I can never understand how anyone could be hungry at 7 am in the morning. Especially when we feasted on so much food the night before! Maybe my digestion is just really slow.
Because my friends were complaining about their empty stomachs, we made it down to breakfast in a hurry for another round of eating.
This time it was Western style! Most people liked the Japanese one more as they didn't like the texture of the egg, but the IKEA scrambled eggs that I get back at home prepared me well for oddly textured eggs. It took me years to get used to it those..
The general plan for the day was to relax and sleep after breakfast, grab lunch, and then head out for another afternoon of snowboarding. But after breakfast I felt energized and didn't feel like sleeping anymore. Too bad I was the only one that changed my mind..so I went with one other niji guy up the gondola, and discovered another route that took us all the way to the top with an additional 2 lifts. How did I not discover this before?! The slopes were steep, but believe it or not, it made falling much more fun as we tumbled down carelessly. We tried our hands at the mogules and we stumbled down that one too, barely using the snowboards.
When we got to the bottom I was having a major stomach cramp so I decided to head back early. I was the only one back so I soaked alone in the public bath and it was bliss. Pure bliss. No worrying about other naked bodies in the room.
After that I ate the 7-11 sandwich I bought before I came here for lunch, and lazied around in the comfy futons for around 2 hrs, and my friends joined me for another 2 hours after that. We discovered flappy bird during our futon talks and the rest is history.
Dinner was tonkatsu, siu mai, pasta salad, and this vanilla pudding that we all agreed we wanted seconds and thirds and fourths of. Before going nightboarding we took 30 min off to digest our food.
Once at the slopes, I realized that about half of everyone in that one course were from niji. Everytime I made it to the bottom there would be at least 3 people there that I could ride the lift with. It was so much nicer in the evening. Less people, less snow.
At the end before we left I got ambushed by people in my group and they stuffed snow up my back and pinned me to the ground...the walk back was, needless to say, very uncomfortable.
Looking back, this trip was loads of fun and I wish I could go again next year. Who knows, I might take the plane back to Japan just for the next susuga trip.
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