Day 5 - 9 Dec 09

We were excited as we set off to the Ski Resort at Hakodateyama.


The bus ride to our destination. We were the only group on bus..majiam hired coach specially for us.

Though it's suppose to be a tourist attraction, the posters are in Japanese. It was not helpful when the counter staff also barely speaks English. We were like chickens and ducks and finally the staff paged for a guy who was more proficient in English to help us. If i remembered correctly, we were there for at least 1hr before we finally bought the tickets.


Finally bought the tickets and we were taking gondola lift to the ski site.


Renting the equipments and gear.


Fully geared! Ready to go!


The kids enjoyed the day here...playing snowball, sliding down in the snowboard or just blissfully lying around.





Picture perfect!




The nice guy in yellow jacket was the "life safer" that helped us to buy tickets from the counter in the morning.


Simply love the coffee/tea and corn drink from these vending machines in Jpn. You see these vending machines everywhere and we buy it at least twice a day.


We found a nice cozy set up that serves grilled food over charcoal near our hotel. Nice way to end the day.