Day 2

This is so late but i'm blogging for my sake, i want to rmb what happened in Hokkaido 10 years down the road! 
Day 2 (21/12/2011)
The next day, we had morning call at 7.30 am (i think), had buffet hotel breakfast and set off at 9am.

Since we were dying to see snow (like snowing snow), we decided to make our own makeshift one while waiting for everyone to start boarding the tour bus.

See how happy we are!
To our first sightseeing destination, very close to where we stayed the night before - Hell Valley. 

Basically just mountains and some well thingy that has loads of sulphur - with the vapour apparently good for your face. So walked around and let the vapour go on our face and we're done. Nothing much i say.


We then set off for our next destination, which is one of my favourites!
It is called 'Shi Dai Chun' in Chinese. A tourist attraction made to mimic the ancient Japanese Village with Ninjas and people of that time.

We watched TWO plays. One was about Japanese woman serving a rich man. And the rich man has to be played by the audience, after rounds of 'scissors-paper-stone' between 5 men, a representative from Korea snagged the opportunity to go on stage. The Japanese lady so pretty and elegant!

It was cute because the Korean guy did not understand Japanese and had to depend on the translator. Still, what a comic relieve. Language might be a barrier, but I felt that the audience understood the play through body language and facial expressions (non verbal communication).
The only down side was some people (not from our tour group, and hopefully not from Singapore) started leaving the venue halfway through the play. SO RUDE! There wasn't enough space to hold all of us, so some of us had to stand throughout. And these people just had to SQUEEZE their way out, making so much noise too! Basically disrupting the atmosphere very rudely.


The second play we watched was on Ninjas! Wow, i loved the actions and how fast they moved about in the small stage area. It was really tiny but they had secret doors and passageways here and there. Most of the scenes were lowly litted, with spot light on the characters on stage. Blackout for awhile and they all vanished from the stage! I LIKE!

Sadly, the picture taken with the performers wasn't clear :( That ninja couldn't take picture.
Then we walked around, tried the MAZE in that area. hahahaha SUPER FUN watch our shock and surprise the first thing we enter the maze!

A picture of my parents as they successfully conquered the ninja's house!

And we went to some Fa Chai Mao place which i thought was suppose to be cute, BUT IT TURNED OUT CREEPY :(

And 'Gui Wu' which means Monster/Ghost house, something like haunted house but you press the button and watch what happens to the 'robots'. Not that scary, but still, scary. Got one eye creatures, a lady who's neck stretched so long, etc etc.

Had lunch at the place. We had like a HUGEEEE basket/tray/container of food for us. Steamed, tourguide said this is the way the people ate their food last time. I guess because Hokkaido has a pretty chilly climate all year long. The sauce we had to dip the chicken was the best thing on earth! Salty but, shiok! :)

After lunch, we went to feed some hungry bears and take pictures with a volcano which was made from the volcano eruption from another volcano nearby. Tour guide said during the years where Japan was involved in WWII, there had been 7 eruptions? (or isit 11?). Because the tour guide believes 'what comes around, goes around' and 'karma', she personally believe that the continuous eruptions were a sign from 'up there' to stop their wrong doings. And true enough, after Japan surrendered, the volcano erupts once a decade. (Pictures of volcano in my Mum's iphone due to DSLR low battery :( )

The bears are cute, they will try to attract your attention by:
1. Standing up
2. Doing some funny action like - Praying action, Clapping, Waving.
How adorable, we fed them apples and cookies. But, they kinda stink haha.


We had a little more time, so we headed to a place (out of the itinerary) to take pictures near Lake Toya, which is near where our hotel will be for that night. Toya Palace it's called!

Sky was getting dark, checked into hotel, rest awhile and we went for Hotspring hahaha (yes again, because Hokkaido's just too famous for it!)
Dinner + beer :)

THEN IT STARTED TO SNOW!
So we quickly went to change back into our winter clothes and went to see!
but it stopped :( So we hung around looking at the pretty xmas lightings.

We built a mini snowman! So proud of us :)

Then it started to snow, abit. Little snow flakes. You can spot abit from the picture above!
And when we returned back to our rooms to sleep, it freaking snowed mad heavily! HAHA!


Okay that's all for Day 2, what a long day! 
Need to get ready to meet my boy now :)