Wow.

Didn't even realise I'd made posts on this. But there they are, right below. I somehow failed to mention that that 24 hour game arcade has a pool of real fish - for fishing. You can fish real fish. At an arcade. I'm not sure what you're supposed to do with them after. Put them back in? Take them home to eat?

So I get home from Singapore and it's pretty depressing and the next day I stay in bed until 2pm (and then again the day after). I'm finally up and pottering and whatever and I can see something through the lace curtain. It looked like snow. It was!! I wondered how long I had been missing it, but I think I must have caught the beginning. After a short while you could see things start to turn white as they got covered, and they weren't white to start with.

MY FIRST EVER SNOW. And also the first snow of the year, called hatsuyuki, 'first snow'. It was so pretty, fluffy, yay! It whirls around you, so I went out the day after to catch it on my gloves. 

It never occurred to me you could use umbrellas for snow. People going out had umbrellas - genius! Makes perfect sense! Not just for rain!

So anyway here's some pics:

Hanayama from my balcony.

Compare the view - before...

...after. Not much of an interval mind you.

Some videos to come.

:)