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[4am-sorrow]

🖤🖤🖤🖤Nobody gives a shit if you're sad🖤🖤🖤🖤

[psyentifically-minded]

Some speculate that some dinosaurs may have survived even up into modern history, this is not impossible as crocodiles and sharks have done the same. Proponents of this theory point to Mayan architecture (pictured above and middle) appearing to show dinosaurs or the alleged Inca Stones (pictured right) which are widely believed to be hoaxes and appear to depict scenes of Inca peoples co-existing with dinosaurs. There are also a wide variety of historical accounts of people claiming to run into similar creatures including Pterodactyls and other large extinct creatures. Some suggest that the globe-wide mythology of dragons may trace its roots to surviving dinosaurs if not their remnants. Lake monsters such as the Loch Ness monster are also reported around the world and seem to resemble Mauisaurus, while reports of massive squids such as the Kraken of the Norweigan deep could relate to surviving Tusoteuthis. It is much more likely that ocean dwelling dinosaurs would survive and remain undetected than their land or sky dwelling relatives however one of the most intriguing cryptid reports comes from the Congo in Africa where skilled tribesmen capable of identifying all if not most of the surrounding wildlife tell tales of fear and loss at the jaws of a large lake dwelling creature resembling a long-necked dinosaur known as Mokele-Mbembe - “He who stops rivers” (pictured lower centre). The Hebrew accounts of the monsterous creature Behemoth describe it as having “a tail like a cedar” which has lead some to believe it is a description of a long-necked dinosaur.

[traveladventurespart6]

We passed a police station (pics 1-2)!  Right now, we’re driving near the windmills again (the ones from yesterday).  

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We’ve moved down to a less crowded lower viewpoint. The fog is slightly thinner down here. If you listen closely, you can hear the wind (it’s suuuuuuuuper windy!).

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Our first store!  Aren’t all the kids' souvenirs just adorable (pics 1-2)?  The main area of the store looks like it’s mostly food (pic 3), and the wall closest to the street looks like more stuff for kids (pic 4).  I headed straight to the back, though, because it looked kind of like a pop-up area.  A lot of the stuff on the big table has to do with Hakodate Prison, like bags and wallets (pic 5), and cellphone cases (pic 6).  On the wall to the side, there are purses that are just Japan-themed (pic 7).  You have no idea how tempted I am to get one of the Hakodate Prison book covers (pic 8).  They have a large and small size, too.  However, I’m sure they would only fit my Japanese manga and, unfortunately, not even I can rationalize buying a book cover just for my manga.  Oh well.

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Back into the bath we go?

After finishing dinner, we all headed back to the locker rooms in the baths.  I thought we were going back to change and was halfway dressed when I realized that Tomo-san had undressed and was ready to go back into the bath!

This time, we only went into the outdoor bath and stayed for maybe 10-15 minutes.  I got to take a closer look at the rocks lining the edges and really wished I had my phone/dictionary with me so I could talk to Tomo-san about them in Japanese!  I think they were igneous (they may have been metamorphic, but the lighting wasn’t good enough for me to tell for sure).  Many of them looked like they had some really nice cleavage (a type of planar feature in igneous and metamorphic rocks), and it seemed like the cleavage was primary (mainly found in igneous rocks) rather than secondary (mainly found in metamorphic rocks) because it wasn’t uniform across all the rocks.  I definitely saw quartz veins and biotite, and maybe some olivite.  I didn’t see any feldspar, but two of the rocks had that blueish sheen that plagioclase feldspar gets when it undergoes metamorphosis.  

Anyway, what I mean to say is that they were really pretty, and I wish I’d had a magnifying glass and better lighting to get a closer look at them.

Oh yeah.  And the bath was really refreshing, too.

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Everyone gets their own private room for dining!  Well, the doors (which are totally awesome looking, btw) have open areas in their design, which I imagine is so that the servers can hear you if you need them for something.

Or maybe it’s so the servers can make sure guests are *cough* behaving *cough* themselves?  >.>