Woke up a little bit earlier today than I usually do. I was catching an early train to Nagano to go snowboarding with some friends. As usual we met at the Nagano station and rode by car to Shiga Kogen.

By noon we’d had lunch and were hitting the slopes. It was snowing a gently the whole afternoon. But it was still good visibility and easy snowboamrding.

We were riding together the whole afternoon. The seven of us. 3 girls and 4 guys, 2 snowboarders and 5 loosers on skis 😉

Around 4 pm we had enough and went back to our rooms. Cleaned up in the artificial onsen (hot and outdoors but not natural), together with a whole lot of other people. Then had time to relax and talk in the room before going for dinner.

The restaurant was in the building next to the hotel so we had to walk aoutside for 25 meters. It was snowing, and quite beautiful. The food was Chinese and I had a chance to try Brian’s Sudden Death Sauce, a gift from Hachobori-san. Tasty. And HOT!!!

After dinner we all met up in the guys’ room. Drinking (sports drink for me and stronger variants of what everyone claimed to be sports drinks, though I am still doubtful ;-)). Talking. and having a fun time.