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[noahawatersiii]

This past Sunday was a special night for a worthy cause. Premiere of “MERITxZOE” film, in partnership with @gotyour6 / @bwforg / @themissioncontinues / @everytown, at the Hollywood #AmericanLegion #Post43 Starring @haskiri @hellomorgandixon and #TuckerSmallwood. Written/directed by fellow veteran and @vmeconnect member @kylehausmannstokes. Thanks for the invite @assialauren See the MxZ trailer: @meritxzoe.film Follow @meritxzoe.film for updates and screenings. (at American Legion Post 43 - Hollywood, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CddqZi-r1U1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[4am-sorrow]

🖤🖤🖤🖤I'm not meant for this world.🖤🖤🖤🖤

[psyentifically-minded]

The time of the dinosaurs would come to an end after the coming of the cretaceous-paleogene extinction event. There are several theories about how this came about. One insists that volcanic activity suffocated the majority of earths creatures and stripped the land of plant life and oxygen required to sustain larger creatures like dinosaurs, a similar theory suggests that the ending ice ages lead to a large scale escape of methane gas to the same effect while yet another suggests that herds of large plant-eating dinosaurs produced enough methane to suffocate the planet. Other causes suggest that a meteorite the size of Manhattan struck the planet causing great devestation and terrible elemental effects such as storms, volcanic activity and tsunamis alongside a gassious shroud which stripped the earth of oxygen suffocating most life before initiating an ice age which cold blooded dinosaurs could not survive. Another theory suggests that food shortages and famine or the spread of plague were to blame. Proponents of the “Ancient Astronauts Theory” speculate that the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs may have been a landing or crashing spacecraft which may have bought alien or humanoid crew and begun the process of reteraforming the earth. In any case, the result of this extinction level event was the death of the dinosaurs paving the way for the eventual rise of mammalian life.

[traveladventurespart6]

On our way back to the entrance, we did some exploring.  We found a manga reading room and a karaoke room with an ancient karaoke system.  I thought it was really cool how the hotel (yeah, turns out that the place was a hotel) map was etched in wood.  

I wonder how old that place is...

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We’re at Mount Hakodate!  It’s a big mountain on one edge of the city and has a giant viewing platform/tower.  The view from up here is considered one of the top three night views in Japan.  

We drove back to the hotel and took a taxi here.  I couldn’t understand what the taxi driver was saying, but he seemed really knowledgable about the place.  He kept up a steady stream of talk the entire drive and Tomo-san and Ken-chan seemed really interested.  He was also really nice, too!  He even walked us to the entrance when we got here so that we went the right way.

As you can see, it’s really overcast.  It’s super windy, too, and I think it’s also supposed to start raining later.  However, even with the clouds and the wind, the view is so pretty!  My phone camera just can’t do it full justice, although it gets about as close as you can get without having a special lens.

Sorry that some of the pictures are a little blurry.  It’s really crowded here and the wind is strong enough that gusts will make my arms move when I’m trying to take a picture.

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Souvenirs purchased, it was back to the car and onward to this cute little harbor-side shopping street.

The houses in pic 1, which we passed on our way here, really intrigued me.  One is entirely built in a style reminiscent of Victorian, whereas the one next to it is Japanese-style on the first floor and turn-of-the-century Western on the second floor.

Pic 2 is just the street while we drove to the harbor.

I also got to see my first Starbucks (pic 3)!  I want to go inside and see if they have a You Are Here mug for Hakodate, but Tomo-san and Ken-chan don’t seem too interested.  Lol.  Oh well.

Pics 4-5 are just of the beginning of the shopping street.  More to come!

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I think I’ve taken more panos today that I have since my trip to Japan last summer.  But there are just too many pretty things to take panos of!  Not that I’m trying to say I’m a good photographer (I’m very much aware of my point-and-shoot tendencies), but doesn’t this kind of look like a postcard?  I tried really hard to get the stairs centered in the frame (no easy task for a pano, I tell you!).  Either way, I think this might be one of my favorite pics so far this trip.

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