Yamagata [3 June 2017]

i regret the choice of footwear......

so anw headed to Yamagata with some new friends, slam and adam, who we call ojiisan. they're from america, and we rented a car.

so we drove to this place, paid a toll to go up but the weather was shit. and i was in those shoes. and the wind was crazy and it was raining so u can imagine how cold. i couldn't go out **lol**. there was a rest stop up there, and i just stayed inside.

my jacket has no hood.. and these guys were dressed like that to go out ok. hahahaha.i lent slam my jeans *lol* so she could go out.

sitting in the boot

this soba is over a hundred years old. it's really good and rly thick, and slightly al dente. real good texture. the menu only has soba, or soba and fish. *lol*.

u can see the black thing on a plate in the middle? it's some miso marinated fish. rly salty flavour, but i guess it's not bad.

then we drove around for really long looking for a place to pick cherries.

and we found one. actually not opened, coz the cherries not all ripe yet, but we just use our broken japanese and the guy allowed us hehehe. usually there's a time limit, like an hour and it costs >1000. the guy give us discount, only like... 500Y for unlimited time. coz v few trees were ripe. we prob only stayed like half an hour **LOL**.

but we went to many places and they were all closed/not open (yes, there is a difference b/w these two words in mathematics). so we were REALLY excited to find a place that will allow us to pick cherries. and it's really the reason why we went to Yamagata *lol*.

that's as red as they get tho. the cherries we get in Singapore, the really dark red ones? those are american cherries.

cherry picking really saved the gloomy day *lol*.