At 8 am we were on the Shiga-kogen shuttle bus to one of the gondolas. We were off to yet another beautiful day in the slopes.

We were skiing and snowboarding together until around 11 am. Then Everyone but me was exhausted and wanted a rest. I continued to snowboard for another hour when I met the other for lunch. They hadn’t moved at all.

When I finished lunch I got out to the slopes and the sun again. The other continued to rest. I enjoyed the slopes until around 2 pm when it got cloudy. From then I did not enjoy it as much but continued for another hour before returning to the other. Still at the restaurant where I left them.

Actually they had moved. About 5 tables. But now they joined me in my effort to get back to the hotel.

At the hotel I had time to take one last bath. It felt nice after a day’s snowboarding.

At 5:17 pm I was on the Shigaden bus bound for Nagano station. And Mash-san and C/o was jumping and waving me off outside the bus. Some people inside the bus laughed. I was not one of them.

Saturday morning at 7:28 am. I am onboard the Asama Shinkansen bound for Nagano. I spend the 1 hours and 30 minutes it takes to get there to read.

Outside the gates I meet Satoko-san. Together with her and Shimizu-san Kuma-san drives us to Shiga-kogen where we meet Mash-san and Hachobori-san.

First this we do is to get into our ski and snowboarding gears. And get out to the slopes. The white snow. And the sunshine.

We continued skiing and snowboarding the whole day. And enjoying the great snow conditions, yesterday Shiga-kogen got 10 cm of fluffy snow. And of course enjoying the good weather.

In the evening we had dinner with about a million other people at the hotel. Shabu-shabu. Quite yummy. Though Chie’s shabu-shabu with Jimmy and Emma (a few days ago if you remember) was more yummy.