Thursday, January 8, 2009

Skiing in Iwatake

Above Katsura and Waka in red are ready to go down the hill on the top of Iwatake ski area.  I was inside watching Nami with Jack and the boys took their wives for a few runs.  When Ka-chan came in to relieve me she said she was afraid to ski another round as she would then not want to stop!  She is actually a snowboarder but we didn't have equipment for her and she wanted to try skiing.
Here we are all posed on top of the hill.  We took the gondola up to the nice lodge on top and from there we coud enjoy good snow conditions on several lifts.  The bottom of the gondola area was pretty short on snow.
After and before.  When we came this snow man greated us at the minshiku (small family run inn where we stay every year) Above was what it looked like as we left!  I had to kiss it goodbye.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Vicki.. happy new year!!! Glad to see you enjoying the winter months.. we just might get snow this weekend..

goooooood girl said...

your blog is very nice......

Viki in Chiba said...

Thanks, sure was nice. Had some tiny problems but I'm kind of keeping them secret! Wow now it is out there for the world to see! Mystery?