Day 13

Day 13 (May 19th) Sapporo:

Today we took the bus into the city of Sapporo. The bus ride was about 1 1/2 hours. It was nice to see the "country side" of Japan. I was surprised at the wide open areas and all the farms.
When we arrived in Sapporo we did the typical tourist sites, the radio town, the clock tower and the Sapporo beer factory. The beer factory was the original factory, but not the one with the tour unfortunately. We still got to see the history of the beer and some old artifacts from the original brewery.
We didn't get to spend a long time in Sapporo unfortunately, but from what we saw the city was beautiful and clean. Mel and I went to a curie shop while Karen and Hidemi ate Oyako Don (Sapporo has a specialty version of this dish with salmon roe and salmon on rice). Karen likes the eggs on chicken on rice version better.
Then we took the bus home and ate with the Uchida's. Mama Uchida decided it would be funny to serve me beer in a 1 litre mug... so I had 2 :-)