Making Pizza at a Cooperative Farm & Goofing Around

Yesterday we had a lot of fun doing what I think we both love most about living in Hokkaido, meeting new people and enjoying the great natural beauty of the island.  Now that the snow has melted we have limitless options in terms of hiking and adventure and we are trying to pack in as much as we can before we leave.  After an intense game of Monopoly on Friday night (which was interrupted by our friend Jim who crashed at our house after a night of drinking in town [more on that later]) we got up early and went to a cooperative farm to make pizza.

All of the ingredients we used had been harvested on the farm, even the flour for the dough and the sausage and bacon topping.  These guys even dug clay out of the ground and made there own clay oven.  It was a really cool place and it was difficult to get Chrissy to leave.  After making and devouring a million pizza pies we took a tour of their farm and saw their pigs, chickens, and goats.  Pigs really are kinda cute, I can't say I have much affection for chickens though, and one goat wouldn't stop smiling at us.  We played with our friend Alaina's children which made us miss Gianna and Marco even more than we already do.  We can't wait to get home and see everyone!!!

After the farm we took a drive through the mountains where we saw a fox that looked like he was spawned from hell.  Creepy looking animal, all grey and muddy with these dead grey eyes... kinda unnerved us a bit.

Then we wondered over to our buddy Jim's house where we helped him discover the "tattoos" Christine wrote on him when he was passed out drunk on our living room floor the night before.  Thankfully he wasn't too mad!  We took Jim along on the last part of our journey and goofed around in a campground near his house.  We are excited to camp there when the season starts because it's on the top of a high bluff overlooking Jim's town and the ocean.  It is clean, close, and beautiful.  We snapped a bunch of fun pictures there and even practiced some sword fighting.  We have a great shot of Christine that should be the poster for the next Karate kid movie.