Himmel och pannkaka!

It was lovely weather today and we made our own snow bar on the terrace. So next Saturday we're going to have a BBQ on the deck and serve beers from the bar we made..

For Whitney Houston..

Whitney Houston has sadly passed away today.. This is for her! 

After skiing while clearing the snow from the terrace we turned the stereo on and this song first came on.. At the same time Ashleigh told us that she just passed away. It was just like it was meant to be a tribute for her.. 

Happy days!

Good morning-noon-night where ever you are in the world!

I'm so tired right now that i can barely keep my eyes open.. Todays back country tour have been awesome! I met up with Andre this morning and we took the bus to Tsugaike, a ski resort 20 minutes from Happo one, to go hiking there since the conditions on our mountain isn't the best for back country skiing right now.. We took the gondola up and started our journey out from the ski resort, pretty tiring but the snow was just amazing! In the end we found some fun terrain with beautiful trees, from there we skied down and hiked up a couple of times! 

Digging a snowpit to look at the different layers of snow..

We found a DEEP whole in the middle of nowhere. 

Andre is breaking trail..

Tokyo & Seoul update!

I'm back on track! Back in Japan, back in a Hakuba after an intense trip to South Korea. It feels good to be back but it was actually nice to get out of the ski-resort-bubble for a while and see something else. Felt so weird though as soon as the snow disappeared on the way down to Tokyo.. 

So i spent Saturday night in Tokyo with Jen and Luke. I met up with Jen in the afternoon and we went to Harajuku, a very nice area of Tokyo, to have a little wander around.. We went for dinner at the cutest thai restaurant and then went home to their place to get change and get ready to get out. We went out for a second dinner before we met up with Luke and Jens' working mates at 12am in Shibuya. After a long night in Shibuya, you know the area of Tokyo with the crazy crossing, we took the metro train back home at 5.15 in the morning and WE ALL FELL ASLEEP ON THE TRAIN!!! Luke woke up " Jen, Sofia, we need to get off!!!" and when we got of we realized that it was 6.30am... And the ride back to their place would take us 15 minutes which means that we went AN HOUR to far. We were so far out in the suburb of Tokyo... I'm still laughing when i'm thinking about it!!

Harajuku

Yummy thai dinner!

After we realized that we've been going an hour to far on the metro..

My flight to Seoul was not till later on Sunday so i got some sleep in before i went to the airport. When i got to Seoul i took the bus in to the city, got dropped in an area which felt like the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night and couldn't find my hotel. Korean people are definitely not as friendly as the japanese when it comes to helping-you-find-the-way.. I went in to the few, dodgy restaurants that still was open but the literally just stared at me like i didn't existed... Later on i found a taxi with a 60 year old very nice little man in it, he could speak a tiny bit of english, called my hotel and drove me their. I was SO grateful!

My new cute korean friend.

I'm not tall, she's just VEEEERY short!

Yum!

Seoul tower.

The rest of my trip in Seoul was actually very nice! The next day i went to a palace which was really exciting, met some funny people and an old korean man who walked me around the palace and insisted to take like hundred of photos of me all around the palace with my camera. Later on in the afternoon i met up with Dooul, a guy that i lived with in Whistler the first month i lived there. We went to a few different areas , had a real korean BBQ and then we went to the tower of Seoul. The day after i flew back to Tokyo, took the bus up to Hakuba and here i am...

Tomorrow i'm off for some back country skiing at Tsugaike with Andre, i've been craving for hiking!!!

Tjingeling!

Off to South Korea.

Forgot, i'm going to South Korea on Sunday night, exciting!!! But i'm going down to Tokyo tomorrow to spend the night and Sunday with Jen and Luke. So no skiing for me the next couple of days... But there's no big snowfalls expected from what i can see on the snow forecast and i think my legs need a proper rest. Back in Hakuba late on Tuesday night, ready for the next snowstorm and lots of powder days!!!

Jag lever!

I haven't had time to write.. Or i've had time, but no energy for writing. All my energy goes into skiing at the moment. I've had so many amazing days on the mountain lately, so happy!!! Yesterday we were a crew with seven skiers and three boarders, skiing amazing tree lines!! And my tailbone is finally, after a couple of acupuncture sessions, getting better and i can enjoy skiing again!

A picture from yesterday, coming down Sakka trees.