Upon writing this post, we are back on the plane to Tokyo as we have finished our ski leg of the trip. I’m sorry for the delay in the post, it has been so difficult to update on a daily basis because snowboarding all day has been so exhausting mentally and physically.
Day 4 of our ski trip and I was really keen to get out with the rest of the group to see what I have learnt through yesterday’s all day snowboarding lesson. Getting up after being meat tenderised has left me feeling sore all over, especially with my neck muscles from smacking my head on the ground so many times.
Going higher than the Ace family run (baby slope) got me a bit nervous as I was still very shaky on the board and was dead scared from stacking it again! But I persevered and hopped onto the Ace pair lift which went about a quarter of the way up the mountain…
Getting up top and looking down the slope was absolutely shit terrifying, but I knew if I kept to the basics of heeling or toeing all the way down I can still make it. It also helped that the higher you went, the more powdery the snow was. It was great that the ground was a bit more forgiving when I constantly face planted during my decent. I can tell you now IT IS A LOT WORSE THAN IT LOOKS!! Hahaha…ouch my rib cage bruise!
After a couple of runs of the ace pair, I felt more and more comfortable and could feel myself improving with every run down the mountain. Lisa eventually came up to the ace pair lift after a few more test runs of the family slope. Nancy buggered up one of here ankles and also her knees from slipping on ice, so she chose to stay at home for the day to rest up. Orla and Young were ‘Bus driving’ as Mike and John call it down the same run as they were also practicing what they learnt in their day lesson. Mike, John and Chucky decided to ditch the rest of us to go higher and higher up the mountain to chase softer snow.
Orla at the top of a run.
We all met for lunch at a really nice restaurant that was only around the corner from where we stayed. ‘Fuji’ is a nice traditional Japanese restaurant where you sit at low tables on cushions. For me it was so awkward and sore, especially after sustaining a tail bone bruise and constantly having to transfer the load from one cheek onto the other. The meals were absolutely awesome! The sashimi in our set meals were so fresh and everything looked so nice and delicately placed that it just made you even more hungry looking at it. I had the pork katsudon which was like a 100 times better then the rubbish you get back home…this was the real deal and boy did it taste good!
Lunch at Fuji
My Pork Katsudon..mmmmmmm!
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