We’re currently packing for South Korea tomorrow! It’s funny how weird it feels to be going to another country – we’ve been traveling a lot in a foreign country up until now, but this is a new foreign country, and it’s strange to think we’ll be in a whole different place tomorrow night.
But we do have a few more photos and stories to share about Sapporo!
We haven’t been doing too much too crazy; mostly just enjoying the incredible food and the snow. We did go to church on Sunday, which was good – but in a very different way than the churches before now. It was really interesting how, while it was a very friendly church with very welcoming people, we were just, like, there.
The churches before now have each felt like, I dunno, a sigh of relief. Meeting up with old friends and family. We’d go out to lunch with complete strangers and be chatting like we’d known them for years. But now that we’ve found our new church home in Hakodate, we don’t need that anymore or something, and so visiting other churches is back to just being visitors. That’s not a bad thing, and it’s not a knock against the church we visited; I think it’s actually a really nice confirmation that we did indeed find our new family in Hakodate.
As far as food goes, we’ve actually been hitting up some of the favorites again rather than branching out; we got soup curry again tonight, and we went back to the same burger place we’d been to already last night (but we of course got different burgers). It really was fascinating to see American food done simultaneously so well and so differently; I got a spicy salsa cheeseburger, and Cassie got a mozzarella burger with this creamy vinegar sauce that I still don’t know what it was, but it was fantastic.
And then during the day today, it was finally clear, so we got to do an observation tower. Except, why just go up a tower, when you could instead go up a Ferris wheel?!
It was a fun way to get really high – we were higher than one of the observation towers in the area. We were also both surprised to see all the mountains so close; deep in the city, you can’t see any of them!
We did a little bit of last shopping for the flight – some snacks, and Cassie got me a PS Vita as an early Christmas present – and that’s about it!
Next time you hear from us, we’ll be in South Korea! Here’s hoping there’s no massive political upheavals while we’re there!