What a busy couple of weeks! A friend of mine from the land of Oz (Christian) came to visit me in Tokyo. It was great to see him again and we had heaps of fun!
First, we went to Hakuba near Nagano March 12 and 13. We spent the weekend attempting to snowboard (I have to say I think I spent more time on my bum than on my board!) but we had a good time. The place where we stayed "Luna Piena" has great breakfasts and dinners and the best service ever! AND it's a mere 5 min walk to the chairlift at Happo ski/board resort. I had such a great time that I'm going back there for a week-long snowboarding holiday at the end of March.
After our boarding weekend (Nursing many bruises and sore muscles) we returned to Tokyo... Christian did the self-guided tour thing during the days and I proceeded to work hard all week. After that, we both still managed to go out shopping and dining most nights (not a bad effort, hu?)
I introduced Christian to the wonders of Japanese cuisine including Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes) and Yakitori (various chicken skewers). We found a fab Italian restaurant with the very Italian name of "Ole, Ole" and had great Indian food and even went to an Irish pub for dinner and a pint of Kilkenny on St. Patrick's Day!.
My kids had their school concert on Thursday. They did the most fantastic job. I was so proud of them, I nearly cried!
Christian led me astray and FORCED me to purchase a snowboard set... I have to say it IS super nice!!
On Saturday we went to Disneyland. It was fairly busy (It's a long weekend here) but we managed to get on some rides and have a good look around. We ended our day with a ride on Splash Mountain. I managed to get the wettest of everyone on the ride and still managed to look perfectly calm (almost comatose) in the photo... so I decided it was worth purchasing!
Then on Sunday I sent Christian off home... waving goodbye as his taxi disappeared into the sunset... I hope I told the taxi driver the right place to go!
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