New sisters, Niseko and Harajuku get ups...
Hmmmm...
sorry it's been a while since an update...I think instead of putting photos up here I'm going to add a new photo page... so go here for the photos that fit the text...http://www.3littlepenguins.com/photos/japan/1/index.html
I'll try and be brief as i am feeling so fat from all the goodies that people bring to the hotel for the staff and need to workout...it's a Japanese custom to bring a gift when you are going somewhere...usually a gift full of sugar and fat...i just dont understand how Japanese people can remain skinny!!
So Misty (aka my step sister for billing purposes) and Ferg came to visit and stayed for 3 nights at the hotel...It was fun shooting the breeze and having some people of like mindedness around for a bit, Ferg and I went snowboarding at Hatoriko, we braved the trees, me ending up with a bruised hip from a misjudged turn...ooops...we also had dinner together on the final night in the refectory where Khan works which was nice, followed by a quiet drink in the executive lounge (newly opened) where the dress code is even stricter than the refectory (dining hall), very expensive cocktails are downed and cigars are puffed in quite decadent surroundings...
Then we all left the strange surrounds of Little Britain all bound for Tokyo tho Khan and I chose the cheap skate way via the bus while we waved Misty and Ferg off at the Shink station...Hopefully we can get to Osaka before they leave but I'm I doubt it due to the mammoth effort Khan had to put in to get the measly 3 days off we had...
Anyways, Tokyo then super early flight to Sapporo in Hokkaido and then a 3 hr busride to Niseko and the hotel we were staying at which was literally set into the ski field...the runs went down past it...coooooollll...
Our hotel had an onsen, so we thought we'd check it out...so the rundown on onsens?
They usually are seperate for male and females as you get naked...both of us were very nervous as a) we were getting naked in front of people and b) it was our first time and we didn't really know the exact ritual involved in the whole bathing in an onsen thing and c) this onsen turned out to be a sulphur one...this meant it stank like rotten egg...after gagging for a minute or so I got used to the smell and found that I had lucked out and there was nobody else in there so I could do as i pleased...
Anyways, long and short of it is that the sulphur is supposed to do great things for your skin (I got big pimples the next day) and it makes you smell like shit, literally...so no more sulphur nsens for me thanks...the smell still makes me feel ill...
I'll keep the stuff about snowboarding short as i know it's boring for some...So it was fantastic...knee deep powder, riding through the trees, somersaulting and getting up laughing instead of being broken...we rode until we could ride no more...it was exhausting work but oh so much fun...on the last day we decided we'd hike the summit as it was a nice bluebird day and there was still so much untouched powder up there even tho it seemed to be almost like a pilgrimage happening to the top with a steady line of skiiers and boarders carting their equipment up the hill as there were no lifts to the top. Of course as soon as we got halfway up the clouds rolled over and it was a complete white out...unbelieveable... we went for it anyway as we didn't know how long it'd take to blow over and it was the sweetest ride down...that 5 minute ride was worth the 45 minute uphill climb that's for sure...anyways, enuff of that...
So we're back at little britain and nothing much has changed, a couple of new people have come, makes life a bit more interesting...they're kids from a resort about an hour and a half away and have been snowboarding most of the season so we have a bit in common. Khan is now working in the pub as well as the refectory, i think he's enjoying it...We had a Harajuku party the other night (see photos on the photo page) and the poor sausage had to work but i think the seabreezes he was making me were a little on the strong size as i was paying for it the next day...If yr not sure what Harajuku is, think Gwen Stefani's side kicks...the Japanese girls (and boys) that get dressed up in all kinds of crazy clothes...you know, extreme goth, maids, fluffy animals, scary clowns anything goes really...as long as you have a theme...
It was a lot of fun and somebody has a really funny video of me falling off a skateboard in the kitchen...
Ok, it's a biggie...the mama, that's where i'll leave it for now...going to go see Khan in the pub for a bit...no seabreezes tonight tho...
sorry it's been a while since an update...I think instead of putting photos up here I'm going to add a new photo page... so go here for the photos that fit the text...http://www.3littlepenguins.com/photos/japan/1/index.html
I'll try and be brief as i am feeling so fat from all the goodies that people bring to the hotel for the staff and need to workout...it's a Japanese custom to bring a gift when you are going somewhere...usually a gift full of sugar and fat...i just dont understand how Japanese people can remain skinny!!
So Misty (aka my step sister for billing purposes) and Ferg came to visit and stayed for 3 nights at the hotel...It was fun shooting the breeze and having some people of like mindedness around for a bit, Ferg and I went snowboarding at Hatoriko, we braved the trees, me ending up with a bruised hip from a misjudged turn...ooops...we also had dinner together on the final night in the refectory where Khan works which was nice, followed by a quiet drink in the executive lounge (newly opened) where the dress code is even stricter than the refectory (dining hall), very expensive cocktails are downed and cigars are puffed in quite decadent surroundings...
Then we all left the strange surrounds of Little Britain all bound for Tokyo tho Khan and I chose the cheap skate way via the bus while we waved Misty and Ferg off at the Shink station...Hopefully we can get to Osaka before they leave but I'm I doubt it due to the mammoth effort Khan had to put in to get the measly 3 days off we had...
Anyways, Tokyo then super early flight to Sapporo in Hokkaido and then a 3 hr busride to Niseko and the hotel we were staying at which was literally set into the ski field...the runs went down past it...coooooollll...
Our hotel had an onsen, so we thought we'd check it out...so the rundown on onsens?
They usually are seperate for male and females as you get naked...both of us were very nervous as a) we were getting naked in front of people and b) it was our first time and we didn't really know the exact ritual involved in the whole bathing in an onsen thing and c) this onsen turned out to be a sulphur one...this meant it stank like rotten egg...after gagging for a minute or so I got used to the smell and found that I had lucked out and there was nobody else in there so I could do as i pleased...
Anyways, long and short of it is that the sulphur is supposed to do great things for your skin (I got big pimples the next day) and it makes you smell like shit, literally...so no more sulphur nsens for me thanks...the smell still makes me feel ill...
I'll keep the stuff about snowboarding short as i know it's boring for some...So it was fantastic...knee deep powder, riding through the trees, somersaulting and getting up laughing instead of being broken...we rode until we could ride no more...it was exhausting work but oh so much fun...on the last day we decided we'd hike the summit as it was a nice bluebird day and there was still so much untouched powder up there even tho it seemed to be almost like a pilgrimage happening to the top with a steady line of skiiers and boarders carting their equipment up the hill as there were no lifts to the top. Of course as soon as we got halfway up the clouds rolled over and it was a complete white out...unbelieveable... we went for it anyway as we didn't know how long it'd take to blow over and it was the sweetest ride down...that 5 minute ride was worth the 45 minute uphill climb that's for sure...anyways, enuff of that...
So we're back at little britain and nothing much has changed, a couple of new people have come, makes life a bit more interesting...they're kids from a resort about an hour and a half away and have been snowboarding most of the season so we have a bit in common. Khan is now working in the pub as well as the refectory, i think he's enjoying it...We had a Harajuku party the other night (see photos on the photo page) and the poor sausage had to work but i think the seabreezes he was making me were a little on the strong size as i was paying for it the next day...If yr not sure what Harajuku is, think Gwen Stefani's side kicks...the Japanese girls (and boys) that get dressed up in all kinds of crazy clothes...you know, extreme goth, maids, fluffy animals, scary clowns anything goes really...as long as you have a theme...
It was a lot of fun and somebody has a really funny video of me falling off a skateboard in the kitchen...
Ok, it's a biggie...the mama, that's where i'll leave it for now...going to go see Khan in the pub for a bit...no seabreezes tonight tho...
posted by mazspazz at
4:23 AM
4 Comments:
...I can't get your photo page to load properly....it only loads the first 6 or so and then the other pics show as broken links :-(
hmmm..you can see them now...
yeah the thumbnails come up all good now...but some of em don't link to the bigger pics...ah well, we get the idea....looks like you two are having a good time there!!!
keep posting!
cya
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hey dudes! Kingy here. Good to hear you're having a good time. Sounds like theyre workin you pretty hard though, and not feeding you much. Are you sure its a hotel and not a deathcamp?
I kid i kid...
No really, don't die.
PS i hate you guys for riding sweet powder, but dont stop writing about riding though, its sweet.
Im a slave to the dual mistresses of Job and Uni, cruel bitches they are, and no snow here yet. Wait did i say snow, i meant sheets of ice that melt into slush viva la australia!
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