Japan 2019 – Day 2 (Tottori) Onsen, Dinner & Photographs

Date:  Dec 16, 2019

We are back to Hawai Onsen Hotel Bokoro.

The Onsen

The first thing to do is change to our onsen outfit and take a nice photo.

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Again.  Stand closer.

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Again… and do dap.

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The Dinner

This is today’s Kaiseki dinner.

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Lovely.

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White fish and jello.

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Starter drink.  Umeshi.

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Fresh ingredients.

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Cheers.

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Fresh big prawns and kani and sashimi.

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Nice soup.

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Cheers on the Sake.

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What we drinking tonight.  On Day 2.

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Again.  Big feast.

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Prawn is so fresh and nice.

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Specially order for Kay Kay.  He does not eat funny looking food.  So I have to use broken Japanese speak to the waitress auntie.  She then bring out a high tech gadget and speak to me in perfect Chinese (i.e. Poketalk).  So, from then, I decided to hunt for a PokeTalk for myself when I go Osaka later.

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Definitely not Kay’s favourite.  But it is ours.  Nice fish head.

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Tasty soba.

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Nice oden.

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Soup has boiled.  Tasty.

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Funny looking fish tempura.  Oh.. It’s Fugu…………….  Puffer fish.

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So big puffer fish.

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Kani soup.

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Lastly, nice dessert.

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The Photographing Session

At 9pm, we leave the kids in the hotel, and my wife drove me to the opposite of the lake.  There is a nice garden there, very very dark.  Tonight can see nice sky and stars bah.

Of course, we have to change to winter outfit.

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Let’s take some photos of our hotel first.

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The outdoor onsen.

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The walking bridge.

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It looks like this.

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OK, let’s move out.  5 min drive to that park.

Everything is prepared.

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Wait.  Where are all the stars?

Why so many clouds???

Just now before dinner it is still clear sky????

OMG…

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The moon suppose to come out from the mountain.  But it is totally covered by the cloud.

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Sort of looks like sun rise.  But it is the moon.

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Bo-pian.  Then, with the clouds in the sky, let’s take long exposure on the trees bah…

Nice.  This is the fist time I took such photo.

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How about me spinning my torch light and in the picture?

Nice too.

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Wait, I remember I see photographers do light painting.

Let’s try it again.  Yuck!  First try.  So many and so confusing.  But the tree and the sky still in tact.

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Let’s try again with slow motion.  and fewer rounds.  OK, it works.

I am sort of learning to do the light painting on the fly.

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Let’s try to do a wing.

Oh ya, my wife is the one pressing the remote trigger.

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Let’s try again.  Wing #2.

My wife complaint.  It does not look like a wing.

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So I visualise it.  And re-do.

A chicken wing.

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So, I can actually paint anything I like.

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And my greatest art pieces is writing my own name.

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Wahahaha, I light painted my name “KEN”.

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Although there is no stars, I learned how to take light painting tonight.  One more skill to add.

 

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