Another photo dump! Not a massive one but it’s been a minute.
We’ve had a lot of snow lately, which makes the whole city gorgeous in a completely different way from fall.This view was from Goryokaku Tower in the middle of the city, overlooking the fort that it’s named after.This view was from Mt. Hakodate, at the south edge of town.Hakodate has a tropical botanical garden with a monkey hotspring! The monkeys love the water so much, some of them will wake up in the middle of the night to go for a swim!Look at that guy just swimming around!Amusingly, the botanical garden is like, 50% plants that were in our yard in Florida.The garden also had some cute birds!It’s kinda funny seeing a beach with snow on it.The snow is lovely once it’s fallen, but when it’s falling it can be……intense.Look at this stuff! And we only got a dusting compared to the rest of Hokkaido; apparently up north, it was over a meter deep!The food here has also continued to impress. Japanese food is the best in the world, and Hokkaido food is the best in Japan.This is poke from a Hawaiian place right across the street from us! It was fun seeing such a Japanese spin on poke; for example, it had as much octopus as it did fish!Valentine’s Day here is a day when women give men chocolate, so Cassie bought me this delicious little chocolate-strawberry cupcake. (I’ll return the favor on March 14th, “White Day,” when men give women chocolate.)
