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I love Sapporo. I'm totally moving here.
Okay maybe not, but today was pretty good. Went to Hokkaido University in the morning and found the statue of the "Boys, Be Ambitious" guy, and wandered around campus for a while. Came back here, got lunch at the hotel buffet place. It was good I guess but not particularly Hokkaido-like, but the free meal ticket makes up for that I guess. Hung out in the room writing for a bit, then went to the Sapporo Dome.
(I dunno, EVERYONE gets their photo taken by this statue.)
Turns out that you can't go to the observation deck at all on the same day as baseball games anymore, but whatever. I wandered around the Dome, talked to a bunch of people, took a ton of pictures, watched a great game -- Fighters won 5-1 and Kazuhito Tadano pitched 7 innings with exactly ONE runner during them. He's awesome. It was a lot of fun being in the outfield stands of course, and I even met a couple who had been at Hillman's Hangout last night and came up to me during the game like "Hey, I saw you yesterday, didn't I?" Turns out they're also from Tokyo. Crazy!
(The people from Hillman's Hangout.)
It was a major clusterfuck getting HOME from the Sapporo Dome, and I was disappointed that I couldn't get these blue Hokkaido jerseys I really really want, but other than that, pretty good day. And I have two MORE days of this coming up! Wheeee!
Only one downside is, I have a bunch of bug bites on my back and I canNOT figure out where they came from. Maybe Sunday sitting on the ground at Lotte Urawa stadium? But why wouldn't I notice them much until now? Scarier would be that either insects got into my apartment since I have the sliding door open at night for cool air... or if there are bedbugs in the hotel here :( Well, we'll see, I guess.
(I dunno, EVERYONE gets their photo taken by this statue.)
Turns out that you can't go to the observation deck at all on the same day as baseball games anymore, but whatever. I wandered around the Dome, talked to a bunch of people, took a ton of pictures, watched a great game -- Fighters won 5-1 and Kazuhito Tadano pitched 7 innings with exactly ONE runner during them. He's awesome. It was a lot of fun being in the outfield stands of course, and I even met a couple who had been at Hillman's Hangout last night and came up to me during the game like "Hey, I saw you yesterday, didn't I?" Turns out they're also from Tokyo. Crazy!
(The people from Hillman's Hangout.)
It was a major clusterfuck getting HOME from the Sapporo Dome, and I was disappointed that I couldn't get these blue Hokkaido jerseys I really really want, but other than that, pretty good day. And I have two MORE days of this coming up! Wheeee!
Only one downside is, I have a bunch of bug bites on my back and I canNOT figure out where they came from. Maybe Sunday sitting on the ground at Lotte Urawa stadium? But why wouldn't I notice them much until now? Scarier would be that either insects got into my apartment since I have the sliding door open at night for cool air... or if there are bedbugs in the hotel here :( Well, we'll see, I guess.