Day 11

Day 11 (May 17) Home from Hakodate:

Today we came home (to the Uchida's) from Hakodate. We ate a huge buffet breakfast and walked to the tram (trolley car) station. At the station nearest to our hotel there is a public hot spring foot bath. Mel, Hidemi and Karen all took off their shoes for a hot soak. This would have been soooo nice on our 12 hour Tokyo day!
We hopped on the train for a 3 hour train ride back to Tomakomai (Uchida's home town). I caught up on some of my blogging, but we didn't have internet on the train so I have to upload it when I find a wi-fi signal.
Mama-Uchida picked us up at the train station and had a HUGE feed of Japanese curie waiting for us. It was a great feast, even Karen liked it, she doesn't usually like curie, but this is quite different and less spicy then the Indian version.
After dinner, we sat with the Uchida's and watched a bit of Japanese baseball and had some Sapporo beer. The Uchida's are so kind and giving. They even gave Karen a stack of toe-socks. She was thrilled, I imagine Karen will have a suite-case full of socks after this trip!