Travelog for: Spots Leopard

Many students, Chiang Mai citizens, my host and I come to watching Sa-Liang Carrying Tradition.

After watching Sa-Liang Carrying Tradition, I go to pray the Bhuddha at Wat Phratat Doi Suthep, the temple on the top of Doi Suthep Mountain.

I used the lotus for pray.

After pray I go to photo with the golden pagoda. It is very great day for me!

Today is the Art of Ice Festival. It is the exhibition of  students in Faculty of Fine Art . The students design their ice in the different shapes. It is very interesting!

Konbanwa!
I arrived at TamTa's house just an hour ago! It's pouring outside, thunder's rolling and very windy. I'm happy I got here safely.
I met TamTa and her Sheep, and we all had a cup of tea and KitKat... Hoji-tea flavour. Hm!

I'll be ready to explore Tokyo... but now I need some sleep...

Spots

Hello!
It was nice to go out today as it was warm and sunny

We (TamTa, her friend and me) first went to Suidobashi. There is an amusement park, a stadium and a spa. Tokyo Dome was packed with people who are waiting for the day game. We hang around the spa, LaQua, and the shopping mall attached.

Asakusa was full of people!

It's one of the most popular sightseeing spots in Tokyo. There's a temple called "Sensoji", the biggest Buddihsm temple in Tokyo. The gate, "Kaminari-mon", or "Thunder gate" is gorgeous! It was also fun to walk through the front approach to the temple... so many souvenir/sweets/snack shops!

The main hall of the Sensoji.

After the busy Asakusa, we took a subway and headed Ueno.

We walked through Ameyoko Street, which is lined with numerous shops. Then we saw a statue of Saigo Takamori in the Ueno park, and the National Western Art Museum.

Oops I almost forgot! I have three more pictures for Asakusa. One is me watching interesting Japanese calligraphy. The second one is me sipping Jasmine tea in a cafe And the gorgeous Mikoshi, or the portable shrine!

Hi!
On Sep 20, TamTa took me on a trip. We first went to the Tokyo Big Sight. It's a big exhibistion center in Ariake. We took trains there. The Tokyo Big Sight is huge. There was the big Travel Fair, and we had so much fun visiting many countries booths!

In Odaiba area, we went to see some ships, had a cold drink on the pier. The ship is the first Japanese ship that went to the North Pole.

TamTa and I stayed in a hotel today. Great view from the room!

On the next day, we went to the Tokyo tower. The weather was not good... after we took this picture it started rain!

Hi Mom! I've arrived at kiskis' place safely.
I will update with photos later
See you!

Hi Mom. Sorry it's been long since I last wrote.

It's been sunny but cold. kiskis took me to her work and showed me some Christmas decorations.









They are not as gorgeous as the ones in Tokyo or in Australia but still here in Chiba, it's pretty nice, I guess. I really love this Christmasy air! Can't wait for the day to come.

Well, I will update again. Maybe with pictures with cats. See you soon!

Hi Mom. How are you?
How did you spend your Christmas? Hope you had a wonderful day.

Well, mine was good.
kiskis told me that Christmas is not the biggest holiday in Japan. She also told me that it is more like a romantic event here. Most of people spend Christmas with their bfs/gfs. If you don't have one, you spend it with friends. And if all of your friends are taken, you spend it with your family.


kiskis made Singaporean chicken rice for lunch. It was good. She cooked some chicken for dinner but forgot to take pictures. It was delicious, though....


It's not a good picture but this is the tree kiskis and her partner decorated. It's pretty small but it was nice. You can see Beatritsche in this picture. She's another TV hosted by kiskis.


This is a picture of kiskis' partner's presents. He totally loves video games. He spends so much time playing Monster Hunter 2G, which is kinda annoying kiskis. (It's a secret, though.) He shared some chocorates he's got with us and they were tasty! Can you see the cake shaped box? It's filled with little chocolates tastes like strawberry shortcake, gatau chocolat and cheese cake.

Those are kiskis' presents. She's so happy with this electronic English-Japanese-Russian dictionary.

Well, hope you had a great holiday. I'm going to post about New Year's Eve and New Year's Day next time. See you mom.

Hi Mom. How are you? あけましておめでとうございます(akemashite omedetougozaimasu). Surprised? It's Happy New Year in Japanese

Well, on New Year's Eve, we had うどん(udon, white thick noodle). People usually have そば(soba, buckwheat noodles) on that day. It's called 年越しそば(toshikoshi-soba). It's said that if you can't finish the noodles before the New Year's Day, you won't have a luck with money in the comming year.

We had udon because kiskis doesn't like soba and she is a bit allergic to it.
It was tasty and I loved it. Of course, we finished before the New Year's Day came.


After udon, we had a glass of mango sparkling wine and had a toast. It was good and I felt a bit drunk.


We saw 紅白歌合戦(koh-haku uta gassen), a tv program that airs every New Year's Eve. It was interesting to listen to 演歌(enka), Japanese country/blues stuff.

Well, I was going to write about New Year's Day but I don't have much time so I'm going to write it next time.
Hope you are having a nice day, mom! See you soon