Kuwatakan Ueda
Sugadaira-Kogen Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, Chubu, 380-2201, Japan
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Nothing new
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
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
... with the monkeys was rather unnerving. We were on the 2 km trek to the monkey onsen when there in the middle of our path sit two monkeys, one grooming the other. As you will see in the video we weren't sure at first how close to get to them. We read not to look them in the eyes, but rather look at them through a camera. The monkeys seemed to not even notice us walk past them. On our way to the top, monkeys crossing the pathway became ...
Mochi Making
... 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
... 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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