Wednesday, June 25, 2025

22 June 2025 Sapporo: After the Park


We finished the art park just in time for the bus to arrive.  So we hopped on and rode to the train station.  When we got to the track there was a train waiting for us.  I stepped in just as the alarm bell started ringing and the door slammed into my arm.  I stumbled onto the train, the doors closed and Leslie was left in the station.  The look in her eyes a WTF Fritz classic.  I thought back on our emergency planning and got off at the next station knowing Leslie would get on the next train and I would then meet her at the next station.  Leslie went over to the train on the adjacent track and got on that train.  It was going the same direction and behind her, two women also got on the train.  They found the entire episode quite amusing and they were having a good laugh.  Once that train reached the station where I was I looked in the train and I saw Leslie right away.  I also saw the two ladies laughing.   They recognized me and when I boarded they laughed even harder.  Yippie, disaster avoided! We walked through the park and enjoyed all the flowers that are still there.  All that art appreciation made me hungry so we shared some "Long Potatoes" 



Only men with hats may use this crossing


A butterfly net or a net for tadpoles?


Odd looking industrial building


Maybe a rock plant or a cement plant


The train station, time is of the essence...


More flowers and public art


All alone on the train!


Waiting for Leslie to catch up


She is laughing!


The ladies that came to Leslie's "rescue," even the bag is laughing 




So many mishaps could happen in the train station


Japanese fashion


Love the roses, we had to stop and smell them


Another lost robot


Hello, yellow


Lavender colored 


Tucked away in a corner were the expensive orchids


Esqusite


Very long French fries


A deconstructed slide


And dressed up dogs



   It has been 3 years and 17 days since we began our Migration