Day 5. Rest day.

Day 5.

Today was a rest day for me. Heading out to the slopes was not going to do my stomach any good so I headed back to yesterday's lunch spot for a coffee and some food with Rossana and Estelle. They had booked themselves in for some back to back massages at the nearby hotel (Forest I think it was called..??).
While Rossana attended her session, Estelle and I looked through all the souvenir shops and laughed at some of the zany items that had on for sale. Rob, our tour guide even had his own brand of goats cheese on sale in the Visitor Centre shop. When it was time for Estelle's massage, we headed back to the hotel and waited in the bar for Rossana. I sat and read the paper and how about 90 people in Tokyo had been admitted to hospital with injuries from falling on ice on the sidewalk. Apparently the night before there had been a freak weather pattern across Japan which saw 10cm of snow dump where the others were headed, and also a major drop in temperature overnight in the capital. A 67yo woman had broken a wrist and an 80yo man had broken a leg. Ouch.

When all the others got back, we went our for dinner at an okonomyaki joint. There was lots of Japanese pancake making and gyoza eating all around and someone made a paper aeroplane which landed in Amelia's beanie.

Arigato,
Simon.