Today we spend the day in Hidemi's home town of Tomakomai. We went to an observation tower that overlooked the city. The mountain close to the city is volcanic and active, the locals think it may erupt in the next couple years and are a little worried.
Most of the day was spent shopping, for lunch we had Ramen at a famous local restaurant. We are getting very good at eating with chop-sticks, we even ate our fried eggs and bacon with them at breakfast!
For dinner the Uchida's took us to a sushi restaurant. It had a conveyor belt that took the plates of sushi to the tables surrounding the main preparation area. It's called kaiten-zushi. Since I don't eat much seafood, the chefs had a great time making steak and hamburger sushi for me. Even papa-Uchida had a hamburger sushi (his with extra wasabi). The meal was great, at the end we had a huge stack of plates. Each plate cost a certain amount, they counted your plates to get your bill. Very efficient!
Afterwards we went back to the Uchida's for dessert (we bought chocolate cake thingies that were a lot like cup-cakes with a chocolate pudding centre). Mama-Uchida also had a cheese cake that the neighbour had made for us. Wow... even the neighbours welcome us... did I mention how friendly people are?
After dessert we got into the beer. Soporo classic was the beer Mel and I got, and papa-Uchida had some Kirin (maybe Asahi) malt beer. Papa-Uchida was quite happy to have some guys to sit down and drink with. It was a great time.
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