Ski lesson

The Hudson Family, staying with us for 3 days are from Cairns, Australia.
Today they went on a skiing lesson with Kasadake ski school. They had good weather conditions, with the snow turned ice (from the rain we had over the weekend) turning back into snow by about lunch time.
They did very well their instructors said, and they even went all the way to the top of Yokoteyama. By the end of the day I would imagine they would be enjoying their much awaited hot spring time.

My parents stayed for 4 days here.

My parents came over for 4 days stay for my birthday.
I received a snowboard and binding set for my birthday, I now have 3 weeks left to use it as much as I possibly can before I finish up here.
Today they were going back to Tokyo before making their way back to Australia.

I taught them both how to snowboard, which was pretty funny to start with.
They did however go home with brusies all over them, thankfully no borken bones!

Thanks muchly Mum and Pete.
I know you will be reading this!!

Sunday the 8th at the Snow village

We went to the Snow village on sunday night.
There was fireworks, food stalls, snow slide and also a outlet market.
At 8:30pm there was also a raffle and the first prize winner had the choice of a ski set or snowboard set. The winner chose the snowboard set!

The night ended at around 9:30pm with Meg and I buying around 6 crepes from one of the food stalls before it shut and we went home!
It was a very good night

Snow festival

The snow slide is nearly finished!
This is one of the enjoyments you can have at the snow festival, along with fireworks on the 7th 8th and 14th of March.
There is also a outlet market and food stalls during this period of time.

Shuttle bus services are avaliable to and from the snow village on the 7th, 8th and 14th of March ONLY

Japanese Elementary Ski Comp!

Ski competition held at Nishitateyama.