Our first excursion of the trip was to The Historical Museum of Hokkaido. We took off promptly at 9:00 a.m.
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I'll admit to you that I am a poor student when it comes to listening to lectures. All I hear is blah, blah, blah . . . blah, blah, blah, blah . . .
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and so even though our tour guide did explain many of the exhibits to us, I only have photos for you with no explanations.
I do believe, however, that the bones below belonged to a woolly mammoth . . . because it does look like Manny from Ice Age.
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