January 22, 2009

  • Day 2 in Tokyo + Karuizawa

    Day 2, after breakfast in hotel, we rushed to JR station for train to Karuizawa.

    Something happened in between.............. we missed the scheduled 1st train to Omiya.... lucky we caught the next train and got to  Omiya, just on time for the Shinkansen to karuizawa.
     


    Arriving Karuizawa, we went straight to the Prince Hotel wanted to check in earlier. However, room wasn't ready till 3pm, therefore we went for lunch first. The weather was nice. This fireplace is in the lobby of the hotel.
     

    The snow mountain behind the hotel
     

     

    The hotel is more a resort, mainly are these huts for families.
     

    Before we went to lunch,  Mr & Mrs. Ho went shopping, friend B and I were too dull waiting so we decided to shop separately and meet for lunch later. Besides shopping, Friend B and I ate these...And the store.... what's so special about it? You see the logo? You kow what's that?? Is my favorite brand -- OAKLEY~!!!!!!! They got a proper store here in karuizawa~!!!!!! I spent hell lot money here..........................................................
     

    This lake is inside the shopping area.
     

    people dressed like santa were giving out candies.
     

    Lunch at....

    We had ramen.... but too salty.

    After eating      We went back to the resort and checked-in.

     

    Our hut - No. 595.
     

    Laid downn we all felt so tired, so we decided to wait for the night skiing session. When we went out again, the sky went dark. Started snowing.
     

    Got darker....
     

    Let's ski~!! (Or snowboarding)
     

    We only borrowed 1 snowboard since friend B'd never try SB-ing and our sizes are the same, so we shared a board. She's putting it on. The google on her head is new..... from OAKLEY.
     

    Still friend B.

    Mr. Ho  and I.
     

    The snow was so hard...... hurt my knees...............See my jacket? that's new from the OAKLEY Store, too. (the google is from Oakley, too but i bought this in HK)

    After few hrs of snowboarding.........

    We gotta have dinner, and Mrs. Ho would be bored enough waiting for us in the hut.

    Karuizawa at night.
     

     

    We went for 炭火燒. This shop has diff kind og japan famous beef: 佐賀牛, 神戶牛, 松阪牛 and 近江牛. We frist ordered 1 each, and reordered 佐賀牛, 神戶牛, the other 2 were just too fat.
     

    After dinner we walked back to hotel, actually that took 15min walk from hotel to the food street. Whenwe got back to the hotel, it was just 9:xx, so we went to the lobby for some dessert. We sat around the fireplace and had some cake, cheese cake, choco cake, etc.
     

     

    Then we went back to the hut and rest. you see the big OAKLEY bag??

    Checking out the tomorrow.