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Jamie.
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The thing I looked most forward to in my Japan Trip was to have a hot spring bath. Everytime on Japan Hour, when I see those Japanese always go to those so beautiful hot springs, with all the natural surrounding and especially during winter time, is always so so beautiful! So when I was really going to Hokkaido and my package actually includes hot spring, I was overjoyed!!! The first hotel I stayed I already started asking for hot spring but they don't have and only have spa. Spa is not natural hot spring and it's like those Singapore's spa and I don't want that! I want to try natural hot spring!!! I've already found out so many information on Japan's hot springs, the way to bath and really enjoy and make full use of the hot spring water!!! I don't want to go back disappointed. The next hotel was also a spa hotel and I am really getting desperate!!! Only on the 3rd day, at last! My first natural hot spring!!! Yeh Yeh!!! That evening, straightaway after putting down our luggages, hubby and I quickly went to this outdoor foot hot spring!!! Guess what, it's so HOT!!! Hhahhahaaaa... really not used to it but lucky it was snowing at the time we were doing our hot spring. The hotness really make our whoe body warm and doesn't feel the coldness from the snow. Such a good experience. After dinner, we went straight to their hot spring. Of course you have to rest first, at least 45 mins to 1 hour after meal or else it won't be good for your health. There are 2 hot springs, man and woman. It's located at the top floor of the hotel and the hotel's name is 洞爷胡。 It's so nice!!! Okay, let me explain the procedure of the Japan hot spring. Heheheee... First you must get naked with all the other women all around, and don't worry, nobody will look at you. :P You will see all ages of women too, and I actually heard that children can also go to hot spring!!! Hehehee... Next you will bath in a common area with open cubicles, with chairs or stools for you to sit while bathing and I really like that. Remind me of childhood time when mum will bath for me. Heheheeeheee... You really have to bath thoroughly as Japanese don't like you to dirty their hot spring water if your body is not cleaned properly. After bathing, you can slowly go into the hotspring. And I really say slowly means slowly. The normal degree of a natural hot spring is 40 degrees!!! And that is really hot for a first timer. I actually sit on the side first with my legs in the water first, trying to get used to the heat. Then I try pouring water with my hands over my legs and try to get it higher and higher up my body. Next I try to sit down in the water but body is still not inside the water. After a while more, then I started to move totally into the water. It's damn hot at that moment!!! But I try to overcome it and once you overcome it, it's really shiok man!!! But after only about 5 mins, my heart starting pounding very fast and I know I must get up liao. That's actually the normal time for the first timer. You can stay in the water for too long or else you'll faint and that really happened to one of my tour mate, so if really can't take it don't force yourself and you really must do it slowly. You will need to rest for about 5 mins then you can dip in again. This time I tried the open air hot spring!!! It's much much better than the enclosed one as maybe due to the natural air outside and it so cold outside, the hot spring is not that hot (or maybe I'm already used to it) I can actually dipped in for a longer time about 10 mins. Heeheehheee... I wanted to dip it longer (seeing all the other Japanese who can stayed in the water so long, why can't I? :P) but my heart started pounding again. You see the hot spring's heat is so good to your body that a scientist actually find out that the heat will actually go all the way into your bones and not like the normal heat which only go into your skin. And for me, as my circulation of my blood is always very good, it actually heat up all my blood and make them flows so fast that my heart has to be so busy pounding them!!! heheheee... but it's really very very shiok lor. Everyone should really try that. The only pity was they dun have like couple's or unisex's hot spring then I can go with hubby, then not so lonely liao!!! ^_^ Anyway, I love it so much that the next morning, before breakfast, I actually wake up earlier to enjoy the hot spring again! Best of all, I've even seen sun rise at the open air hot spring!!! Such a wonderful feeling and it's so Japan Hour!!! ^_^
After breakfast, we actually went to one of their famous seafood market and have a look at their seafood. Their varieties are so different from us! All their crabs are so big!!! And see, they actually sell live octopus!!! First time I've seen one!!! So interesting and cute!!! This one I actually "help" it before I took this photo. Heheheee... One of its tentacles actually falls out of the bucket and I actually help it to put it back. (Actually I just wanted a feel of how octopus feel like :P) But while helping it, it actually suck my finger so tightly that it was quite pain after it!!! The suction plate on the tentacles are so powerful and I didn't know it! The pain was there even after 15 mins! Now I know how it catches it prey and boy, can they suck!!! ^_^
But, heheheheee... after that I got my "revenge", or sort of lah. :P I actually managed to eat a black ink ice cream. It's actually made from the squids' black ink. It's not a real revenge but that's the octopus's relatives, so still counted!!! :P Anyway, the taste is, errr... quite unique... not too bad... lucky they put more milk than ink and there's only a slight ink taste of squids but the ice cream is greyish and I like that colour!!! heheheheee....
Furthermore, the wind is so so strong and poor hubby have to find ways to take this beautiful photo and it's the only one that turn out to be perfect. I couldn't even stand in the wind for more than 5 mins then have to go indoor (there's a building at the hilltop) and poor darling have to stand in the wind to take this photo, and can only take it by putting it on the top of a partition to steady his hands and the camera!!! If not, your camera will be blown away!!! HEheheehee... But all is worthwhile... see nice nice right? ^_^
First encounter with the huskies, my first thought was "are they fierce and will they bite?" But to my surprise, they are so friendly and actually let me touch and play with them!!! Oh!!! I love them so much!!! They are so happy with their surroundings and longed to run freely in the snow!!! This is totally different from the husky we see back home, nicely groomed yet look so tired. These huskies look so alive and excited!!! I almost wanted to go on the dog sledge just because of them, but will they be able to take my weight? :P I think I better not, and it's so expensive, just 1 round cost about SGD50 bucks!!! Better just take some photos with them and just tell everyone we've been on it!!! 
Hehehehee.... Hope no one will find out!!! Hahahaaa...Anyway, we have a lot of our "first time" here at the ski resort; - our first snow-tubing, our first encounter with the "original" huskies, our first snow-rafting (couldn't have any photos on that, you know why? so sad that on the second day, my stupid camera charger was gone!!! Just couldn't charge my camera anymore!!! Of all time, to spoil on a trip!!! Hate it so much!!! But thanks to technology, our handphone are equipped with cameras and therefore still not so bad!!! Heheheee... some of the photos we took are actually using the phone cameras, can you tell? :P Anyway, we have 2 batteries for our camera so really have to save the batt for the total trip of 11 days!!! And guess what, 1 of the batteries actually did last until after the trip!!! hahahaaaa... 
all thanks to our saving of batteries!!!), our first encounter with the pros of skiers and snowboarders (they are so cool!!! I couldn't take a picture of how steep is the hill because it is really damn steep and we were forbidden to walk to the edge!!! It's almost like 90º degrees!!! But the best part was we saw a kid about the age of 8 who actually went down the hill!!! OMG!!! So pro!!! My hubby and I actually tell ourselves that by the next time we come back, we want to be able to do that, too!!! Hehehee... hope that dream will come true!!!), and the most important of all, our first encounter with the high-tech toilet bowl!!!
HEheheeee... As you can see, their toilet bowl is equipped with so many gadgets at the side, and man! are they are really very useful!!! First, as it is winter time, so the toilet bowl is automatically heated up with a heated toilet seat so your buttocks will not catch a cold regardless whether is it a big or a small business you are doing. Second, it's equipped with music or natural sound, in case your "poo poo" or "she she" is too loud or you don't want people to hear whether you are doing big or small, the music will also automatic come out, either with water flowing sound or bird singing. Thirdly, if you run out of papers, no worries... just press a button and your bottom will be cleaned so thorough that you don't even need to wipe it anymore (I've tried that and it's so good!!! ^_^) Hahahaaa... if only we have this toilet bowls, and boy, do the Japanese know how to pamper themselves...
The next stop we went to is Asahi Beer Refinery, one of their top beer in Japan. It's so amazing to see some dept. with no people working in it, at the most is just 1 to 2 persons. It so high tech there as everything is all compurterized! They are so depending on their robots!!! The only department we saw with the most workers is in their QC dept, with only 5 workers!!! hahahaa But lucky the tour guide from Asahi is human and see, so kawaii!!! hahahaahaa...
The first time I see a live volcano and it's so beautiful! Just cannot imagine it bringing all the disasterious things when it's "angry"! :P But there's a funny smell in the air like someone who keep farting! Heheheheee Anyway that's the smell of the sulphur that is good for our skin that I'll be dipping in the rest of my trip!!! Hahahaha... Hot Spring, here I come!!!
This is my first meal in Hokkaido, Japan!!! See the scallop so big!!! I just loved japanese food so much that I think I can stay forever in Japan!!! But really hope every meal tastes so good (coz can't have much hope for tour packages' meals, always hear from other people that only the first few meals are nice!!! Keeping my fingers crossed again!!! )
My first encounter with snow!!! It's so soft!!! Yet if you press everything together, it can be as hard as rock!!! So happy!!! Love snow so much!!! It feels so nice and clean (although it is really not that clean, contacting with the air and dust but you see, it's so white, really can't stop myself for just scooping it all up and eating it!!! Like ice kachang!!! hahahaa) The best thing is after this stop (our makan stop) it starting snowing!!! That's even better!!! First time seeing snow falls down from the sky, it's so beautiful and soft and small!!! It's really not like those show that it's all big and round that you can see it easily. We didn't even feel it when it starting snowing and it's so soft and light and melt once it touches your hand (as your hand gives out heat) It's so amazing!!! The tour leader even says we are so lucky to be able to see snowing the first day we reached!!! But it's so cold even though I'm already in my thermal wear, a long sleeved turtle-necked T-shirt, a pull-over and my wooly jacket!!! Guess tomorrow I shall wear thicker then!!! Hahahahaaa...
Next, we went to a musical-box shop and I was so happy there. Just love musical box so much that I feel like buying all of them! But alas! There are so expensive and in the end, I just bought only 1 musical ornament. So sad!!! A bit regret now but no choice lor... ^_^
