New Year Eve 2023

It's been a great year 2023 after all despite all ups and downs, however we are pleased to celebrate our wins in 2023 with this last meal at Hai Di Lao with our close family.

Au revoir 2023, thank you for the life lessons and experiences !

Magical White Xmas - Japan trip (day 13)

The holiday is almost over, we spent the last night at Narita Airport hotel and we had Japanese style family room. As we were so tired from the whole day skiing and sledding we decided to have cup noodles for dinner while waiting for our laundry and packing.

It's time to say goodbye for now to Japan but we will come back again for sure in the future.

It's such a great and fun holiday, all of us have a great time there.

Magical White Xmas - Japan trip (day 12)

It's our last day at Yuzawa ski resort and we didn't want to waste our snow link pass thus hubby and our first born son decided to ski to conquer 3 mountains unknowingly the area.

We went to Yuzawa Kogen in the morning when it just opened and it's quiet peaceful as only few people there. While both of them were skiing, I accompanied two other boys for playing at snow land park sledding.

Around 10 am, we moved to Gala Yuzawa resort to try their ski courses and snow land park, it's very crowded with tourists and they had smaller snow land park so we decided to play there building snowman and sledding while hubby and Richie skiing.

Unfortunately they took wrong courses and went to intermediate route. It's very challenging for both of them, thanks God they could come back to the base camp safe and sound with bruises.

Meanwhile, I and the other two boys moved to other mountain and riding their gondola to the top but it seems that these mountain was designed specifically for professional skiers and snowboarders so we decided to go down and went back to Yuzawa Kogen to spend the rest of the time before our train departures.

Around 3.30pm, we went to train station as our train departed at 3.44pm bound to Narita as our last stop and night there before returning back to Singapore the next day.

 

Magical White Xmas - Japan trip (day 11)

It's skiing and sledding time !

We bought 2 days snow link passes for 3 mountains without knowing that we can't even ski haha. It costs us around SGD 600 and after that we just realised that we should not buy that passes because we even won't do ski on those slopes. It is what it is, a really good lesson learnt.

In the end, hubby and the kids took 1.5 hrs of ski lesson in the afternoon. Prior to that we played sledding and tried ski ourselves.

As we spent so much energy there and it's pretty cold due to wind and cloudy day, we decided to have soba and sake for dinner at Train station.

 

Magical White Xmas - Japan trip (day 10)

We fall in love with the beauty of Kanazawa so we decided to spend half day strolling around Higashi Chaya district or famous for Geisha town. There are Japanese traditional houses with a lot of tea house where Geisha or Maiko entertained the guests.

We also tasted the infamous golden leaves ice cream as Kanazawa produce many things from gold.

After that we took train to Yuzawa ski resort and took us around 3 hours and reaching there around 4 pm.

We stayed at Japanese room style and slept atop Futon, it's kinda new experience for us so we took Yukata and had family pictures before going for onsen. It felt so good onsen and enjoying fresh cold air and snow.

Then we had simple dinner at nearby restaurant - a bowl of warm ramen and gyoza.