Travelog for: Scribbles

Hello!

I'm Scribbles,  I was found by my owner on Ebay and she is now letting me become a Toyvoyager so I can explore the world. I'm very interested in Art and hope to explore this subject more during my travels.

Can you help me with this? If you are interested in hosting me please pm my owner.

Thankyou

Scribbles x

Hello Japan!

Our Royal Post did it! Japan Post did it! They quickly took me here!!
So I join the party, going to Hiroshima and Miyajima tomorrow.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Atomic Bomb Dome)

Miyajima is an island located off the coast of Hiroshima.
After rain, we visited Itsukushima Shrine, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This shrine is built over the sea. At high tide it looks like floating.
When we visited the shrine, the tide was low.
I would be into the water and walk to the Great Gate of shrine, if it was summer time.


Itsukushima Shrine

Today, we go out for lunch.
This is a hot & spicy noodles with Korean taste.
And another one is called "Omu-rice", Chicken rice wrapped with fried egg.
I forgot to take pictures inside. Refer to the following link 

Omu-rice

I'm in a small park called Kikaku Koen with other TVs, about 15km South-East from Takamatsu.
It's a warm day, though it is December.
Colored leaves are still there.

Takamatsu Symbol Tower, Sunport
In Japan Christmas is not a holiday. So they go to work as usual.
Look, this is a landmark building in Takamatsu city.
At night I found a lighting Christmas tree on the wall.

Christmas deco "Tiramisu" cake!!

New Year's Day
The first nice thing on the New Year Day is receiving Nengajo - New Year's card.
Japanese custom of sending New Year's cards is somewhat similar to the Western practice of exchanging Christmas cards.
However, Japanese New Year's cards should not arrive before New Year's Day. Commonly, New Year's cards are mailed in the middle of December, and they are delivered early on the morning of New Year's Day.
2011 is the year of Rabbit in Asian countries.
Here is hanachan's nengajo this year. hanachan has Rabbit's years.


Specially prepared New Year's food, Osechi ryori is arranged in lacquer boxes.
And a special New Year's soup with Mochi (rice cakes), vegetables, etc. It called Zouni.
In Takamatsu, they use Anko-mochi (sweet red bean paste in rice cakes). It's very special one which is not in the other areas.

Traditional Crafts

Hatsumoude - Visiting shrines and temples to pray for health and happiness for the New Year

Okayama Jo - Okayama Castle
more about : Okayama Castle

Today we are in Sakaide, which is a neighbor city of Takamatsu.
From the hilltop we can see the Seto Ohashi Bridge. It is the longest Combined Express Road and Rail Bridge in the World!!

Hey, look at such lots of locks on the fence!
They say many young couples visit here and leave locks.
What they wrote on it?
One said,
"Next time we are here, maybe our baby together"
wow!

Today was exciting we went to the Calgary Tower in downtown Calgary.

We road the C-train to get there.




It's 626 feet tall.


The elevator up had a poster with more information...


The neatest part was the glass floor....


This is a new building in downtown Calgary called the Bow. It'll be 810 feet tall when it's done.


Behind us you can see the Saddledome....where the Calgary Flames Play and many music concerts play.  Also can see the Stampede Grounds where the Calgary Stampede is set up every July.


Downstairs in the tower there was a Beaver Dressed as a Mountie...


and a bear...

Today we got to get out of the house for a bit. We went to our hosts place of work. She works in a drug store that sells way more then medication. It's also open 24 hours so we got to stay out late.

Here we are playing in the freezer......burrrrr it was cold but it was ice cream so that was okay.


Here we are helping the merchandiser put out products and empty boxes.


Here's some yummy candy from Canada...


Lastly I got to help count the money for the day.


Its been raining here so hopefully it stops soon. If not it's going to be more inside pictures.

Bye for now!!

We got to go to a real Roller Derby Game!!!  It was the Thrashin' Lassies against the B52 Bellas.

Here we are at our seat with our program...


These are the Bellas.  See the girl in the wheel chair? She broke her ankle at the last game.


Here are some Lassies.....




It's hard to get some good pictures because everyone is moving so fast.


In the end the Lassies won 219 to 102.