30 October 2016
Pre halloween
Halloween and curry in Sapporo
Halloween is tomorrow, Monday, or was it Friday and Saturday? No its tomorrow, but theres about a million halloween people out posing for photos tonight.
I am a little disappointed in the quality of the costumes though, nearly everyone is a zombie, a wizard, a zombie wizard or perhaps those things plus also a witch. Usually in a miniskirt with angel wings regardless, because Victorias Secret I presume.
I did not stay out very long, over 50,000 steps today, enough to earn me another curry. It is also 1 degree, so I spent much of my time underground where there isnt much cool stuff to photograph.
Now just imagine for a moment, the top today was 4 Celsius, and currently its 1, in the city. It snowed in the city in the morning. This temperature and snow is not unusual for this time of year. Consider now that October is like April in Australia. Its only going to be colder for the next 5 months. December, January and February often have days where it goes below -20, and the city gets 6 metres of snow per year.
Consider that next time you complain that its only going to be 12 in Australia for a couple of days in July.
I find this hotel name to be very amusing, but very fancy.
The original dumbo movie was on the disney channel when I left this evening, my only English channel except BBC which in prime time overdubs live Japanese translation anyway. So to celebrate, I took a photo of dumbo, who is wearing a halloween hat.
Sapporo has big boss as well.
No truer sign.
This guy seemed particularly embarrassed as his friends took his photo, so it was great amusement to them all when I joined them for photo taking.
Look closely, he is carrying what appears to be a real flick knife!
Redundant photo of the ferris wheel I went on the other night. It occurs to me I only took photos whilst on it. Still, no one wants to see a ferris wheel.
No one wants to see my curry either, but I dont care. It was nice and spicy. I loved this shops touch screen ticket vending machine to order, it had English, and the ability to add side dishes and choose spiciness. I picked a side salad which as always has an ice cream scoop of ice cold mash potato.