christmas dinner

Selamat makan semuanya!

christmas at nishinomiya garden

Christmas Tree at Nishinomiya Gardens Mall

Merry Christmas Everyone

Have a good holiday!

Kobe OJI ZOO

It’s been a long time I have wanted to go to the Oji Zoo because it is near campus, and this week my friend said, she can visit it with our cultural pass ID and it will be a free pass to enter the zoo. After my boyfriend finished class, I *a bit* forced him to join this zoo tour ahehehe!

 

Well later I found my cultural pass is cannot be a free pass, but I don’t care I still want to go inside this zoo lol.

 

 

In the entrance we were welcome by flamingos, like hundred, hundred of flamingos!! and so we choose some area to go..

 

 

Like this Koala House!

Koala house also makes me terrified as I once touch koala when I was in Sydney. But yes, they were sleeping all day long, not so interesting.

 

 

To be honest, this is the most cutest attraction or animal at this time, red panda! or tanuki -in japanese- very very かわいい！！！

We stood so long in front of their area just to capture this panda, but they were so active motion, gosh cutie panda keep running and rolling, my camera and my heart die!

 

 

At bird area which so empty because this season in Hyogo and Osaka norovirus become red level. Be careful with bird guys.. So I will just post our photos, okay?! hehehe..

 

Petting area with bunnies and marmots. We are so lucky that we can pet at the last chance though with other children and couples.

 

Visiting zoo at winter season is a bit boring because animal is sleeping. Well Oji zoo is near so we absolutely will visit again at another season.

Now let’s sleep with open eyes like this alligator, lol.

 

See you again Oji Zoo!

Kobe Luminarieー神戸ルミナリエ

 

Kobe  luminarie is an annual light festival event every December since 1995. It purposes to commemorate Hanshin Awaji Earthquake which took so many losses at that time. Well these days I think it includes many feelings like an earlier christmas event though.

 

 

Walking to Kobe luminarie venue is a bit pain in the ass. It was surely a lot of people and took around 1.5 hrs to finally see the LIGHT. The venue itself is near with Sannomiya station and I recognized the venue by myself around 1 week before the event. My boyfriend suggest me to stop at Motomachi station but I insisted to go by Sannomiya because I don’t understand why I have to walk 1 station to get to the event. And later we found out the starting walk to the event was from Motomachi station. I am sulked, like, I’m not familiar yet with this kanji so why you don’t tell me clearly what you want to say, geez. But anyway, we hurry up walking from Sannomiya to Motomachi and start walking to venue with thousands of people from Motomachi.

 

 

And arrived! to the first gate of light. Gigantically beautiful lighting sculpture.

 

And as entering the venue, very big circular of light welcoming us. Well, it was so many people at that time (can you see the black head from photos? hahaha) a bit difficult to take photo as not pushing other people at same time.

 

 

A christmas chapel is build and people throwing up coins for earthquake donation, so Japanese style.

But yeah it was nice and wonderful night.