Day 4: Niseko
Woohoo. Snowboarding. It's been about 5 months since I last hit the slopes, and here we are, back again.
This blog entry was originally going to be Day4-Day13 or something, but I figured... I'll test my memory by seeing if I can remember each day's events. It's also easier, coz there's not many photos taken. Niseko is too cold to take happy snaps.
I do have some video footage of Day 4 (along with other days) but I'm keeping that in the vault until the next music video/dvd comes out.
The day starts nice and early with the crew heading out to Hirafu, or should I say, "The Grand Hirafu" to pick up our lift tickets. KCA (Karina,Cheech,Ari) pick up the 3 week tickets. KCM (Ken,Cherie,Mak) pick up our Bossman special - 10 days.
Aside: I just logged onto the anz.com website to check how much the tickets cost me. There's this chick they got on the front page - I was just trying to work out her nationality. Beats me!
Ok, the tickets cost us about $300 AUD each. If we went the full 10days, that's $30/day for lift passes. That kicks ass. As it turned out, it was closer to $40, but that craps all over bloody Aussie lift pass deals. And you get a Gondola that goes somewhere (as opposed to an 8-seater that goes over 2 slopes), and some chair lifts are hooded. Not a single T-bar in site either. Wicked!
The first impression was ...well.. awesome. Ok, I'll post up a little video to show you some conditions in the late afternoon.
We stopped over for lunch at Hanazono. Shoyu Ramen was my choice, and yeh bro, it was choice! I think it was 8 or 900Y... or less. Not sure, but it was worth it. Wish we could have lunch like this back in Oz........... ok, i'm awake now.
We caught a shuttle service back to our accommodation, changed out, and caught the next bus in towards Kutchan. Emi had told us about a 100Y shop where you can pick up foods from. So KCM went there. KCA went to Max Value (supermarket) to pick up their groceries there.
We were basically buying dinner that we would cook. What we picked up was:
* Udon (for Yaki-udon)
* Soba (for Cold-soba)
* Instant noodles (for tonight, coz we couldn't be *&#$ cooking tonight)
* Chips/Snacks (bloody heaps)
* Something else... sorry - can't remember at the moment.
We also stopped over at Co-Op (Supermarket+Department store) at Kutchan station. They were selling half price Sashima (Tuna). This was about ... 300g for $5 . I can't remember the exact weight, but the offer was too good to refuse, so we bought some :D They had a used-by date of ... tonight!
1.5hrs of shopping later, we met up with KCA again on the bus. On our minds, was what was for dinner. At our bus stop, known as Izumikyo 2, there was this little restaurant there. It looked good, clean, friendly, and importantly - warm! So in we went. They asked us if we wanted western style tables, or japanese style. When in Japan, do as the Japanese do right? We didn't, so we went the Japanese style tables :)
The food was excellent. The Karage Chicken was excellent, and well, I just loved the food. Too bad we can't afford to eat out every night as Niseko is our only chance in our whole trip where we have the opportunity to cook. I didn't take a picture of the place... I don't even know the name. I just know it's a japanese restaurant with a circle sign at Izumikyo 2.
Did I mention how sitting cross legged on the floor eating dinner is not very comfortable? You can probably do it for about 10-15mins, but eventually, you'll (and I mean... guys) resort to sitting with 1 knee up. The meal cost us ... about 4000Y for 3 people (incl drinks of Warm Sake & Coke - guess who had coke!).
Night's were a bit of a blur for me, so I don't remember what happened tonight. We didn't eat the Sashimi.
Till tommorrow friends, adieu!
This blog entry was originally going to be Day4-Day13 or something, but I figured... I'll test my memory by seeing if I can remember each day's events. It's also easier, coz there's not many photos taken. Niseko is too cold to take happy snaps.
I do have some video footage of Day 4 (along with other days) but I'm keeping that in the vault until the next music video/dvd comes out.
The day starts nice and early with the crew heading out to Hirafu, or should I say, "The Grand Hirafu" to pick up our lift tickets. KCA (Karina,Cheech,Ari) pick up the 3 week tickets. KCM (Ken,Cherie,Mak) pick up our Bossman special - 10 days.
Aside: I just logged onto the anz.com website to check how much the tickets cost me. There's this chick they got on the front page - I was just trying to work out her nationality. Beats me!
Ok, the tickets cost us about $300 AUD each. If we went the full 10days, that's $30/day for lift passes. That kicks ass. As it turned out, it was closer to $40, but that craps all over bloody Aussie lift pass deals. And you get a Gondola that goes somewhere (as opposed to an 8-seater that goes over 2 slopes), and some chair lifts are hooded. Not a single T-bar in site either. Wicked!
The first impression was ...well.. awesome. Ok, I'll post up a little video to show you some conditions in the late afternoon.
We stopped over for lunch at Hanazono. Shoyu Ramen was my choice, and yeh bro, it was choice! I think it was 8 or 900Y... or less. Not sure, but it was worth it. Wish we could have lunch like this back in Oz........... ok, i'm awake now.
We caught a shuttle service back to our accommodation, changed out, and caught the next bus in towards Kutchan. Emi had told us about a 100Y shop where you can pick up foods from. So KCM went there. KCA went to Max Value (supermarket) to pick up their groceries there.
We were basically buying dinner that we would cook. What we picked up was:
* Udon (for Yaki-udon)
* Soba (for Cold-soba)
* Instant noodles (for tonight, coz we couldn't be *&#$ cooking tonight)
* Chips/Snacks (bloody heaps)
* Something else... sorry - can't remember at the moment.
We also stopped over at Co-Op (Supermarket+Department store) at Kutchan station. They were selling half price Sashima (Tuna). This was about ... 300g for $5 . I can't remember the exact weight, but the offer was too good to refuse, so we bought some :D They had a used-by date of ... tonight!
1.5hrs of shopping later, we met up with KCA again on the bus. On our minds, was what was for dinner. At our bus stop, known as Izumikyo 2, there was this little restaurant there. It looked good, clean, friendly, and importantly - warm! So in we went. They asked us if we wanted western style tables, or japanese style. When in Japan, do as the Japanese do right? We didn't, so we went the Japanese style tables :)
The food was excellent. The Karage Chicken was excellent, and well, I just loved the food. Too bad we can't afford to eat out every night as Niseko is our only chance in our whole trip where we have the opportunity to cook. I didn't take a picture of the place... I don't even know the name. I just know it's a japanese restaurant with a circle sign at Izumikyo 2.
Did I mention how sitting cross legged on the floor eating dinner is not very comfortable? You can probably do it for about 10-15mins, but eventually, you'll (and I mean... guys) resort to sitting with 1 knee up. The meal cost us ... about 4000Y for 3 people (incl drinks of Warm Sake & Coke - guess who had coke!).
Night's were a bit of a blur for me, so I don't remember what happened tonight. We didn't eat the Sashimi.
Till tommorrow friends, adieu!
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