Enjoyed our time at Rusutsu Resort in Hokkaido. Pkg included breakfast and dinner and we had noodles every day for lunch. We also had a lot of yummy soft serve cones. We bought a four day pass, but actually skied about 3 days since the first day was only the afternoon and one day cut short due to rain - kids went to the pool for that afternoon.


Time for a little break and snack. Hot chocolate, cold Coca Cola and a warm pork bun... Hits the spot!

Didn't take nearly as many photos as last year and only a couple videos on the aim and shoot cam since I didn't carry the video cam with me. The kids did great though - we hit a couple of intermediate runs and some were fairly long.




One of the evenings we had BBQ for dinner and they gave us bibs to wear protect our clothes from splatters.


We stayed for one last night in Sapporo before departing Hokkaido back home. We hit the malls and had a nice dinner with the other two families in our group. Last year there were five families that went to the ski resort and another that joined the city tour. Is this turning into an annual trip?

Uploaded a couple videos to You Tube to try it out...




Snowplowing (aka 'big pizza') to a stop



Can't catch up to Maggie here...



We had one rainy morning where we skiied until soaked, then hit the wavepool, waterslide and onsen; staying soaked the rest of the day!