September 21, 2016

September 21, 2016

Well....I told you I was looking forward to a slower day today and that's exactly what it was.

This morning was a leisurely buffet breakfast in the lobby of our hotel where the choices included both western and Japanese and the only thing we had to do was be finished by 10:00.

Everyone had gone their own way today so Darlene and I made our way down to the 100 yen store (our very favourite shopping place) and believe it or not managed to make quite a dent in our wallets at a dollar store!  They have so many cute little gadgets here and the selection is enormous and the quality is really very good and yes....items really are just 100 yen (= $1 USD). The last time I was here either the yen was lower or the CAD dollar was higher but either way it worked out to be about 100 yen = $1 CAD so the deals at the 100 yen shop weren't quite as good as last trip but they're still good enough to get excited about. :-)

After we'd pretty much blown our budget at the 100 yen shop Darlene and I hauled our purchases back to the hotel and put our feet up for an hour or so before we headed out again.  This time we were off to Odori Park and the Autumn Festival where there are about 10 blocks of food stalls and vendors displaying the harvest of Hokkaido.  We wandered the festival from one end to the other and stopped often to sit and people watch along the way.  It was just us and about 100,000 of our new best friends in that park....what a busy place!  We also managed to find something that caught our fancy for dinner so enjoyed a flaky pastry that was wrapped around ham, cheese and onion along with a glass of Sapporo beer.  TASTY!

By the time we'd made it back to our hotel I was done for and so it was a pretty early night knowing that the next day would be a long one.....so long in fact that it would last for almost 48 hours!

Till tomorrow....sayonara for the last time from Sapporo,
Lorrie and Darlene