Day 2 (13/12) - Lunch, Mount Showa, Bear Farm (Part 2)
The tour was not bad, with good pacing (there was even slightly too much time at a few places). Tours of Central Japan are apparently extremely rushed though. We also had only one Chinese meal (Chinese Singaporeans must not mind Jap food).
Are menstruating women allowed into Japanese onsens (hot springs)? They'd still leak, even with tampons. And the heat might cause relaxation, which would cause them to drop out.
[MFTTW: tampons most certainly do not leak in the shower or bath. and do not fall out. tha'ts like saying if big-sized women had sex with men with small penises their penises would keep falling out.
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40 degrees is 3 degrees higher than body temp
are you saying that when women have fevers their cervixes relax
aynway
the reason why i am saying so is because someone i know went to teh hot spring with a tampon on. and it was perfectly fine.
anyway my friend in sec sch used to go swimming without a tampon even when she had her period. and it doesn't leak.
tsk tsk
........... men.
so ignorant towards the details of female plumbing]
[MFM: I am told that the reason why unplugged vaginas don't leak in the pool is because the water pressure keeps everything in. However, swimmers have to make a quick dash for the bathroom when they get out of the water.]
At all the Japanese meals provided by the tour company, we got red tea instead of green tea. I'm quite sure it's because it's cheaper.
We then went for lunch, which was steamboat. Unfortunately we had to buy a crab ourselves, as it was not included (MFTTW: man you got gypped lah. don't always go for the cheapest packages lahhh @@), and other tables got things like scallop.
Crabs
Octopus tentacles and salmon
Live crabs
Crab showcase
Me and the crab we were about to eat
I'm betting this is the original crabstick
'In a kitchen. I am prohibited from an entrance besides the person concerned'
I wonder if the Korean is as mangled
Steamboat spread
It was mostly vegetables. The stock was also very strong, reminding us of who invented MSG (my father felt extremely uncomfortable later)
Crab claws. They were disgusting raw, like all sashimi.
I got my butt wet doing these dumb poses.
We next went to Mount Showa, an active volcano which formed in an eruption in 1943.
Mount Showa
Snowmen someone from another tour group made
There was a Bear Farm there.
Bear Cubs
Biscuits were 100 Yen a pack, and apples 200 Yen for a pack of 3-4. I got one of the former.
Bear feeding
This is the only movie in which I successfully throw a biscuit into a bear's waiting mouth. I did it a few times which weren't recorded, though. Holding a camera impedes your throwing skills.
Bears begging and fighting
Bears waving
Missed biscuit
On two legs
Missed
Missed (2)
Missed (3)
Missed (4)
We could go down to their level, but unfortunately the view wasn't very good from there.
Through grille
Missed (5)
At play
Waving
Cubs running
Volcano
Snow-covered mountains
I had some Yubari Melon soft serve. I also saw Milk soft serve for the first time. They must be really proud of their milk.
"SUNTORY BOSS is the boss of them all since 1992"
I prefer: "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time"
A different light
"It only takes fingers to throw it away. It takes the whole body to clean up." (Cigarette disposal sign)
The hotel we went to for the night employed a lot of PRCs. Given how much the PRCs hate Japan, these must've been kidnapped from the mainland.
[Disinfected toilet bowl sign] "Please don't throw this paper in to the stool"
They must have a lot of PRCs at the hotel