Monday, October 20, 2008

Grape-Picking

After the meal, we took a short look around Hokusai Museum where Ayako showed us the shops that line the alley. We saw a beautiful origami shop that used thick Japanese paper. I especially liked the white paper dolls on display.
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Looking around, there were so many fruits for sale at a very cheap price compared to Tokyo.
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Then we had chestnut ice cream under the gigantic mangrove shade.
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Afterwards, we headed off to pick ourselves some grapes from Sorimachi Fruit Farm orchard along the fruit farm road (a tourist favorite stop).
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Given a basket and pruning scissors, we walked up and down the orchard looking for grapes we wanted. We weren't grape experts but its best to assume that the darker the grape the sweeter it tastes.
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Then we would eat some of them at the tables under the shade of the grape orchard. It was fun and made the grapes taste sweeter under that beautiful ambiance. Next time I eat grapes, I'll take myself back to this memory under the orchard.

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