HOKKAIDO 北海道

DAY 0

FERRY

12,13 August

 

 

and the  trip to hokkaido starts~!

We decided to take ferry because the plane tickets were too expensive.Our ferry tickets costed 12500 yen (rm500). Usually for that price we could have gotten pretty decent rooms but as it was peak season....                     

We picked the cheapest! We picked the lowest class of all class that existed! And....

 

.... this is what we got for rm500. An empty room enough for 12 strangers to cramp together. No beds btw! Can you imagine?? All we got was some stiff green blankets. But the room's quite wide and while its definitely not luxurious, it was clean and comfortable enough to spend the night.

You have to admire the sense of safety Japan has to offer. Though we had to stay with strangers, we totally had no fear or whatsoever of having our belongings stolen.

  

Some of the stuff we did while we left our luggage, money, cameras out in the room in the open as we roamed around the ship.

yes we are very 'xien kong' ppl... with 20 hours on a ferry/ship, what else can one do besides polishing one's take-pic-in-front-of-mirror skills

ah yes... we can go check out the sea... we are on a cruise after all...

hmmm oh... bo-ringg... You've seen one sea, you've seen them all. Within 10 minutes we got tired of the sea and resume our photo taking session.

The ship had a sailor's outfit hung at the receptionist for 'xien kong' ppl like us to try on.

How my 20th birthday was like:

About 15 mins after we got on the ship, 12am came along and.. its my birthday!

Pui San brought out the cake she baked for me in suprise. Really happy she waza2 baked it for me.

Its really such a pity that the knife she brought over to cut the cake was later confisticated during security check when we flew back by plane though =). 

Spending my whole birthday day on the ferry was kind of similar to how I spent my 19th birthday in Singapore. Without internet and sms thus without receiving wishes and bday congratulations, you sort of lose awareness that it's your birthday.

and tada~~~

 

this is one of the first view we laid our eyes on WHEN we finally reached Sapporo札幌 AFTER an hour of bus ride from  Otaru 小樽port WHICH our ferry finally reached on 13 august, 8.25pm.

How Jia Jie's 20th birthday was like:

Jia Jie's bday 14th August, so we stayed up till 12am and sort of celebrated his birthday.

haha Look at his half dead face. A mama's boy having to eat potato chips (which he refered to as rubbish) for his bday... how sadddd.... nvm.. at least you get to spend the rest of your bday with everyone from ppktj later in the afternoon...