Hotel Viola Hakuba-mura

3322-1 Hokujo Happo Hakuba-mura, Kitaazumi-gun, Nagano Prefecture, Chubu, 399-9301, Japan

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Nothing new

A travel blog entry by britadam

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Not much new to report today. Our work today consisted of cleaning Joe's shed up. It is tougher than I thought, cleaning someone else's space. It snowed a lot last night, so I kept busy with shoveling.
Just finished baking a batch of carrot, apple, ginger muffins. The oven seemed to play nice ...

Piece of Cake

A travel blog entry by britadam

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This past Sunday, Adam and I had the day off. Sarah and Joe were having supper at their place and asked if we would make a dessert. Since we both like baking, we agreed to make something. Apparently Japanese people don't do a lot of baking and have these tiny table top ovens that double as microwaves.

We decided to make a chocolate cake, but because the heating elements fold down on top of the baking dish, the top of the ...

Zenko-ji and Snow Monkies

A travel blog entry by britadam

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On our day off today, we took a trip into Nagano city. It was about 35 minutes by train. We visited the Zenkoji temple which is 1400 years old. It holds the first Buddhist statue ever brought to Japan. It is wrapped in cloth and is believed not to been seen by human eyes since the 1700's. A replica is shown to the public every 7 years.
Next we travelled to Yukanada, where we hung out with the snow monkeys for the afternoon. Our ...

Mochi Making

A travel blog entry by britadam

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... host, Sarahs', company, Obusedo. They were also serving sweet sake and roasted chestnuts. Sweet sake is a non-alcoholic, warm rice drink. It is made with the left over liquid from the sake brewing process. All were very delicious!

Sarah taught us how to say Happy New Year in Japanese- Akemashita omedeto goziamasu!

The mochi making continues tommorrow. Bye for now!

Brit & Adam
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Japanese New Year celebration

A travel blog entry by britadam

... shrine. I have not read about the significance of each shrine yet, but I am sure we will find out tomorrow.

There was very nice Japanese "shrine" music, bonfires, and lots of mika's (they get them when they pay tribute with coins). We are back at our house and we can still hear the gongs being rung. There were a few fireworks far off in the distance as well, but nothing like at home.

We have a busy day tomorrow, so bedtime here. Happy 2012!
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