Weather: about -6 deg, cloudy, SNOWING
Author: Chrissie (equally hardworking!)
Hi all, you must be wondering what happened to Day 3 and 4!! Heh heh, those posts are coming up soon, but I thought we'd start off with Day 5 since it'll probably be a short read. We've been coming back to the hotel late-ish and have been too tired (more like lazy) to update our blog! Gomen!
We checked out of our first hotel this morning and moved to our second one. I must say it wasn't much of a trek as they're literally 30 m apart!! It was a lucky coincidence as I wasn't looking forward to lugging my suitcase around in the ice and cold! I had sore muscles the first day we arrived in sapporo from pulling my 25kg bags around!
The pretty river view from our second hotel room. Our first hotel is the grey building across the street.
We didn't do much today. As it was hotel transitioning day, we didn't make any plans to travel or sightsee and decided to go shopping for winter coats until our check-in time. I think the winter sales are about to end as they've already started bringing out the spring fashion. I feel cold looking at the new spring arrivals, there's not enough material in the clothes!
We entered a few department stores, but a lot of them were way out of our budget. Then just as we were walking out of one of the stores, it started lightly snowing! We were so excited because it was our first time seeing snow actually falling and not just on the ground! Being the obvious tourist that I am, I whipped out my camera to take a couple of videos of the snow falling. The snowflakes were very small and cute at first, quite pleasant when snow is lightly drizzling. Not so pleasant when they become heavier and the wind starts whipping them about and they're flying everywhere, especially into your eyes! As soon as that happened we went seeking the comfort of indoors.
We spent the rest of the time in Sapporo Station since it has quite a few underground shopping alleys. For lunch we went to one of our favourite food basement at Esta's!! Amy had two of her favourite japanese food combined - omurice curry which was very ooishii (delicious) and I had soup curry. Soup curry apparently originated from Hokkaido so I had high hopes for it, but it just tasted like a souped up version of normal japanese curry. It still hasn't discouraged me from wanting to try one cooked in a restaurant though! I'm feeling very optimistic!
Amy found a really nice winter coat in one of the underground stores. It's very cool and she got it for a really great price on top of that, so you can imagine what a very happy camper she was!! I think she will post a picture of it up the next time she blogs to show it off, heh heh. Anyway, we took the subway back to our hotel because it was seriously snowing furiously outside and we weren't brave enough (I like to think not dumb enough) yet to walk out in that kind of weather! We are now holed up in our hotel room and using the spare time to update our blog (or in Amy's case, reading manga and taking a nap). I'll post up our Day 3 and 4 activities next!
Snow falling outside our hotel window! Glad I'm inside our toasty warm hotel room.
To me the only good thing about snow is that it improves the scenery! I found that out the hard way whilst offshore Sakhalin, Russia, with snow blowing in my face. Brrrrrrr... I hate the cold.
ReplyDeleteGood on you Amy for finding that jacket... and thanks for the pressie!