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.