Road Trip

Today we went for a long drive to visit two Mitchi no Eki we haven't been to and get some more stamps in our book. The first one was about an hour drive north and was called Kenbuchi and there drawing point was a play area for kids with lots of picture books to look at.

The building was fairly new and was beautifully designed and made of wood. We looked at all of the items they had for sale and then sat down to eat lunch that we had brought, we also bought some cherry tomato's to eat with our lunch, these tomato's were the sweetest I had ever eaten, and were sweeter than some grapes I have had.

After eating lunch we took some pictures and then got back in the car to visit one more roadside station. We drove for about 30 more minutes and arrived at the second station which was in Nayoro. The drawing point of this one was sticky rice and had lots of different flavored Mochi, which is a smashed sweet rice.

Nayoro is where our friend Fujita-san is from. We took the kids to a park afterwards which had these huge white bouncing domes that all of the kids were jumping on, it was like trampolines built into the ground. The kids had a great time playing there.

Our next stop was to get some nice pictures of a waterfall, we drove out into the country looking for the waterfall, and on the way met a fox on the road. We stopped and he came right up to the door and we threw chips to him and took a video of him eating them.

After the short fox stop we continued on to the waterfall, it was really far into the woods, and then a short hike down to the waterfall, we got some great pictures but the bugs were horrible, luckily we brought the insect repellent. After getting some good pictures and letting the kids throw rocks into the water we hiked back up to the car.

We drove back to Nayoro's roadside station to get some gifts for neighbors and then headed back home. When we got to Asahikawa we stopped at a restaurant and had dinner before coming home. A busy day to say the least.

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Low - 55