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To create

Joop — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:38:43 +0000

I have finally enrolled in a floral design (beginner) class and looked what I have done in my first class.

I hope no more flowers that i got from flower market would go to waste anymore. Today’s lesson is on point.

I turned these…

into these after 2 hours of labor

how could 6 weeks go by so quickly?

Joop — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:20:01 +0000

our 6 weeks holiday finally ended and we are back to an oven called Hong Kong…almost couldn’t breath the moment we came out from the airport…

but I did miss my bed a lot and slept the best in weeks…

2 people, 1 dog with a fj in 19 days

Joop — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:46:19 +0000

After 4714km we made it back to Vancouver…we didn’t do much planning but to drive along west coast until we hit San Francisco. The coastal cities are very very pretty and the food in napa valley was simply delicious. My first camping experience was also very pleasant and excited too haha

I really didn’t know where to start writing about this trip so I guess i will hold this off until I am back in jul.

Somebody had too much fun and gotta catch some zzZzz

In the middle of a big roadtrip

Joop — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:43:37 +0000

Passed washington and Oregon and made it to California, 1400km later…

More to come…

Day 7 – time to say goodbye

Joop — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:03:48 +0000

Yet again we went to the fish market but beside indulging in our last sushi paradise experience we were determine to bring back the goodies. Ended up buying 3kg of king crab, 2 melon and a box of tri color asparagus. In time of mothers day we prepared 2 boxes of tummy snack for the moms but only my mom could enjoy it as it’s prohibited to send any type of food into Canada.

Day 6 – sapporo

Joop — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:24:56 +0000

Today we mainly stayed in sapporo and again we went to fish market for brunch. Then we headed to a little shop which I discovered while reading the ??camera magazine. The shop is all about film camera and they have a photo developing machine. Spent us$20 to develop a roll of film which it comes in a very interesting format.

But today major discovery is the little cafe in the same building. I love everything about it and I wish we have sth like this in Hk.

Later went to a huge stationery shop and went CRAZY in there. I think it’s way better than tokyu hand!! It’s called central and it has 4 storeys of arts and craft stuff!!! I got myself some stamp carving materials and some paper craft stuff.

Then we drove outside of the city and landed in the newly opened outlet. It was huge but i for some reasons don’t do well in outlet situation and ended up getting stuffs for my nephew only. But I did have a super yummy icecream.

And the highlight of the evening is the baseball game. Went to Sapporo dome to watch fighters vs lions. I love love love watching live sports. Thanks b for taking me to the game. But an unfortunate woman got hit by a baseball on her nose that nite and ended up leaving on a stretcher. I guess paying attention is the key when balls are flying around over 100km/hr.

After the game we went to susukino for the ramen street. Still very yummy! And lucky us we found some bating cage along the way so ended up doing some swingig ourselves.

What a day!

Geotag testing

Joop — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:23:57 +0000

Arriving yvr safe and sound

Day 5 – yoichi

Joop — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:43:13 +0000

Today all we wanted to do is to drive toward otaru to find some nice daily onsen.

First we stopped by a fish market for brunch and the two main components were uni and toro. Afterward we headed west up to otaru but we ended up going into yoichi. On the way we’ve reached some very nice scenery: a horse barn, a dam and birdeyes view of otaru. After driving half way toward kutchan where our beloved niseko is, we arrived a very nice resort called kiroro. The onsen facility was great and love the lounge area for resting after.

Afterward a slow drive back in town. Some shopping at stellar place then yakiniku dinner to wrap up th day. It seems traveling is all about eating nowaday haha

Day 4 – sapporo

Joop — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:14:35 +0000

Nothing much happened today as we spent quite some time driving back to Sapporo. The weather has suddenly turned and the expected rain finally came.

In the morning we went to the science museum to fool around as there wasn’t a single English translation. It was kinda fun to be playing with all those little science projects intended for kids.

And before we headed back we pulled over randomly to an old small ramen joint. To our surprise the ramen was the best we had for the whole trip. At least asahikawa had something to offer.

By the time we arrived, it was already late afternoon. I spent an hour searching and booking table but everywhere were full! Ended up going to zen shabu & sukiyaki which we visited in previous trip. The highlite for today was to see some friends out of the blue. Thanks to the power of facebook, I got hooked up with sunny & Wincy who were also in Sapporo. The convo started the day before we left:

Wincy: hey wanna watch a movie?
Joop: going to hoikkaido, let’s meet up after.
Wincy: we are going on wed too! How long will U stay?
Joop: cool!! I will still be here. will come back to Sapporo for dinner.
Wincy&joop: yay!

World is getting smaller now

Day 3 – furano

Joop — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:35:25 +0000

Going to furano have 2 motives: to check out lavender products and to have some farm fresh stuff.

Some yummy stone oven baked pizza at the cheese factory

Lavender icecream…too gimmicky for my taste

My first cheese

Farm fresh milk

We drove to the highest onsen place in hoikkaido – tokatidake. The view was breath taking. The onsen was muddy red so I am guessing it has lot of iron mineral in it.

On the way back we played some moonlit driving range. Very romantic haha

Had a very good yakitori dinner back in asahikawa. Too good that I forgot to take any picture. I love local restaurant.