I've spent about two weeks lazily lying around because I couldn't escape from the feeling of winter holiday.

By the way, I went to travel to ski from the 14th to the 15th at Rusutsu Resort Hotel at Hokkaido.
There was a lot of powder snow, and my daughter and I had a great time.
I've heard that there are a lot of foreign visitors in the Rusutsu area recently.
Yes, indeed.

I had a chance to talk with some foreigners in English, but I lacked the courage to speak to them.
What I talked to foreigner were suggesting that I should take a picture and telling about the monorail was coming.
Ummmm.

Enough about that we skied and skied.
Although skiing on the powder snow made us tired so much, it was so amazing. There were various slopes of which compacted snow and not compacted it at the mountain. We preferred to ski at non compacted ones.
Slopes of non compacted snow had more heavier friction than another slopes had, so we often felt down in the snow and, of course, we had to stand up as a matter of routine.

Rusutsu resorts hotel has a amusement park in the ground, and we can ski in the amusement park in winter.

I was glad to make my daughter happy to take this trip.
We are going to Niseko to ski as a birthday present for my daughter in February. :)
I'm looking forward to go there from this time.

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I wish that I'm gonna go aroud all over the Japan in this year and make a lot of good friends. :)

This picture is my family's traditional osechi.
It's yummy. :)

何をどう間違った。

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This is a Japanese traditional food UMANI.

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Yammy!

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Yesterday, I went skiing with my daughter.

It does not snow much these days, due to global warming.
A few years ago, I could go skiing at an earlier time. In addition, it has not rained recently either.
I feel sad.. ;(

Anyway, I was glad to see and touch the loving snow after suc a long absense.
We went to Sapporo International snow field which is near my house.
I got up early in the morning and cooked lunch, and then we drove to the mountain.
It took about forty minutes to arrive the mountain by car. 

There were so many people who wanted to ski, and parking areas were so crowded so I had to park my car at the farthest place.
Oops, my new skis were very heavy, so was my daughter's. 

We managed to carry our skis to a ski lodge, and at last we could ski. I love powder snow! Love it!
It was minus two degrees Celsius then, but we didn't care such s temperature.
We jumped a snow hump and skied downhill.
It was amazing!

Today, I have heavy sore muscles but my daughter doesn't have any pain.
I can't complete with time but I'm going to go skiing next weekend. :)

Note: my daughter's picture