as the kids choose the balloon they want n r given a hooked stick n they fish it out from the water.

Expensive candies
3 for 1000yen. (SGD15)

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Sapporro Tower as we go back to Sapporo Town...

I chew on a Green tes mochi with red bean filling..
yum yum~

Dinner of kobe beef
i had a thin slice n its good!!!

6 groups from our tour ordered live abalones
they were cooked live in a hotpot in sake.
it's damn 'jek ark' la to see these dudes squirming around in the heat of the pan. ;(

i took a video on my dad's camcorder n mum was not amused n told me to imagine if one of my kids got pulled away to get cooked.

Hokkaido only camembert cheese flavoured Collons!
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We had half a day before boarding the plane on Day 7 n so were brought to a outlet shopping place near Chitose airport.

Bought nothing cos was outta yen n dad specifically told me not to use my credit cards.

Try these fried potato chips!

Apparently they were released as limited edition the previous year n each buyer had to q damn long at the airport for it n were limited only to 3 boxes only.

This marks the end of my Hokkaido trip n i brought home a pretty chocolate brown Porter Japan bag for the boyfriend for his birthday n a 1.5 kg tube of spare lard coating my waist.
Argh*

Hokkaido trip Day 4 & 5

Sorry i left off for so long but m here to continue with my Hokkaido trip entries!

Day 4 started with a trip to some boring fort in Hakodate.
The night before we went to see the top 3 night view thingy but weather was bad n it was so foggy we couldn't see past the ledge of the cliff.

Some really old cherry blossom tree.. which stills blossoms though it looks bloody rotten.

Family pic!

After tt it was a looong drive out to Izuya or something chocolate factory n we stopped at this place for lunch.

Fish. Sea urchins in the foreground.

Hugeass alaskan crabs... n expensive too

N 01 lonely pufferfish...
Think for display only la...
he looks sad n diseased...

More kitties!

N then positively our worst meal ever for the whole trip...

jus veg n cube of tofu n some measly prawns n 1 person gets some NOT very yummy half a hairy crab.

pfft* ;@

But we did buy a couple slices of their very premium rock melon to try.
Going at at least 3800 yen (approx 57 SGD) per whole melon, we got 2 slices of melon at 6SGD PER SLICE.

But quite power la. sweet n mega juicy lor.
definitely not worth 60 bucks per ball though.

To the famous choc wafer factory next.
not many photos taken of its palace like exterior cos i was grumpy n tired by the end of the day..
this is some room where ppl go in to learn to make choc confectionery or something.

The very pretty clock tower which puts on a really good show every hour!

Getting my lavender fix...
*oooosahhhh*

Flower power!!

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DAY 5

Cheese, pizza n iced milk factory..

Grape, sweet corn, pumpkin, Asparagus(?!?), cheese flavoured ice creams!

Cheese of the world!!
Tempted to buy the yummy creamy cheese cakes back but shelf life of only 3 days n expanding bellies kept us in check.

Weighing, packing, pressing, sealing freshly made butter into their individual cartons.

Next up
Farm Tomita in Furano
As if we haven't had enough ice cream to induce 'lao sai', we were brought to Farm Tomita for some lavender ice cream...
also got rock melon ice cream.
too full of ice cream to try le la.

Expensive rock melons.
it says "1 slice 300 yen, 2 slices 550 yen"

tt's approx S$4.50 to S$8.25 respectively...

Map of farm Tomita.
Note the rainbow parts!

Rainbow!

Unfortunately, lavender only harvests during the month of July n we were a month early...
There was a green house where we saw a patch of full grown lavender flowers though..

Nearly rainbow-ish?

Cutting, moulding, packing, sealing lavender soaps...

The stages of lavender flavoured soaps

Bottling lavender essential oil..


Check out my dad dad's tummy!! Whoop! ;D

Me n my first soda pop bottle
Happened to b lavender flavoured!

Everyday got scallops for meal.
Lunch!

Kitty break!!!!
*hugs*

We stopped at some cafe where they filmed some car commercial, GTO? GTR???
Dunno la.. i was so sleepy n can't really b bothered..
EVERYDAY wake up at 6 am SG time can!?!?
nothing like a holiday at all lor.

Check out the view of the mountains behind..
like the marbling of kobe beef my dad says..

Next to some ice palace place..

Where it's so cold, at least -20 degrees celsius , tt a wet towel goes in n comes out stiff as shit.

Some chamber tt measures at -41 degrees celsius when u push a button..

N picture gallery of those who survived the cold chamber....
half naked...

Another kitty break before the day ends!! ;D
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Smoke n bed time for me in Milan, my current location.
Morrow gonna go to Fox town (some outlet mall) for the first time.
Ferregamo pumps! please dun b too expensive even though we r too early for summer sale which only starts 4jul!