Hokkaido 2016 – Random Videos and Thoughts

Date:  Jun 25, 2016

Very good luck indeed.  We spotted the BB-8 ANA plane.

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When you travel on the train, make sure you bring enough card games for the children.

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Bought this.  It has all the ingredient to bring good luck to you.  I like especially the dice.

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These are the explanation of the lucky harmer.

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Amazing taste.  Thesis from Okinawa.  Some chilli vinegar.  It tastes very very nice.

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He just wanted the Shinkansen Bento box.

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It’s Japanese Honey dew season.

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I only book the flight, and hotel.  The rest, we will refer to these two travel magazines we got from the convenient store.

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This is SOP (Standard of Procedure).  You have to get two balloon ready every morning.  And then, if the main balloon is OK, then, flatten the backup balloon.  That is what they do since 5am in the morning.

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Love this jam pack.  But we could not get it in Singapore?

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Mini Segway.

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Love this raw beef don.

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The Buta don is also very nice.

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Can’t help.  I bought 4 bottles back home.  This is the sauce for Buta Don that I like.

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Lot’s of wild life you can see.

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Butterfly eggs?

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Water drops

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First try, and I made it.  I am good at it.

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Kids are sure happy about it.

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And that night, we won that much of candies.

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I am not buying these!!!  Nope!!! NO Way!

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The tongue can be really long.

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It takes 100 years to grow to 10cm.

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Yeap!  The Butterbur is that tall.

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Suddenly all the cows came.  There look angry.

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The fog came in so suddenly.

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The black sands at Abashiri beaches.  It is very fine and soft.  Very good feeling of touching it.  Nice sands.

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We went to this floating ice museum.  There is this room, which is minus 15 degree celcius.  It is very cold, where they keep the floating ice there.  If you take a wet towel and swing 30-40 times…. What will happen?

The towel will become harden and become ice.  It is that cold.  Cool!

Let’s leave something behind.

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Kids love it!

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Favourite Dassai.

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An innovative way to peel eggs.

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The king of vending machine.  Let’s catch a snow crab.

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Don’t forget to sent yourself a postcard.

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Do you like the Hokkaido butterflies?  There are tons of them.  Very beautiful.

Let’s zoom in and slo-mo a butterfly.  Nice!

360 degree view of Lake Mashu

Another 360

The kids were exposed to Curling for the first time…

A Japanese Crane (The wild one all have gone out looking for food)

Jay Jay helping to keep the hot air balloon by rolling himself on the ballon and letting the air out…

One way to flatten the balloon is to use a big fan to blow it straight.

eee…. The squid is still moving…

Let’s eat the eye first.

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