Jozankei Milione Ryokan Hotel Sapporo

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... were a quite underwhelmed. Once again, probably due to a lack of our own intoxication. Oh well, we had fun anyway singing the "irish drinking song" game from "Whose Line Is It Anyway."
The night ended back at the hotel, and we just decided to take it easy. I think we're all getting pretty tired of living out of backpacks and sleeping on trains. Speaking of trains, we have an early one tomorrow so goodnight all!

We emerged from our miserably long train ride exhausted, groggy, unshowered, and...freezing?! Apparently we were farther north than we had realized. Our second problem involved a the time. We stumbled out of the train station at around 630 am. Our hotel check-in time was 4 pm. We were able to dump our bags at the hotel, but we had to find somewhere to go for the next several hours. We grabbed some ...

... mieru (you can see sunset)" restaurant.
Oh, YUMMY!

This park also has this crazy fountain... the water goes up as high as 25 meters.

I could learn a bit about Isamu Noguchi today.
His father was a Japanese guy, and his mother was an American teacher.
Once his father knew his mother was pregnant, he went back to Japan.
Isamu was raised by his mother mostly in Japan, and ...

... excited to see another student who's studying about Ainu people. She set up a dinner with an Ainu sculptor and storyteller, Mr. Takashi Yuuki. Also, another student from Indiana, Shingo joined us. They were the members of the Indigenous Summit last year held right before the G8 Summit at Tohya Ko (Lake) in Hokkaido. 23 indigenous groups from all over the world gathered and discussed issues. They submitted a declaration to the participating nations. They told me ...

... to be back in the city. Changed our flight from Haneda so arrived in ...

... the history of chocolate from Mantazuma to the current day, we could smell the goodness made at the factory. As soon as we turned a corner we were in a hallway made to look as if it were made from melting chocolate. Within this hallway was a long display showing the old chocolate making process with projected Japanese kids as the tour guides. After the chocolate hallway we came to the factory part of the tour. Bombarded with smells, we looked down upon the miracle workers making ...

... arrived, it appeared she had known we were staring at her and was intentionally avoiding our table. Nevertheless we got our photo, albeit the waitress not looking too happy in the shot (understandably). On the plus side, Mike's found his perfect match for his Terminator look. The photo reminds me of those olden day photos where nobody smiles. Examining the photo the next day we found out that she was not as incredible as we were led to believe in our drunken state. She had ...