Once
showered and dressed we went down to the best breakfast buffet I have
ever seen and ate in front of a large window with a view of a snow
covered garden; gorging ourselves on bread, waffles, fruits, eggs,
bacon, french toast and yoghurt.
But no
time to rest as we head to the station, not before Maki takes a
complementary sauna while I pack up our wonderful gifts. We meet
Maki's friend at the station to send us off and board our train to
Niseko. On the train we eat an assorted sashimi-don bento while
watching the Narnia like scenery whizz by and taking time out to
start watching 'The Great Escape' on my iPad (It is Christmas
after-all and never seen it all the way through).
We
dropped our stuff at our hotel, grabbed our rented skies and headed
to the slopes for our lesson. The
ski lesson was good with a slow start as dusk set in and the flood
lights came on, lighting the slopes with a beautiful glow; soon after
which a bit of a blizzard set in, giving us a little challenge for
our first lessons. But we did well and learnt a lot.
We
returned to our new hotel and a buffet lunch including roast beef,
more sashimi, tempura and loads more food than we could realistically
eat. Once our stomachs had been sufficient filled with all the great
food, we retreated to warm our aching muscles in the hotels outdoor,
mixed onsen; a hot bath surrounded by a winter wonderland, cover in a
thick blanket of snow.
Splendid.
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