Thank you

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Good morning! It's a snow day - first snow

day of the season! I'm here with Sarah

and Alex and Jordan and we're here for

work in Aomori Prefecture today. All

of a sudden it just started snowing a

lot! It's a blizzard outside. It's so

windy, pray for my little vlogging camera

outside in the snow. We'll see how it

goes. But I want to bring you guys along

because it's super exciting to finally

see some snow this year! Here we go, going

outside

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Oh okay it's not too bad

It's not as windy as it was earlier

which is wonderful

It's so crunchy

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Probably should have worn boots

beanie gang beanie gang

toque we call this a toque in Canada!

Oh really? Do you know that word? No. "Toque"

Thought it was like a face mask or

something

Are these little moss gardens?

I love them

They're so cute

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I wonder how easy they would be to take

care of

How cute would that be if you put like a

little

totoro

gatcha or something in it? Oh so cute.

So we're at Oirase... oh there's snow on my

lens

We're at Oirase Gorge right now, which

I've only ever been to in the summer and

the fall. This will be my first time

seeing it in the snow.

Apple juice

Sharla: So, Aomori is famous for their apples. You'll see tons of apple souvenirs while I'm here.

Sharla: But I always love grabbing some of their pure apple juice. It's so delicious.

Sharla: How good do these donuts look?

Sharla: What is that?

[speaking Japanese]

Jordan: It's this.

Sharla: Oh my God, oh, it's a little apple. What do you do with it?

Jordan: You just- Sharla: You just eat it?

Jordan: Just hold it. Sharla: You just hold it?

[laughing]

Sharla: That doesn't sound fun.

Sharla: It says you can eat it like sherbert.

Sarah: Should we get one of those as well?

[speaking Japanese]

Sharla: This is apple tea. Apple Hōjicha. Roasted tea.

I didn't expect it to be sweet, but it smells like caramel.

Oh my God, smell that.

Sharla: Still waiting for the tea to cool down. Can't drink it yet.

Sharla: Why is it so hot? It smells great though.

We're down at the Gorge now. This is the

place that I've come to so many times in

the summer and in the fall

but look at it in the snow.

The trees in the background are so pretty.

Sharla: Jordan's having so much fun. Jordan: I'm having a good time!

Sharla: He loves the snow.

Jordan: The snow is attacking my hair and I'm taking it personally.

Sharla: Sarah seems to think that licking icicles is a thing.

icicles is a thing

She's determined.

I can't?

no.

no.

It's a national heritage.

just lick it on the rock.

So can I- can I lick it on the rock?

no....

oh your tongue will get stuck

no...

and it will be very funny

no..noo...

we're at the famous waterfall of oyadase

gorge it's called kumori notaki

definitely took some photos here before

in the summer in the winter apparently

it almost completely freezes over and

looks really cool but i think this is

the first snow of the year so it's not

completely frozen yet but still looks

pretty epic

Sarah got an icicle

*Sarah softly crying in joy*

She finally got her icicle :')

Is it as amazing as you thought it would be?

It's so dirty!

*Sarah and Sharla laughing*

oh just gross

*more laughter*

Yay~~

*Sharla singing* Lunch time! Lunch time! :D

We've come to a, uh,

local restaurant that's right on the

lake so there's a really good view of

the lake outside but it's just

this big storm at the moment

the waves are wild for a lake it looks

like an ocean

but we're nice and cozy inside and we're

going to be having some nabe

i have a tofu vegetable nabe a bowl of

rice salad and some pickled veggies and

tofu it's a really good lunch

Wait do me a favour,

can you eat that green thing tell me what it is?

The green thing, isn't it a green bean?

Is it a green bean, and like, miso?

with goma-ae

probably

we are about to go exploring inside

Towada shrine, which looks SO beautiful

in the snow i feel so lucky that it

snowed today it just looks absolutely

gorgeous with the cedar trees and we got

some amazake which is my favorite winter

drink they only have this in the winter

season because it's a it's a warm cozy

drink it's kind of like the hot

chocolate of japan when it starts to get

cold they sell this at the shrines and

it's just absolutely delicious and it's

probably

relatively healthy for you it's made

from fermented rice it is a little sweet

so they probably do add a bit of sugar

to it but i do recommend you try it out

if you come to japan

but yeah let's go exploring into the

shrine it looks so pretty

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so at night time they're gonna light

this up and we'll be we'll be back here

at night but it's really pretty in the

daytime as well because you can see all

the huge cedar trees

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*chatter and laughter*

I like it!!

It's a fig tree!

That'll be pretty tonight

Right?!

um also this was under renovation last time I came

This looks so cool in the snow!

So yesterday we came here with a guy,

and he told us an interesting fact about this tree,

that's uh it's made out of plastic

*laughs*

can you believe this guy??

he ruins everything

*laughing*

you get out of here sir!

look at this!

ah cool!

this is so nice!

so earlier when i was getting amazake

there were these cute little footprints

on the ground i thought they were cat

footprints and then i looked closer at

them

there were too many toes to be a cat

so i looked it up and apparently it's

probably an amaguma i don't even know

what that is in english

but they're pretty wild looking i've

never seen one before

i was talking to the locals in the shop

and they said there are quite a few of

them around here

so maybe we'll get lucky and spot one

that would be so cool

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Are you ready for the grand finale of our Towada trip?

We are headed to.. festival....?

Festival Luce!

*laugh*

it's a light up of the shrine that we

we were just in, it looks so colourful and pretty!

wow~~~

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don't walk that way!

puddle :)

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this music's intense

*loud intense music*

it's like there's a good challenge coming up

yeah right?!

wow

so you've come this way? Stop who goes?!

*laughter*

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look they have a light up of the footprints i found earlier

still haven't found the animal yet

maybe there's one down here

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alright!

weeeee!

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I love this sort of thing

wow!!!

it's so... *at a loss for words*

wow the music's just like

*laughter*

we're heading up to the very top now

to see what they've done with the shrine

should be pretty :D

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oh....

avengers?

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oh that's cool

so, I think the projection mapping tells a story of.....

how the- how the shrine was made like

the birth of like the area

does it?

yeah so

the tour guide was yesterday so it's

going to be like a big battle between

is that a dragon?

yeah like a, yeah! It's like a dragon

a good god an evil god it's a big battle

and it like

they're showing the effects of it in

like the uh

in the mapping

it's very interesting but

the thing is like the start of it the

gates opening and such but there's lots

of like water elements to it because

obviously water dragon god thing

right

all right guys that's it i'm gonna wrap up

and go back to my hotel

and have a nice warm bath and thaw out my fingers

they are so cold i hope you guys enjoyed

spending the day in Aomori with us and

I'll see you again very soon

bye for now!

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