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I had the most marvellous all-Japanese week-end. Check out the picks! I guess I don't have to say more!

Short update!

Hey everybody!
Wanted to give you a short update on what I have been up to recently.
Last Saturday I went with 菜都子ちゃん to the 未来館 ("Future-Museum").



I want to especially draw your attention to that green spot in 菜都子ちゃん's face. That's here always very cold nose. The only bodypart that is even colder are her hands (they were blue!). And now I have the scientific proof for that!!!!
After the museum, I had my first しゃぶしゃぶ　(shabu-shabu). とても美味しかった！

Unfortunatelly I didn't bring my camera when I had yet another cultural experience at the Kabuki-Theatre in Ginza. But I can tell you that it was a very interesting experience. But without the English explanations on the earphone I wouldn't have understood anything. How am I supposed to know, that when the dancer flutters around with his fan in a specific way it is meant to express the first love of young women???? And I would have very much liked to show you a video of the "headbanging" of the lion ;-)
Yesterday evening I met with Alex in a Bar in 六本木.

On the way home, I was really amazed by his navigation system with a 3D view of the route!!!!!!!

北海道

Last weekend, I flew with

on board this

to Hokkaido, to visit the Snowfestival in Sapporo. When departing I was able to shoot a nice picture with Fuji-san in the background.

As expected the temperatures were around 0 degree celcius. But Japanese women don't seem to care about that in the least.


Some of the snow and ice sculptures were really impressive.








I was a little schocked, when I ran across this shop:


But of course I also tried local specialities:


My favourite highlight was the olympic ski jump arena:



Most schocking was what Japanese people do to the German language sometimes:

Don't have much time.

I am kind of busy recently. So this time I will just write a few short comments in English.
First of all I want to present you a very sophisticated vending machine:

Next is an impression of a カラオケ-session held on last Friday:

There are other videos, that are longer and were recorded after we had drunk a little more. So I am sorry but I can't upload them here ;-)
On Saturday I went to Hakone with Natsuko to go to an "onsen". As I didn't feel it to be save for my camera, there are no pictures. But I can assure you that it was much fun and very relaxing. I had never bathed in coffee, green tea, red wine and several sorts of other crazy stuff before. But I have some pictures of the lake to which we went before going to the onsen.




The last two pictures are of a huuuuuuuge "toboggan run" that we passed by. Thus of you able to read Japanese will easily figure out that it was not exactly cheap either.
On Sunday we had a little more snow so on monday I ran across some quite good snow sculptures on Hongo Campus.