on the third Morning, I awoke at 4:50am Japan to find the sun already up and shining, in my silly state, i decided to go out for a walk, whilst my dear family was still snoring and snoozing away. It was actually quite cold, and wanted to walk somewhere to perhaps find a nice warm coffee, unfortunately, the japanese were not as insane as I was, and at 5am, nothing was open yet, and the myth that the Japanese sold all things in vending machines did not hold through in our area, there were no warm drinks in the vending machines, believe me I checked! .. but it was a nice walk I walked and I walked, and after 2 hours, managed to get to Otaru, this 2 hour walk would have been a 6 min train ride. But it was a nice walk, just the Lord and I, and some reflections along the way. Saw a church too, it was actually a Sunday morning, and we were wondering if we could find a church to worship in.
Here's some evidence of the time and the temperature.. =P I think I was just wearing a pullover .. =P heh
What a lovely morning it was, by the time I finished the walk it was around 7am, decided to take the train back and head over back to the room. and from there, we went to Sapporo for more sightseeing, it was nice just walking ard town. Oh I must add that we also went to a Chocolate factory area, which was very very nice, the buildings were v. castle like, and Elijah enjoyed the flowers a lot and the space as well. He was running around in the gardens and having lots of fun. It was a joy to see him enjoy himself.
we also went up to Mt Moiwa, which was supposed to have fantastic views of the city of Sapporo, however, just getting to the place was an adventure in itself, the ropeway ( we would call it cablecar) was on top of some very high up place, and pushing a pram and carrying a bag, wasn't the easiest of tasks, and what's more, when we reached the place to get the tickets, we realised we still had to climb up these ardous flight of steps that seemed to go on forever, there was no elevator (pronounced quite triumphantly by the ticket counter girl, who looked on pitilessly at us, as if we should have known better than to bring a little baby with us up to this mt Moiwa). Well, after all the climbing, and the close to death/exhaustion episode, it was a little better after, admittedly the views were beautiful and very very majestic. Again, just reminding us of how great a God we served, both a creator and our saviour.. =) However, the decor a little lacking, a little more development would have been welcome, it would have been a wonderful place to have a nice warm cafe, overlooking the views of the city, but alas, nothing of that sort existed or looked like it would existing, it was a bare roof, overlooking the view, and below that, was a musty tourist souvenir shop, selling souvenirs that tourists (ie, us ) did not feel any faint sense of attraction toward. But well, it was a nice warm shop, which a welcome from the blasting winds on the roof above. Note the attires that we were in.
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