Day 9- 25th December X'Mas!! Curry is House.... courtesy of eh.... some company in Japan

Cold wind sneaked into the room and froze me awake. Dang.. no wonder, the heater was off. Wait....Woke up late!! Oh no!! 11 am.... so rude to have slept till so late. Japanese may wake as late as 8 but mine was unforgivable.

The housewife still greeted the 3 of us politely, felt quite guilty as the foods were already prepared.
Sandwiches and the leftover okonomiyaki and takoyaki from the party. Even realise the tea wasn't cheap, adds more to my guilt. Didnt dare to make a sound, not even a word during breakfast.

Today we went shopping, at Apita... again. But this ones located somewhere else. Daniel want to check out more swimming gears for his fellow national teammates.

We saw a few funny stuffs in Apita, can't recall what were they. The main reason.... we forgot our camera 6(._. )*scratch head*

Head off to the Niigata museum. There was a mini exhibition about the old retro toys they used to have and so are old day animes and the really old films of it. Astro boy was one of them.

Then goes a spiral stair way all the way to the 3rd floor with its walls full of Niigata history up to the recent earthquake during mid year 2007.

even got to know how artificial snow makers work, and also the snow fall cases in Niigata. It was suppose to reach a height of 3~4 meters . And cases of electrocution (as villagers leave through the first floor and trip high voltage wires) happens.

But the snow thickness has drastically dropped over the years to 70~80cm max. Next to the museum is a food centre where traditional Niigata foods are sold.

We get to eat a green tea dango with red bean paste in it. Was really nice. And awkward enough, we are chinese and we ate chinese food before... we somehow ended up in a chinese restaurant ._.

Well, at least its a no shoe restaurant where u gotta take of your shoes at the front door. And theres a drink bar where if u order a drink, you get to refill anytypes of drink there. So is the salad bar XD

Got back to Haku San jinja and rest. Coz we got asked to follow to the tuition centre again.
This time we had a conversation with 3 high school kids in english. Most of them are just self introduction with QnA.

Played poker cards again which is the sign of one thing... Times up for the tuition to end. alex says the kids were pro in playing the japanese card game.... but the outcome was, Hong pawned them all, 4 in a row. i came in 3rd most of the time.

Got back home around 9.30 pm. To our surprice, miss Reiko (Ikarashi-san's sister) prepared curry.. Japanese Curry. It tasted so nice~ T_T I wanna eat again someday.

I remember I ate 5 plates of it... thick faced I was. Chatted with the Ikarashi till late night and still can feel the curry before falling asleep. And I just realised theres an altar next to our room. So soothing to look at it.