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chattyNow Playing: nana-starring mika nakashima hitoiro
Topic: friends and vacation
at 9 a.m. i was picked up at my dorm by my friends. She and her family ( her husband and her cute little boy named kazuki ) wants me to join them on a one day trip to yamagata.
We went to Higashine, in yamagata prefecture. Higashine is famous for its cherry picking. So, there we spend like 2 hours, basically just by climbing the ladder, picking cherries, and eating it till my stomach feel like it wants to explode.. but it was really enjoyable
After the cherry picking, we went to a pickles shop. There, the owner suddenly offer us to see her kominka ( japanese traditional house ) where she exhibited some of her hand-made craft from threads. She make flowers arrangement, paintings, necklaces and bracelets from it.. It was pretty amazing i thought, knowing how sophisticated those things made.. There, we have a nice tea-break, talking with them, and coincidentally met one lady who was living in Indonesia for a while. She wore batik syal and admit that she loved indonesian wavery so much.. Which i agree. Indonesian wavery is beautiful, unique, and need to be maintained. Knowing how priceless those couture traditions are..
After that, we went to soba shop. There, i found the biggest koi, alive, ive ever seen!! i mean it.. I usually see like 45-50 cm koi, in indonesia, so big koi is not surprising me at all.. But this one, is freaking huge! its about 85-90 cm in length! and the diameter probably 25-30 cm! ITs fascinated me. And when i ask how old is that ( knowing the facts that some koi even can live more than 100 years ), i became more surprised. It is 30 years old! geez.....
When i got back, some of my friends was asking me if i would like to join a lil bit crazy adventure. And i ask, what is that? they said " its something dealing with dry ice" , which they called the dry ice bomb. Its basically done by just cutting the dry ice into pieces, putting it into a bottle which already filled with some water ( 50 % of the bottle ), and then closed the bottle properly. After several trial and error, we found out, if we throw it up in the air, it will make the pressure bigger, and then.. its explode easily. Producing large noise and echo.
Do u know what happened to the bottle? The bottle just left as a plastic crap.. I found out thats pretty fun, and maybe i would like to do it again, but only if we are in the beach. Otherwise, the neighbour will make a complaint about loud noise resulting from the dry ice bomb... We were lucky that time, that we did it in tanabata day ( 7 july ) and people think it just a firecracker or fireworks only..
