A Sweet Time !

When I finished work today, one of my co-workers said to me, "N-san(a security man in our office) gave me a cake. It's not one piece but big round cake. I can't eat it by myself. Do you wanna eat it with me? ”
I love cake very much, so I said " Of cause !! I'll eat it!"
We went to a resting room and opened the box. It was chocolate cake with many strawberries.
It smelt sweet.


Each of us ate 1/4 piece of cake. The sponge was so soft that it melt in our mouth right away.
The 1/4 of cake had gone in an instant. So we both ate the remaining 1/4 piece of cake each.
After all, we ate a whole round cake only 15 minutes.

I thought our appetites was terrible, but we spent a very happy time together.
Thank you N-san!!

Chou a la creme of Coal in Yubari !!

On the way home from Tomamu, we dropped at Yubari city.

I ate 'Coal Chou a la Creme' there. It was black creme puff.

I felt very strange at first glance, but the taste was the same as usual one.

Tomamu Resort

Last weekend I went to Tomamu. It's very famous for resort area.
There are high-rise hotels there and expensive.

We didn't stay at the expensive hotel, but stayed very cheap hotel.
We could stay there only for 3000 yen per person!! It was very economical!!!

Farm Restaurant 'HARVEST'.

Last weekend I went to a farm restaurant 'HARVEST' in Naganuma town. It was a restaurant of natural ingredients. I wanted to go there because it was very popular among my collegues.

Many fresh vegetables were there.
It was delicious, and we ate very much and we were full.
We were satisfied very much.

Ice Festival in Sounkyo 1

Sounkyo（層雲峡） is one of the most popular tourist spot in Hokkaido.
We can enjoy marvelous sight every season.
Above all, Hyoubaku festival(氷瀑まつり) fascinates everyone very much in winter.
All these statues are made of ice.
They are build by water of river streaming for about one-month.
At night, the statues are illuminated beautiful colors.



When I went there, the temprature was
-12℃. How Cold !!
The winter sky was so clear that fireworks were sparkling brightly.
I felt the winter fireworks had a charm of these own.

Penguin's Walking

The most famous zoo in Japan is Asahiyama Zoo.
It is in Asahikawa in Hokkaido.
In winter season, the zoo has a special event.
It is "Penguin's Walking".



Over 10 penguins take a walk into the zoo
for about 45 minutes.
They are as large as small children about 2 years old. They are unexpectedly large !!
They walk like a toddling baby with their flippers opened.
It is a heartwarming scene.

Cheese Sweets in Hokkaido !!

Today, I introduce you two kinds of sweets in Hokkaido to you.
These sweets are containing cheese.


←This is Kinotoya's "Rakunou Cheese Pudding".
　（'rakunou' means 'dairy farming'.)
　This tastes both cheese and pudding.
　It's very soft and feels good on the tongue.




This is "Furano Yukidoke Cheese Cake".→
('yukidoke' means 'melting snow')
It is a gelatin cheesecake. Whipped creme is on the cake, it's like snow.
It has rich taste of cheese, but not heavy.
When you eat it, it melts on your tongue.

Where has it been ???

Last spring, I lost my pass holder on the way to the office. In the holder, there was a subway pass left for one week, and a prepaid card remained about 8000 yen !!. I reported that to the police at once, but it wasn't discovered. I was very disappointed. After all, the year ended and I forgot about it.

Recently, a postcard from a police reached me. It read, 'We keep your pass holder. Come to get it to the police.' I was astonished.
At the police, they said it was handed in at new year holidays. But I lost it last spring. Where on earth had it been until then ?

Of course the subway pass is no longer valid, but the prepaid card has not been used since I'd lost it!! I felt a bit of luck !!

MOCHI CREAM !!

The other day I went to town's shopping mall, STELLAR PLACE.
Many stores were having a clearance sale there.
I bought a few discounted clothes at comme ca store.

After that, one small shop in a cafe caught my eye.
It read "MOCHI CREAM".
It was a rice cake(containing cream) shop of Cafe COMME CA ISM.
There were many colorful MOCHI CREAM in a glass show-case.

I bought 6 kinds of MOCHI CREAM.
(from the upper left, red-sweet-potate, cafe-au-lait, royal-milk-tea, passion-orange, caramel-pudding, and cream-chocolate)


←Caramel Pudding

Red Sweet Potate 　　→


I like passion orange taste the best of all.
There are 24 kinds of Mochi Cream. I want to try them all !!

Snowbording at Teine Mountain !

Today I went snowboarding for the first time in this winter.



I went to Mt. Teine.
Some Olympic ski events were held at this mountain in 1972.
Five colored circles as olympic symbol were still remained at this lodge.




The temperature were -6℃ at the mountain. It was not too cold for snorboarders, and weather was fine. There were not so many people because it was weekday, so I enjoyed snowboarding to the full.



I felt the clouds were very beautiful. They were sunset color.
So I pressed the shutter of my camera many times.
But when I came back home and checked my pictures, all clouds were not sunset color.
Why? My camera didn't work well? I wondered.
Finally I found, I'd took those pictures wearing orange goggles !!