Day 66

Today we thought we’d have a bit of fun and go to the horse races for the day! Morioka which is the city we are staying in has a racecourse and there was a big event being held today-some national cup so we thought it would be a fun day out.

It was almost impossible to understand their website and neither of us could work out a way to get tickets in advance so this morning we headed to the station and went to tourist information. The lady was very helpful and pointed us in the right direction for the shuttle bus that goes there. Arriving we queued up for tickets and accidentally bought reserved seats as we had no idea what was going on or even what our options were! We ended up ditching the seats so that we could sit outside on the grass by the track which was so much nicer than being sat indoors! It’s so strange lots of people had set up camp indoors and were watching the races purely on the screen inside which seems a weird choice when it’s happening 50ft from you!

Managing to find a shady spot we settled in for the day and enjoyed the races. It’s a very different culture here no one cheers or shouts for the horses so it felt very strange! I sort of ended up half whispering “come on number 10” or “you can do it number 11” it was quite amusing.

Now we couldn’t for the LIFE of us work out how to bet in the venue it was so complicated but Jacob managed to download an app which we could bet on and at the end of the day we had broken even so I’m happy with that!

It was really amusing that to mark the start of a race they would blast a fan fair tune through the speakers it sounded as though a royal procession was about to start every time!

We stayed for about 7 races before taking the shuttle bus back to the city. A really fun day out and made me quite nostalgic for home as it’s a thoroughly enjoyed activity in the Collins’ household!

P.S. photos taken by Jacob as I was much more interested in if we were going to win or not hahah!Baca selengkapnya